10 Perfect Albums That Artists Don't Want To Talk About

Going through something as crazy as the Beatles' success would have been enough to leave any sane man in shambles. The idea of being known by everyone around was going to have some drawbacks, and every one of the Fab Four approached their fame in a new way once they broke up at the start of the '70s. While John Lennon was free to do whatever he wanted, he was going through Hell on the inside.

After working with a therapist and undergoing primal scream therapy, Plastic Ono Band was the first step for Lennon to heal after going through his adulthood, dissecting every piece of his personality and seeing how he could move on from his demons. Although the witty Lennon does show up on here in songs like Working Class Hero, the sparseness of the production left him much more vulnerable than before, with songs like Mother tapping into his abandonment issues and Love being a glimpse of hope that he had now that he finally found a companion in Yoko Ono.

Though Lennon probably never wanted to be in this kind of headspace again, there were even a few Beatles fans that couldn't take hearing some of these things on a record, from Lennon full on screaming on songs like Well Well Well to denouncing the myth of what the Beatles stood for on the song God. The '60s may have been the one time where everything seemed possible, but this was a new decade, and it took one of the musical leaders to tell us that the dream was over.