THIS IS A MINT MINUS TEST PRESSING OF Every Man Has a Woman. The album covers Yoko Ono's songs from Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), Double Fantasy (1980), Season of Glass (1981), and It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982). The album was one of John Lennon's projects, but he died before he could see its completion. After John's murder Elliot Mintz and Samuel Havadtoy completed his work. John appears on the first track side one, singing and playing guitar and keyboards. He also played guitar on "Now Or Never".


Each song is a masterpiece and John Lennon did a brilliant job producing it. The songs were written to reflect stages in Yoko's relationship with John and they are incredibly powerful. The performances by familiar and famous artists take these songs to an exciting level. Because it was the last album John worked on before he died, it makes this album all the more poignant and valuable. The title comes from the song John performs on: "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him". It's achingly beautiful. This album is no longer widely available. 


Track listing

1 "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" – 3:32 - John Lennon

2 "Silver Horse" – 3:07 - Harry Nilsson

3 "I'm Moving On" – 2:47 - Eddie Money

4 "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" – 3:23 - Rosanne Cash

5 "Dogtown" – 3:26 - Alternating Boxes

6 "Goodbye Sadness" – 3:22 - Roberta Flack

7 "Walking on Thin Ice" – 3:46 -

8 "Wake Up" – 2:22 - Trio

9 "Dream Love" – 3:46 - Harry Nilsson

10 "Now or Never" – 3:44 - Spirit Choir

11 "Loneliness" – 3:42 - Harry Nilsson

12 "It's Alright" – 2:27 - Sean Lennon


Singles

• "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" (John Lennon) / "It's Alright" (Sean Lennon) (7")

• "Silver Horse" / "Dream Love" (Harry Nilsson) (7")

• "Loneliness" (Harry Nilsson) (7")

• "Dogtown" (Alternating Boxes) (12")


Along with "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine," "Walking on Thin Ice" holds a vaunted place among the collaborative works of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Indeed, it would be the final, poignant act in the story of their remarkable artistic association.

"Walking on Thin Ice" was originally attempted during Lennon and Ono's August 1980 recording sessions at the Hit Factory. Recorded in seven takes, the song featured some wicked guitar runs from Earl Slick, backed by Tony Levin's galloping bass and Yoko's dance-club vocal turn.

When Yoko and the group finished the last take, John couldn't wait for her to join him in the control booth for the playback. After they listened to the most recent run-through, John couldn't contain himself any longer. "I think you just cut your first number one, Yoko," he announced, borrowing the phraseology, if not the intuition, of George Martin's proclamation to the Beatles nearly 18 years earlier. On that day back in November 1962 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, Martin activated the studio PA and announced, "Gentlemen, you've just made your first number-one record" after witnessing the band's performance of "Please Please Me."

On Thursday, December 4, John enjoyed one of the finest moments of his storied career when he overdubbed a sizzling guitar part onto "Walking on Thin Ice." When it came to the guitar that John used, Jack didn't have any doubt about the instrument's identity. "It was the Capri," he recalled, referring to John's fabled 1958 Rickenbacker 325, the very instrument that Lennon had played on "The Ed Sullivan Show" back in February 1964. For the solo, John simply wailed on the guitar, executing a series of power chords as Douglas, sitting nearby, reached over and worked the instrument's Bigsby tailpiece. As with a whammy bar, the Bigsby tremolo arm allowed the producer to manipulate the vibrato sound and heighten the eerie ambience they had been creating for "Walking on Thin Ice" (author's interview with Douglas, August 2018). By Monday, December 8, the song had evolved into a discothèque-friendly six-minute opus, complete with Yoko's eerie vocal sound effects, spoken-word poem, and Lennon's seering guitar solo. John was ecstatic as he listened to the mix in all of its glory.  After listening to the latest mix with record executive David Geffen, the couple agreed to release it after the Christmas holidays.

As history well knows, John wouldn't live to see the song's 1981 release. But as he had predicted, "Walking on Thin Ice" eventually topped the charts. Following through on the couple's plans, Yoko released the single in February 1981. In its initial pass at the Billboard charts, "Walking on Thin Ice' landed a number-58 showing. But even more impressively, it fell into heavy rotation in the dance clubs. But the song's fate hadn't been sealed just yet. In the new century, "Walking on Thin Ice" enjoyed new life through a series of dance club remixes and cover versions by the likes of the Pet Shop Boys. And in 2003, John's prophecy came true when the track notched the number-one spot on the US Hot Dance Club charts.


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