Here’s an album that people probably scoff at due to the ubiquity of its title cut. True, it’s a little hard to listen to that song and not think of sunburnt tourists on 72nd St., but what about “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama,” “Gimme Some Truth” and “How Do You Sleep?” There is a liberation here in the songwriting and some of these tracks just cook. The special ingredient is the new band: Klaus Voorman on bass; Alan White, Jim Keltner or Jim Gordon on drums; and, oddly, George Harrison on guitar. From an instrumentalist’s point of view — the best band every to back Lennon up.
