There is obviously a great deal of love and feeling poured into this record and there is only one thing preventing it from being an excellent album - Yoko Ono. Sadly Ono has little musical talent and a supremely dreadful voice that turns virtually all her tracks into a serious whine. Lennon, on the other hand, was at his songwriting best here with excellent songs such as "Just Like Starting Over", "Watching the Wheels," and "Woman". If only this had been a solo album with just Lennon's material. If only.

If ever there was evidence that Lennon veered between the exceptional and the appalling this is it. This compilation - and there is no doubt that apart from Working Class Hero which is omitted, this is the best known music of the ex-Beatle. It shows Lennon to be a complete enigma capable of blindingly beautiful music such as "Imagine", "Love" and "Jealous Guy" but also capable of dross such as Instant Karma and Cold Turkey. Lennon was always interesting, however, flying in the face of opinion. Maybe it is in this light that we should now look at his outpourings.