Album
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
1970 · Rock
83 collectors on Gatefold own this
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band is a Rock album by John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band, originally released in 1970. On Gatefold: 278 pressings tracked, owned by 83 collectors.
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John Lennon's solo debut contains some of the most nakedly emotional songs ever recorded. Demolishing '60s mythology with almost pathological zeal, he castigates hippie hypocrisy on "I Found Out" and includes his former band among the idols he forsakes on the iconoclastic, deceptively mellow-sounding piano ballad "God." Psychedelic arrangements and imagery are replaced by ultra-minimalist production and raw passion, whether John’s mourning his mother's death with a feral howl over skeletal piano, bass, and drums, or embracing the underdog on the acoustic "Working Class Hero."
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Mother
- A2Hold On
- A3I Found Out
- A4Working Class Hero
- A5Isolation
Side B
- B1Remember
- B2Love
- B3Well Well Well
- B4Look At Me
- B5God
- B6My Mummy's Dead
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Art Rock
- raw
- earnest
- confessional
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut studio album by English rock musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had 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 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 nearly identical cover artwork.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums, documenting with honesty and artistic integrity his emotional and mental state at that point in his career. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it fourth in its list "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years" and in 2012, ranked it number 23 in "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Alan WhiteDRUMS DRUMS, PIANO DRUMS, VOCALS
- Billy PrestonGRAND PIANO PIANO, KEYBOARDS PIANO
- Eric ClaptonGUITAR
- John LennonACOUSTIC GUITAR COMPOSED BY, GUITAR, VOCALS ELECTRIC GUITAR
- Klaus VoormannBASS BASS GUITAR BASS, ILLUSTRATION
- Phil SpectorPIANO
- Ringo StarrDRUMS
- Yoko OnoBACKING VOCALS VOCALS
- Allen KleinBACKING VOCALS
- Derek TaylorBACKING VOCALS
- Dr. Timothy LearyBACKING VOCALS
- George HarrisonGUITAR GUITAR, PIANO PIANO
- Mal EvansBACKING VOCALS TAMBOURINE TUBULAR BELLS, HANDCLAPS, BACKING VOCALS, TAMBOURINE
- Petula ClarkBACKING VOCALS
- Rosemary LearyBACKING VOCALS
- Tommy SmothersGUITAR
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