“Woman came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda, it suddenly hit me. I saw what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms. Any truth is universal. If we’d made our album in the third person and called it Freda and Ada or Tommy and had dressed up in clown suits with lipstick and created characters other than us, maybe a Ziggy Stardust, would it be more acceptable? It’s not our style of art; our life is our art…
Anyway, in Bermuda, what suddenly dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as I whisper at the beginning of the song. And it just sort of hit me like a flood, and it came out like that. The song reminds me of a Beatles track, but I wasn’t trying to make it sound like that. I did it as I did Girl many years ago. So this is the grown-up version of Girl.”
John Lennon, 1980
Rolling Stone
John explaining his inspiration for his song WOMAN
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Robbie’s Commentary
WOMAN was recorded for the Double Fantasy album, and was also his first posthumous single
I love that John wrote WOMAN as an almost anthemic song to feminism and to ALL the women in the world
To me it shows that whatever anyone’s feelings for Yoko, she was THE right woman for him
His lover, wife and soul mate who, in the end helped him to change his earlier views on the way he perceived women in his life
Compare lyrically Run For Your Life or You Can’t Do That to WOMAN and it’s obvious that his whole mindset had changed infinitely for the better
That whispered opening ‘The other half of the sky’ says it all
