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“Woman” is a song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1980 album Double Fantasy. Written by Lennon, it is an ode to “his wife Yoko Ono and to all women”. The track begins with Lennon whispering, “For the other half of the sky ...“, a paraphrase of a Chinese proverb, once used by Mao Zedong. In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine on 5 December 1980, Lennon said that “Woman” was a “grown-up version” of the song “Girl”. In 1965, Lennon’s then-songwriting partner and fellow Beatle band mate, Paul McCartney, had written a different song entitled “Woman” for Peter & Gordon using a pseudonym. Thus, both Lennon and McCartney have individual credit for writing different songs with the same title. “Woman” was the second single released from the... Read on...