…includes three bonus tracks: a previously unreleased alternate mix of “Dogtown”, “I Don’t Know Why” (Demo) and “Walking on Thin Ice”.
Born in the shadow of incredible grief, Yoko Ono’s fifth solo album, Season of Glass, holds a specific place in her greater body of work, its vivid expressions of a spectrum of painfully raw feelings frozen in place by tragedy. Released in 1981, Season of Glass arrived just months after Ono watched her husband John Lennon be murdered as they were returning home from a recording session. Infamously, a photograph of Lennon’s blood-spattered glasses served as the cover art for the album, a creative choice Ono fought for against pushback from label executives who felt it would horrify the record-buying public.
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…’Power to the People’ features 9CD, 123 tracks (90 of which are previously unreleased) to chronicle the story of Lennon and Ono’s political activism, spanning the prolific period between 1969’s anthem “Give Peace a Chance” and 1972’s controversial live album ‘Sometime in New York City’ as well as that year’s One to One concerts at Madison Square Garden.
The most challenging of John Lennon’s post-Beatles albums, there was latterly an additional barrier to Some Time in New York City being afforded the lavish box set treatment: namely that opening track, the still contentious, ‘Woman Is the N***** of the World’.
With said song now removed, a newly remixed version of the album – retitled New York City…
This month’s covermount CD is the amazing ‘Power to the People’ – an exclusive sampler of John Lennon tracks from the new box set. Features killer versions of ‘Come Together’, ‘Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)’, ‘Cold Turkey’, ‘Well Well Well’, previously unreleased Lennon and more!
1. Come Together
2. Well Well Well
3. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
4. Cold Turkey
5. Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking…
6. New York City (Ultimate Mix)
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ultimate Mix)
8. Attica State (Evolution Documentary)
9. Send Me Some Lovin’ (Home Jam)
