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What inspired Lennon’s classic debut album? By Randall Roberts - Los Angeles Times John Lennon in Syracuse, New York, in 1971. Lennon’s debut solo album, “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” which came out in December 1970, is the subject of an exhaustively documented box set just released by Capitol/UME and the Lennon estate. In the months before John Lennon and Yoko Ono entered Abbey Road Studios in London to start work on what would become the album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” th...

  Article Contributed by Universal Musi… | Published on Friday, April 30, 2021 Sean Ono Lennon has created a series of captivating and innovative animations using the Spotify Canvas medium to visually accompany the eleven album tracks and three singles of the Enhanced Spotify release of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Mixes. Written and directed by Ono Lennon, “I Am the Egbert” is a series of short looping scenes that tell the story of a character named Egbert, whose li...

Print In the months before John Lennon and Yoko Ono entered Abbey Road Studios in London to start work on what would become the album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” the couple were renting a home on Nimes Road in one of L.A.’s fanciest neighborhoods, Bel-Air. The Beatles were still the most famous group in the world but were in the midst of breaking up, with members traveling to and from London to finish “Abbey Road,” work on various solo projects for their label Apple Records and ar...

Rolling Stone, John Lennon was unsure how the public at large would accept the Plastic Ono Band album: “I dont really know where itll sink in, where itll lie, yknow, in the spectrum of rock n roll, and the generation and all the rest of it. In one way, its terribly uncommercial. Yknow, its so miserable in a way and heavy, yknow? But its reality. And Im not going to veer away from it for anything.” Yoko Ono is still awed by the power of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album: “Listen...

April 22, 2021 Share Walls Of Fame is a Wonderwall series that highlights murals all over Singapore that bring our neighborhoods to life, as well as the stories behind the art and the artists (s). The series began with a look at the work of Yip Yew Chong, Singapore’s most prolific muralist, and in particular the murals in Chinatown. Now, the Wall of Fame series plans to take visitors on a tour of Little India, where the vibrant murals are only balanced by the area’s culture. Working...

Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard A new boxed set tracking the making of Lennon’s first post-Beatles solo album reveals the construction of primal songs, and the clarity of his vision. The songs on John Lennon’s solo album “Plastic Ono Band” made large topics deeply personal: family, faith, class, fame, drugs, love, fear.Credit...Yoko Ono Lennon It was raw. Yet it was meticulously thought through. “Plastic Ono Band,” relea...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Music Reviews: An Ultimate Edition of John Lennons First Major Solo Album, Plus Al Stewarts Year of the Cat Sign In Jeff Burger, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band-which first appeared in December 1970 and has just been reissued as a vastly expanded box set-was Lennons first major post-Beatles release. (A trio of slightly earlier and rarely heard avant-garde records that he made with Yoko Ono hardly qualify as "major.") He w...

‘The Who Sell Out’ and ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band boxed sets top this week’s new releases Updated 9:40 AM; Today 9:40 AM “The Who Sell Out” boxed set, left, and the "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection)" top this week’s new music releases. (Photos courtesy of Geffen/UMe and Capitol UMe respectively) Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Big box sets from John Lennon and the Who set the pace for this week’s batch of new music releases, while Dirty Honey, Peter ...

Excerpted from , what follows is John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s words on the track “Working Class Hero.” John Lennon: I like “Working Class Hero” – as a song, or a poem or whatever it is. I think its concept is revolutionary. It’s for the people like me who are working class, who are supposed to be processed into the middle classes, or into the machinery. It’s my experience, and I hope it’s just a warning to people. The thing about the song that nobody ever got right was that it ...

Its one thing when the poor bitch position the rich as the bad guy, its another thing when the rich do it. Singers do it all the time. John Lennon, who sang "Working Class Hero," never had a real job in his life. Neither has Bruce Springsteen, who admitted as much on the Broadway stage. Although neither of us could do what they do as well as they do it. Its the same thing when politicians do it. The only difference is with the way things are in New Jersey by an inexperienced governor who has ta...