John Lennon - The ULTIMATE COLLECTION - Plastic Ono Band

            Then there's a review of John Lennon's 'Plastic Ono Band' 8 disc anniversary deluxe set edition and this is really worth the read too.

John Lennon PLASTIC ONO BAND - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - Onlygoodsong

Again a great review and really interesting notes about the legendary break up of the Beatles  . . . . . even tho' most of us seemed only to buy McCartney earlier that April!!?['McCartney' came out in April and charted no.1 in the US and no 2 in the U.K.] Lennon’s album came out some eight months later in Dec and only made it to no. 8 in the U.K. no. 6 in the US. Lennon said to be annoyed that George’s ‘All Things Must Pass’ coming out in November the month before and being his third solo effort in actual fact (Wonderwall and Electronic Music coming out much earlier) 

"God" was perhaps the most challenging track to many, though I took Working Class Hero personally and it annoyed me intensely wrestling as I was with my Sociology lecturer telling me quite how middle-class my family were and that my working class roots came to naught and Lennon's 'And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see' rankled something HARD! Was he singing about me? 'Peasant was I? Well he could take a running jump as far as I could muster the venom to engender so I disliked the album and still am not keen and prefer 'Imagine the year after  . . . . . . . . . The Janov therapy thrust in our faces was a shock I guess but quickly despised and dismissed as he failed to complete his program much to Janov’s continued concern feeling John needed at least another full year to complete the complex nature of his abandonment issues and resolve his anger but John’s green card issues meant his visa required his return to the UK

Heartbreaking stuff and maybe you shouldn't go through therapy in public . . . . . . but we loved them both . . . . . . . still do Yoko

On this day in music history: December 11, 1970 - “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band”, the debut solo album by John Lennon is released. Produced by John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Phil Spector, it is recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and Ascot Sound Studios at Tittenhurst Park in Ascot, Berkshire, UK from September 26 - October 23, 1970. Much of the material on the album is influenced by the Primal Scream therapy sessions Lennon and Ono participate in with Dr. Arthur Janov (earlier in 1970), dealing with the emotional and childhood traumas both have suffered. The sessions result in some of the most deeply personal and affecting material Lennon has ever written. The album features Lennon, bassist Klaus Voorman and former Beatle band mate Ringo Starr on drums as the core rhythm section, with co-producer Spector and Billy Preston also playing keyboards on one track each. It receives rapturous critical praise upon its release and is considered a landmark recording in Lennon’s career. The album is remastered three times on CD, with the 2000 release featuring the album remixed from the original multi-track tapes adding “Power to the People”, and “Do the Oz” as bonus tracks. A 2003 CD and vinyl LP reissue by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab uses the remixed version of the album. Another remaster is issued in 2010 using the original stereo master mix down masters. It is remastered and reissued as a 180 gram vinyl LP in 2015, as part of EMI/UMe’s Back To Black reissue series. The reissue replicates the original album artwork, custom record labels and lyric sheet inner sleeve. “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band” peaks at number six on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.