Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
"Going Down on Love" – 3:54
"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" – 3:28
"Old Dirt Road" (Lennon, Harry Nilsson) – 4:11
"What You Got" – 3:09
"Bless You" – 4:38
"Scared" – 4:36
Side two
"#9 Dream" – 4:47
"Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" – 2:55
"Steel and Glass" – 4:37
"Beef Jerky" – 3:26
"Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" – 5:08
"Ya Ya" (Lee Dorsey, Clarence Lewis, Morgan Robinson, Morris Levy) – 1:06
2005 bonus tracks
"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" – 4:23
Live with the Elton John band
"Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" – 5:07
Alternative version
"John Interview (by Bob Mercer)" – 3:47
John Lennon Band Members / Musicians
John Lennon – arrangements, lead, harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, piano, whistling, percussion, production
Ken Ascher – piano, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, mellotron
Jim Keltner – drums
Arthur Jenkins – percussion
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Klaus Voormann – bass guitar
Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone
Jesse Ed Davis – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
Eddie Mottau – acoustic guitar
Strings and brass musicians from The Philharmonic Orchestrange – arranged and conducted by Ken Ascher
Little Big Horns – Ron Aprea (alto saxophone), Bobby Keys (tenor saxophone), Frank Vicari (tenor saxophone), Howard Johnson (baritone saxophone), Steve Madaio (trumpet)
Julian Lennon – drums on "Ya Ya"
Elton John – piano and harmony vocals on "Whatever Gets you thru the Night", Hammond organ and background vocals on "Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)"
Harry Nilsson – backing vocals on "Old Dirt Road"
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he 44th Street Fairies: Joey Dambra, Lori Burton and May Pang – background vocals on "#9 Dream"
Shelly Yakus – engineer
Jimmy Iovine – overdub engineer
Roy Cicala – remix engineer
May Pang – production coordinator
Roy Kohara – art direction
Bob Gruen – photography
Walls and Bridges is the 5th studio album by English musician John Lennon. It was issued by Apple Records on 26 September 1974 in the United States and on 4 October in the United Kingdom. Written, recorded and released during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono, the album captured Lennon in the midst of his "Lost Weekend". Walls and Bridges was an American number-one album on both the Billboard and Record World charts and included two hit singles, "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" and "#9 Dream". The first of these was Lennon's first number-one hit in the United States as a solo artist, and his only solo chart-topping single in either the US or Britain during his lifetime.
The album was certified silver in the UK, and gold in the US.
