John Lennon After The Beatles

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I have been listening to a number of different John Lennon tracks, ones he made as a solo artist and I have come up with the following observations. Even though John wrote great songs after the Beatles, he didn't do a very good job in presenting and producing them, until his last 2 albums. I personally, don't like the way his voice sounded on a lot of his recordings. It was almost too high and weak sounding. Whether that was John and/or Yoko (John apparently didn't like the sounds of his natural voice) or whether it was Phil Spector, I don't know. I think with the Beatles, John(as was Paul) had to work with the others in the band and subsequently, the Beatles would more often than not create unique sounds as well trying to write/play a song differently, where as a solo artist, it often appears to me that John just went into the studio and recorded the song with acoustic guitar and then session musicians were brought in to help finish off the albums. I wonder if John really didn't care at that stage or what, but, it does seem a shame that so many of his great songs end up sounding like he is singing to a backup band at a disney theme park. Anyway, that my thoughts, anyone think the same?