JOHN LENNON – WALLS AND BRIDGES LP – Nr MINT UK APPLE BEATLES

John Lennon – Walls And Bridges
(Apple Records  1980  PCTC253)
UK Pressing

G&L Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– small sticker on back cover top right under tracklisting
Round Cornered Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Booklet in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are 1 or 2 surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles.

Walls and Bridges is the fifth studio album by John Lennon, issued by Apple Records, on 26 September 1974 in the United States and on 4 October in the United Kingdom.

Track listing

All songs were written by John Lennon, except where noted.

Side one

1. “Going Down on Love” – 3:54
2. “Whatever Gets You thru the Night” – 3:28
3. “Old Dirt Road” (Lennon, Harry Nilsson) – 4:11
4. “What You Got” – 3:09
5. “Bless You” – 4:38
6. “Scared” – 4:36

Side two

7. “#9 Dream” – 4:47
8. “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” – 2:55
9. “Steel and Glass” – 4:37
10. “Beef Jerky” – 3:26
11. “Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down and Out)” – 5:08
12. “Ya Ya” (Morgan Robinson, Lee Dorsey, Clarence Lewis, Morris Levy) – 1:06

Personnel

• John Lennon – arrangements, vocals (lead, harmony, and background), lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, whistling, percussion, production

Plastic Ono Nuclear Band

• Ken Ascher – electric piano, clavinet, Mellotron
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Arthur Jenkins – percussion
• Nicky Hopkins – piano
• Klaus Voormann – bass
• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone
• Ron Aprea – tenor saxophone
• Jesse Ed Davis – acoustic guitar, lead guitar
• Eddie Mottau – acoustic guitar

Additional personnel

• Strings and brass musicians from The Philharmonic Orchestrange – arranged and conducted by Ken Ascher.
• Little Big Horns – Ron Aprea (alto saxophone), Bobby Keys (tenor saxophone), Frank Vicari (tenor saxophone), Howard Johnson (baritone and bass saxophone) and Steve Madaio (trumpet).
• Julian Lennon – drums on “Ya Ya”.
• Elton John – piano and harmony vocals on “Whatever Gets you thru the Night” and Hammond organ and background vocals on “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)”
• Harry Nilsson – backing vocals on “Old Dirt Road”.
• The 44th Street Fairies: Joey Dambra, Lori Burton and May Pang – background vocals on “#9 Dream”.
• Shelly Yakus – engineer
• Jimmy Iovine – overdub engineer
• Roy Cicala – remix engineer
• May Pang – production coordinator
• Roy Kohara – art direction
• Bob Gruen – photography