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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,” released in December 1970, was John Lennon’s first solo album after the breakup of the Beatles earli...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Music Reviews: An 'Ultimate' Edition of John Lennon's First Major Solo Album, Plus Al Stewart's '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 Lennon's 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 would make some excellent music in the decade that followed but little that proved quite as in...

‘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 Frampton, Eric Church and Twiztid offer up fresh recordings... Album of the Week: Some blasts from t...

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 was supposed to be sardonic. It had nothing to do with socialism, it had to do with: if you want to ...

It's one thing when the poor bitch position the rich as the bad guy, it's 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. It's 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 taken control away from the governing body with eternal public health emergencies, we probably, if ...