McCartney Times

‘#9 Dream’ is the one song that stands above the rest on John Lennon’s fifth studio album, Walls and Bridges, comparing favourably with the very best of his solo compositions. The entire record was the product of Lennon’s infamous “Lost Weekend” in Los Angeles during the summer of 1974, a time when he shacked up with Yoko Ono’s secretary May Pang and went out on the town with Harry Nilsson.The song features one of the Beatle’s former signature songwriting motifs, modulation down from a major scale with a minor-key chord mid-verse, which is accentuated by his use of a string arrangement. But it’s the chorus that really takes a leap into the otherworldly, as the key jumps up three whole tones and Lennon begins singing in a language foreign to our ears.

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