John Lennon

             JOHN LENNON

John Lennon, Walls And Bridges,

Apple SW-3416.

     This album is nice. It sets on you like a light buzZ and doesn't interfere with your digestion. There's no screaming, no apologies to Yoko, no songs about his mother. No excesses.

     Not much else either. Oh. there's Elton John on a cut called -'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night". That would make a nice single. There's Nilsson who co-wrote the album's most interesting piece, "Old Dirt Road". There's Howard Johnson contributing a really fine baritone sax solo on "I'm Scared". There's the same old crew of Keltner, Hopkins and Voorman (Are you getting as tired of Snakey Jim Keltner's drum work as I am?).

     There's a lot here. There's not much of Lennon, though. Oh, I like "Bless You", his most beautiful song since "Jealous Guy". And 1 like the instrumental "Beef Jerky". In fact I like this album taken on the whole. more than the last two Imagine and Mind Games combined; and there are no throw-up sick cuts as there were on the brilliantly flawed Plastic Ono album. There are no turkeys here, no stars. Lennon is obviously in the process of binding up the wounds he had been showing up to now, and the result is an even, solid LP with no brilliance at all. John Lennon says he's "Scared" on one cut. It's true. but at least he's stopped bleeding.