John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell / special performance

John Lennon (Beatles), Eric Clapton (Cream), Keith Richards (Rolling Stones), Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Yer Blues: https://youtu.be/oJP2oLRuyoY?si=8WNk3VQ21pK_47MS :

Classic Albums (The making of) / John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

John Lennon - Imagine (1971) : 

The Making of: https://youtu.be/7GP5mX5Ty8U :

Imagine is the second studio album by John Lennon. Recorded and released in 1971, the album is more heavily produced in contrast to the basic, raw arrangements of his previous album, the critically acclaimed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The album is considered the most popular of his works and the title track is considered one of Lennon's finest songs. 
Music and lyrics:

Imagine was written and recorded during a period of particularly bad feeling between Lennon and former bandmate Paul McCartney, following The Beatles' break-up the year before and McCartney winning his case in the High Court to have their legal partnership dissolved. Harrison guested on half of Imagine 's ten tracks, including the brutal "How Do You Sleep?" - a song written in retaliation against McCartney's alleged personal attacks on Lennon and Ono, on his recent Ram album. Although Lennon softened his stance in the mid '70s and claimed he wrote "How Do You Sleep?" about himself, he revealed in 1980: "I used my resentment against Paul ... to create a song ... not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta ... I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep?'. I don't really go 'round with those thoughts in my head all the time ..."

The track "Imagine" became Lennon's signature song and was written as a plea for world peace. Years later he gave credit to his wife Yoko Ono who co-wrote the song. "Jealous Guy" has also had enduring popularity; it was originally composed as "Child of Nature" during the songwriting sessions in India in 1968 that led to The Beatles' double album The Beatles. "Oh My Love" and the song "How?" were influenced by his experience with primal therapy: "How?" contains the questions he was facing while going through the changes produced in him during the ongoing process of primal therapy, while "Oh My Love" was written to communicate the joy and growth Lennon was experiencing as a result of the therapy.


Lennon also indulged his love of rock and roll with "Crippled Inside" and "It's So Hard". "Gimme Some Truth", originally heard during the Let It Be sessions in early 1969, appears on the album with a new bridge. The politically themed "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" closes the first half of Imagine in a cacophonous manner. The last song on the album was "Oh Yoko!"; EMI pushed for this track to be the single, but Lennon thought it was too "pop".


More info about the album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_album)



Full album: https://youtu.be/e0oQqa39pjk :

Track listing:

(All songs written by John Lennon, except "Oh My Love" by Lennon and Yoko Ono)

Side one:

 "Imagine" – 3:01
"Crippled Inside" – 3:47
"Jealous Guy" – 4:14
"It's So Hard" – 2:25
"I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" – 6:05


Side two:

"Gimme Some Truth" – 3:16
"Oh My Love" – 2:50
"How Do You Sleep?" – 5:36
"How?" – 3:43

"Oh Yoko!" – 4:20



Source: wikipedia

Classic Albums (The Making Of) / John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band 1970 (documentary)

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970)

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo 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 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, documenting with honesty and artistic integrity his emotional and mental state at that point in his career. In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 4 on "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years." In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 23 on their The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

More info about the album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon/Plastic_Ono_Band

John Lennon - At the Tomorrow Show - Interview (1975)

John Lennon interviewed by Tom Snyder (1975)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Interview / Dick Cavett Show 1971

John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Dick Cavett show, September 11th , 1971