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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...

The Who I Can't Explain Call Me Lightning Behind Blue Eyes Let's See Action Squeeze Box Eminence Front This fully comprehensive 2CD collection charts the career of one of the most significant and formidable bands of all time. All tracks have been 24-bit digitally remastered.   Re-Release Date: 6/11/2002 Album Type: Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered Album Description This fully comprehensive 2CD collection charts the career of one of the most significant and formidable bands of all time. All tracks have been 24-bit digitally remastered. Similarly Requested CDs Revie...

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 ...

– The Ultimate Collection, which is out on April 23rd. The audio is taken from a film of John rehearsing the song at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel in the Bahamas on May 25th, 1969. The film features John humorously adlibbing lyrics for the verses before being joined by Yoko for the chorus that became an anti-war anthem and remains an enduring protest song more than 50 years later.  Originally set for New York, the second Bed-In was relocated to the Bahamas after John and Yoko were denied entrance into the U.S. because of his 1968 cannabis conviction. However, due to the layout of the hotel ...