In the wake of the Beatles' 1970 split, John Lennon and Yoko Ono left London for New York. They settled into a modest one-bedroom apartment on Bank Street in Greenwich Village, where they embraced the flourishing counterculture.
Capitol/UMe is set to release a comprehensive box set this fall that chronicles this period in Lennon and Ono's lives. Titled Power to the People, the collection was produced by their son, Sean. The Super Deluxe version, which includes nine CDs and three Blu-ray discs, will be released on October 10th, coinciding with what would have been John's 85th birthday. Several other editions will also be available.
At the heart of the collection are newly remastered recordings from Lennon and Ono's benefit concerts, One to One, held at New York's Madison Square Garden on August 30, 1972.
The performances raised over $1.5 million for children with intellectual disabilities and were the last full-length concerts Lennon ever performed before his murder in 1980.
Both the afternoon and evening shows are available as separate releases, while a single "hybrid" album features the standout moments from both sets.
Footage from these shows was prominently featured in Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ recent documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which will be available for streaming on HBO Max this fall. The concerts themselves will be released next year under the name Power to the People, as directed by Simon Hilton and edited by Ben Wainwright-Pierce.
Excerpts were previously only available on the 1986 album and home video release Live in New York City. “When I watch the film, the feeling I come away with almost more than anything else is, why the fuck did he not do this more? He’s so good live and he’s such a great performer,” Macdonald told SPIN in March.
“Simultaneously, he was incredibly anxious and he’s documented that the reason he didn’t is because he got terrible stage fright. But at these shows, he seemed so relaxed. He’s improvising, throwing in words and pulling this band together. He’s the beating heart of it, musically, and they hadn’t really rehearsed very much. It was all done in quite an ad hoc way.”
The Super Deluxe edition also presents a fresh look at Lennon and Ono’s maligned 1972 album Sometime in New York City, which has been remixed from the ground up, resequenced and also presented as audio montages showing each song’s evolution from demo to finished track. Further, a host of related studio and onstage jams featuring Lennon and Ono backed by drummer Jim Keltner and New York psychedelic rock band Elephant’s Memory have been unearthed and remixed. Perhaps of greatest interest to fans will be 33 acoustic recordings Lennon made in 1971 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York and at a hotel in Ann Arbor, Mi., all but one of which has never before seen the light of day. On them, Lennon delights in old rock’n’roll covers the Beatles used to perform in their pre-fame days, from the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” to Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue.”
“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time,” says Sean Lennon. “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad. When I was 11, my mum put out the Live in New York City album and film (in 1986), so I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert. For the concerts, Paul Hicks and Simon Hilton and I spent a lot of time finding the best possible balance to keep the feeling of a live show while refining the overall sound as much as possible and Sam Gannon did some meticulous and miraculous work with audio restoration. I won’t disclose all our techniques but there was some ‘movie magic’required, and I think in the end, the shows sound better than ever.”
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