October 29, 1973 –
John Lennon’s fourth solo album, Mind Games, was released by Apple, on this date.
The single Mind Games was the only single released from the album, which was a modest success but nowhere near as popular as his Beatles output. This song has held up well, getting significant airplay on a variety of radio formats. In a 1998 interview with Uncut, Yoko Ono posited that the song may have been ahead of its time. “I think that people didn’t quite get the message because this was again before its time,” she said. “Now, people would understand it. I don’t think in those days people knew that they were playing mind games anyway.”
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