Woman is a soft rock ballad by John Lennon from his 1980 album Double Fantasy. It was released as the album's second single on January 12, 1981 - the first Lennon single issued after his murder on December 8, 1980. The B-side is Yoko Ono's "Beautiful Boys". Lennon wrote it as an ode to Ono and to all women, and the song opens with the whispered line "For the other half of the sky" - a nod to a Chinese proverb used by Mao Zedong. In a Rolling Stone interview, Lennon called it his most Beatlesque song on Double Fantasy and a grown-up version of "Girl". The track runs 3:32, belongs to the soft rock genre, and was issued on Geffen. It reached number one in the UK for two weeks, peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, and topped charts in several other countries. A promotional film directed by Ethan Russell features Lennon and Ono in Central Park near Strawberry Fields. Geffen re-released the single in June 1981 as part of the Back to Back Hits series with the B-side "(Just Like) Starting Over".
