Love

Today's song is a ballad called "Love". It begins very quietly in the original album version, with Phil Spector on piano, and John singing and playing acoustic guitar. It was also re-released on The John Lennon Collection in 1982, two years after his death.

It's another minimalist tune, featuring only two instruments and Lennon's vocals. The lyrics kind of remind me of the cheesy bible verse everyone quotes at weddings (you know the one); however, while they're simple, they aren't simplistic. Lennon delivers a powerful message with only a handful of lines and a nice melody. That's pretty impressive, whichever way you care to look at it, and it was one of his greatest talents--brevity.

One last interesting fact is from Wikipedia: "The picture on the sleeve for 1982 release of 'Love' was taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980—the very day of Lennon's murder."

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