Lennon left The Beatles in 1970. That same year he released the ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ album, which he recorded with his Japanese wife Yoko Ono. His album ‘Imagine’ followed in 1971. The title song became an anthem for anti-war movements. More classic albums followed. On 8th ...
Those sessions were much happier ones. Stuart got on with Paul really well. Once again, I got to work with a former Beatles engineer, this time Phil McDonald, who’d worked on ‘The White Album’, Lennon’s ‘Instant Karma’ and the ‘Imagine’ album. John Howard – Outtake from ‘Ki...
Each of theLennoncollection’s LPs is an authentic reproduction of its U.K. original, in its sound and visual presentation. In keeping with the original album artwork,Imaginecontains reproductions of its two postcards, poster and inner bag,Some Time In New York Cityincludes reproductions of its...
Article on Lennon and Ono's third trip to Canada in 1969 to continue their peace campaign, on the Beatles BIble website.
I can’timaginewhat George thinks. Well, I suppose he thinks I’ve lost the way or something like that. But to me, I’m like home. I’ll never change much from this. Let’s re-approach that: always the Beatles were talked about – and the Beatles talked about themselves – as bei...
It was helmed by the same audio team that worked on 2018’s Imagine reissue, including engineer Paul Hicks and mixers/engineers Rob Stevens and Sam Gannon. Plastic Ono Band was Lennon’s first album after the Beatles’ breakup. Produced by Phil Spector, it was a minimal recording featuring ...
The answer is to be the best on the planet and be consistently so and be a genuinely kind, patient, generous human being. Whether we’re working with bassist Tony Levin who’s recorded with John Lennon, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor and a million others or Steve Holley who’s...
[2]Klaus Voormann would later design the covers for both Revolver and The White Album. He also would play on many of the Beatles solo album including John Lennon’s Imagine, Plastic Ono Band, Sometime in New York City, Walls, and Bridges, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, Living...
49. “Oh My Love,”Imagine(1971) Lennon takes a moment between excoriating empty-suited politicians and ex-bandmates to lay bare his tender affections for Yoko Ono. “Oh My Love” was the only song onImaginewhere she initially earned a co-songwriting credit, though Ono’s name was later...
The album has been issued and reissued countless times through the years, but the latest reissue is the most ambitious, all-encompassing and thorough of any that have come before. This is the third major box set reissue of Lennon’s music since 2018. The previous...