John Lennon - Walls and Bridges (iTunes)

One of the things solo Lennon fans have all spent a lot of time thinking about, at one time or another, is what type of music he would have made throughout the 80s, 90s and today, had it all not been so brutally cut short. Perhaps the two most overlooked pointers to the answer are Walls and Bridges and Mind Games, two classic albums recorded as he surfed the wave of New York life and – briefly – that of a single man in the mid-70s. But what’s been done to Walls and Bridges on iTunes is an abomination: for starters the original sleeve has been replaced by the photo used for the 2005 remaster. But that seems like nothing when you read the official write up Apple has given the album. You wonder if they really are trying to preserve and promote Lennon’s legacy when they describe Walls and Bridges as “decidedly uneven… containing too much mediocre material… weighed down by weak melodies… heavy over production…” Incredible!