(BEATLES) JOHN LENNON: PLASTIC ONO BAND (MFSL ½ SPEED)

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JOHN LENNON: PLASTIC ONO BAND

MFSL 1-280

No# 02151

2004 US exclusive limited edition Half Speed Mastered 'Original Master Recording' GAIN 2™ Ultra Analog 11-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL for the best possible sound quality, presented in individually numbered picture sleeve with insert - still sealed in original perforated bag!

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JOHN LENNON: PLASTIC ONO BAND

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English rock musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970 after Lennon issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace In Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to The Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Yoko Ono's debut avant garde solo album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team, and featured nearly identical cover artwork. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums and a landmark recording. Rolling Stone named it the twenty-second greatest album of all time.

The "Plastic Ono Band" in the album's title refers to the conceptual band Lennon and Ono had formed in 1969 of various supporting musicians they would use on their various solo albums.

After the Beatles' break-up in April 1970, both Lennon and Ono undertook primal therapy with the guidance of Arthur Janov for four months in Los Angeles. Forced to confront the traumas of his childhood (abandonment, isolation and death), Lennon finally let his submerged anger and hurt rise to the surface and dealt with it through his art. Similarly, Ono's concurrently-recorded album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was a form of catharsis for her.

Returning to England that September, Lennon and Ono called upon Phil Spector, who had produced Lennon's hit "Instant Karma!" earlier that year, to co-produce both their albums with them at Abbey Road Studios. Ringo Starr played drums, while Klaus Voormann played bass. Billy Preston, who had already worked with the Beatles, supplied piano for "God". Lennon performed all guitar duties, playing most of the piano as well.

Throughout the album, Lennon touches upon many issues: the abandonment of his parents in "Mother"; the castigation of class issues in "Working Class Hero"; a reminder that despite his rage and pain, Lennon still embraces "Love"; and "God", a renouncement of external saviours. Here Lennon states that he believes only in himself, and his wife Yoko.

The album's cover is almost identical to Ono's companion piece Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band—the difference being that on Ono's cover, she is lying on Lennon's body. The photo was snapped with a consumer-grade Instamatic camera by actor Daniel Richter who worked as an assistant for the Lennons at the time.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was received with high critical praise upon release. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock." In early 1971, the album reached number eight on the U.K. and went to number six in the U.S., spending eighteen weeks in the Top 100.

In 2000 Q placed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band at number sixty-two in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.[6] In 1987, it was ranked number four on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the period 1967-1987, and in 2003, it was placed at number twenty-two in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In 2006, the album was placed by Pitchfork Media at number sixty of its Top 100 Albums of the 1970s list. In 2006, the album was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

Phil Spector, a co-producer on this album, played piano on "Love".  "Look At Me" dates from The Beatles period, and is built on a finger-picking guitar pattern very similar to the one Lennon used in "Dear Prudence", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and "Julia". Lennon learned this guitar technique from Donovan while the two were in Rishikesh.

Tracks:

All songs written by John Lennon.

Side one

1. Mother – 5:34
2. Hold On – 1:52
3. I Found Out – 3:37
4. Working Class Hero – 3:48
5. Isolation – 2:51
6. Remember – 4:33
7. Love – 3:21
8. Well Well Well – 5:59
9. Look at Me – 2:53
10. God – 4:09
11. My Mummy's Dead – 0:49
12. Power To The People
13. Do The Oz

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