John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album

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This is how side A of the Wedding Album begins and ends, expressed in various sensations and tones. John and Yoko calling each other with love, John and Yoko calling each other with surprise, John and Yoko calling each other with sadness, John and Yoko calling each other with suffering, sometimes even with anger...

And here some questions spontaneously arise... is this a case of talking about art? Art means going beyond the norms, right? Evolving and surpassing one's own boundaries. After all, no one had ever created anything like it before. And can this art spring from the complete love between a man and a woman, who love each other and form a single identity? And above all, don't they get tired of calling each other for 22 minutes and 43 seconds straight?

But let's continue, let's lift the turntable needle and start with side B. Amsterdam.

And the intro is already a whole program: Yoko Ono intones in a Gregorian chant style "let's hope for peace" and similar clumsy warbles for a good 5 minutes, while the other 21 minutes are interviews and recordings regarding the couple's historic stay at the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam. Beautiful. Wonderful to hear John and his spouse talk (it's more her talking, eh, with her fine big mouth, maybe slightly intriguing? Maaaybeeee I don't know....). I mean, isn't it crazy to hear John and Yoko discussing peace, John and Yoko analyzing the world's situation in 1969, John and Yoko discussing breakfast, (two hot teas and whole-wheat toast) or even John and Yoko speaking Dutch (Dank Uw Wel...Translation: thank you thank you). Really fantastic, and interesting, even if I think no one has ever managed to reach the end of the "track" for the second time (if you have... let me know!) Oh yes, it's really the case to say, Goodbye Amsterdam!

But could it be that since John was a former Beatle, the very essence of music history, he thought the public would accept anything from him? I really think so, and I think many have thought just that.

But in the end, what do you expect? The title itself says it: Wedding Album. This product is nothing more than the spiritual wedding ring exchanged by the two tender lovers.

I adore John. Yoko a bit less. And above all, I still haven't figured out if I consider this album an absolute flop or an unrecognized masterpiece. But remember, behind anything, even the simplest thing that seems random, there is something deep with its own reason. And so does the Wedding Album have its own reason.