I chose 1981 music as my theme this year. My newest novel The Summer of Princess Diana is set in the summer of 1981, and oh! the music! Let’s take a look back at a pivotal time in the music industry.
I started this series with George Harrison, singing about John Lennon. And here is John Lennon, who died so tragically and prematurely in December 1980. “Woman” was released in January 1981 from his 1980 album Double Fantasy, and was the first single to be released after his murder.
In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine on December 5, 1980, three days before his murder, Lennon said that the song “came about because…it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms… but any truth is universal. What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as I whisper at the beginning of the song. It’s a ‘we’ or it ain’t anything.”
Yoko Ono created this poignant video.
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Its warm. 😀
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Wonderful song. I remember that day in December 1980. Such a sad day.
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Love the song and the video, too!
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Who knew that a man singing about Peace, Love, and Understanding would make some people so mad???
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Oh, ZD you’re so right
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I really love all the singles from Double Fantasy. Really makes me sad that John Lennon didn’t get to move on to the next phase as an artist.
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Me too. This video by Yoko is simply gorgeous and heartbreaking.
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Great ‘W’ song. Enduring and poignant.
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He was nailing it during this period. This is a good one. Great album. What a waste that he died so stinking young.
My favorite from his last output, I believe released only as a single, is “Nobody Told Me.” The first time I saw the video, with lots of home movies of him, Yoko, and Sean, was right after he died. I was reduced to blubbering in tears. It still gets me every time I hear it.
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I was a kid at that time but I love the music.
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That’s a great one. I don’t know what I was doing during that decade, but my memories of the music are not as sharp as yours. Thanks for this retrospective. Now for X, Y, and Z!
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Love this one too!
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Hari OM
Oh yes, I remember this… I wouldn’t have without your wonderful series, though! YAM xx
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Yamini 💕💕💕💕
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