John Lennon completes ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’ for ‘Double Fantasy’ album 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 27 1980)


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(Saturday, September 27, 1980, session started at 4:00 p.m. EDT; during sessions for Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey) — Former Beatle John Lennon, who returned to the recording studio last month after a five-year absence for what would turn out to be his final studio albums, Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey (both with his wife, Yoko Ono), completed “(Just Like) Starting Over” today, recording the wishing bell that opens the track at the Record Plant studio in New York City.


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“(Just Like) Starting Over” would become the first single released from Double Fantasy and the first new recording Lennon would release since he leaving the music industry in 1975.


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