When was mind games written

In het lied komt het fragment Yes is the answer voor, een hint naar zijn vrouw Yoko Ono. Het nummer is opgenomen in de periode dat Lennon een verhouding had met May Pang. Ono heeft wel weer een rol in de videoclip. Het nummer is door een aantal andere artiesten opgenomen, meestal als eerbetoon aan Lennon of bij ondersteuningsacties voor Amnesty International. De covers werden nergens een hit. Mind Games October en.

In the ensuing year he uncharacteristically spent little time composing and he also, starting in early , began to distance himself from the political activities that had brought so much unwanted attention from both the US Immigration Service and the FBI. Listen to Mind Games now. So drunk that he took a woman into one of the bedrooms and had sex with her. Yoko and the other partygoers were in an adjoining room and heard it all. But I thought I would endure all that for our love.

John liked what he heard and asked Roy to book the same musicians so that he could start recording again; notably guitarist David Spinozza, keyboard player Ken Ascher and drummer Jim Keltner. I was so paranoid from them tapping the phone and following me. It became the only single to be released from the album. On a personal level, his marriage to Yoko Ono had entered the infamous month rocky patch later referred to as his "Lost Weekend.

They were trying times, to say the least; as Lennon later told biographer David Sheff, "Well, first I thought, 'Whoopee! Bachelor life! Whoopee, whoopee! I want to go home. In hindsight, it's unsurprising that all this tumult helped produce one of Lennon's safest sets of songs — odes to peace and domesticity whose arrangements lacked the dark, yearning edge of his earlier work. Ironically, the same critics who blasted Some Time in New York City for its heavy-handed leftist bent were also less than satisfied with Mind Games.

I've done the latter.