(Just Like) Starting Over
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| Single by John Lennon | ||||||||||||
| from the album Double Fantasy | ||||||||||||
| B-side | "Kiss Kiss Kiss" (Yoko Ono) | |||||||||||
| Released | 24 October 1980 | |||||||||||
| Format | 7-inch 45 rpm | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||||||||||
| Genre | Rock, pop rock | |||||||||||
| Length | 3:54 | |||||||||||
| Label | Geffen | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | John Lennon | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas | |||||||||||
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"(Just Like) Starting Over" is a song written and performed by John Lennon for his album, Double Fantasy. The B-side was Yoko Ono's "Kiss Kiss Kiss". It was released as a single on 24 October 1980 in the United Kingdom and three days later in the United States, and it reached number one in both the US and UK after Lennon was murdered. In 2013, Billboard Magazine ranked it as the 62nd biggest song of all-time on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
This was the first single released from Double Fantasy, and the first new recording Lennon had released since 1975. It was chosen by Lennon not because he felt it was the best track on the album, but because it was the most appropriate following his five-year absence from the recording industry. He referred to it during production as the "Elvis/Orbison" track, as he "tongue in cheek" impersonated their vocal styles; at the start of the 2010 "Stripped Down" version of the song, Lennon says "this one's for Gene, and Eddie, and Elvis... and Buddy."
Although its origins were in unfinished demo compositions like "Don’t Be Crazy" and "My Life", it was one of the last songs to be completed in time for the Double Fantasy sessions. “We didn’t hear it until the last day of rehearsal,” producer Jack Douglas said in 2005. Lennon finished the song while on holiday in Bermuda, and recorded it at The Hit Factory in New York City just weeks later. The original title was to be "Starting Over". "(Just Like)" was added at the last minute because a country song of the same title had recently been released by Tammy Wynette. While commercial releases of the song (original 45rpm singles, LP's and Compact Discs) run a length of three minutes and 54 seconds, a promotional 12" vinyl single originally issued to radio stations features a longer fadeout, officially running at four minutes and 17 seconds. This version is highly sought by collectors.
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