Milk and Honey (musical) for a project about Israel he hoped to mount on Broadway. He sent Herman and Appell there to absorb the culture and hopefully find inspiration. Herman was determined that the musical not be a patriotic love letter. Herman said: “We were there to soak up the atmosphere...Once we saw this group of little old lady tourists rummaging about, we knew that they had to be in our show.” Herman explained that "Everything about this place is not perfect. I had already written the song called "Milk and Honey" as a kind of an anthem, and I said, ... 'I have
Milk and Honey (album) call the next album Milk and Honey." The cover is an alternative take from the same photo session that produced the front cover of "Double Fantasy", though this time it appears in color. After a falling out with David Geffen, whose Geffen Records had initially released "Double Fantasy", Ono moved future projects to Polydor Records, which initially released "Milk and Honey". EMI, home of Lennon's entire recorded output—including that with the Beatles—acquired this and all Lennon releases in the late 1990s. Predictably, the reaction to "Milk and Honey" was less fanatical than the one that greeted "Double Fantasy", but it