10 Best Final Albums In Rock
3. Double Fantasy - John Lennon
John Lennon had spent the last years of the 70's laying musically dormant. After golden songs like "Imagine" and "Power to the People," Lennon had started to experience turmoil in his personal life and decided to leave the rock and roll lifestyle. Instead of writing songs, Lennon was content to stay at home and raise his son Sean.
After a 5-year silence, John began to write songs after a boating trip to Bermuda which reflected his happy life at home. When he returned to New York, Lennon decided to record these songs and create a collaborative album with his wife Yoko Ono. As such, Double Fantasy shows Lennon free from his political and social troubles and living a life of domestic bliss. We see Lennon at his most heartfelt throughout the record on the odes to his son "Beautiful Boy" and a love letter to Yoko on "Woman."
Tragically, Lennon would be killed by a deranged fan just months after the album's release, leaving this to be his unintended goodbye to the fans. Rather than reliving his gruesome murder, Lennon fans have Double Fantasy as an look at John Lennon at one of the happiest chapters of his life.