Recording
Ono approached producer Jack Douglas, with whom both Lennon and she had worked before, and gave him Lennon's demos to listen to. “My immediate impressions were that I was going to have a hard time making it better than the demos because there was such intimacy in the demos,” Douglas told Uncut's Chris Hunt in 2005.
They produced dozens of songs, enough to fill Double Fantasy and a large part of a projected second album, Milk and Honey.
Douglas brought Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of the band Cheap Trick to play on Lennon's "I'm Losing You" and Ono's "I'm Moving On", but they were eventually re-recorded with the studio musicians. (The Cheap Trick version of "I'm Losing You" was included on the John Lennon Anthology collection released in 1998.)
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