The Plastic Ono Band is the band John Lennon formed after he left the Beatles. John Lennon John Winston Lennon, later John Ono Lennon, (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), was best known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Beatles. ... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their first United States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...

Shortly before the Beatles disbanded, John Lennon collaborated with his newfound companion Yoko Ono on the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins. With the release of Paul McCartney's solo album McCartney, the Beatles were officially disbanded, and Lennon began work on his own solo projects. Yoko Ono in Central Park, c. ... Unfinished Music No. ... Paul McCartney, as photographed by John Kelley for the 1968 LP The Beatles (aka The White Album). Sir James Paul McCartney, KBE, MBE (born June 18, 1942), better known as Paul McCartney, is a British musician, composer, and producer, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ... McCartney was the first solo album by Paul McCartney after the break-up of the Beatles. ...

The Plastic Ono Band's first album, Live Peace In Toronto, was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival in 1969, and some of the stars that performed in this event were Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others from the early years of the genre. The crowd attending was first surprised and then delighted as they learned that Beatle John Lennon (the band hadn't broken up yet) was actually going to play for them, not only because The Plastic Ono Band was not announced on the bill, but also because this first incarnation of the group consisted of Eric Clapton, who was a well known and most respected guitar hero of the era, Klaus Voorman, a bass player and old friend of Lennon from Germany, who was famous for the art of the Beatles' Revolver album, a then-unknown drummer, Alan White, who came to prominence some years later with Yes, and Yoko Ono, who stayed quiet beside Lennon for most of the band's performance. Following the spirit of the festival, The Plastic Ono Band played old rock and roll numbers like "Blue Suede Shoes", "Money" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzie", but also interpolated their recently released singles "Cold Turkey" and "Give Peace a Chance", as well as "Yer Blues", a song from the Beatles' 1968 White Album. For the second part of their show, Yoko took the microphone and along with the band performed what has been considered to be one of the first massive expressions of avant-garde and experimental music in a rock scenario. The composition "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's only looking for her hand in the snow)" consisted of a simple repetitive riff played by the group, while Yoko improvised the least fashionable notes a singer could produce. Just before the audience knew what was going on, "John John" was offered to these young Canadians. They surely were expecting more early rock songs, but this original by Ono was an absolute breaking of whatever song standards there existed previously, the band playing as noisily and as incoherently as the amplifiers made it possible, all in a sea of feedback, and Lennon's wife screaming her guts out for more than half an hour. Taking into consideration that Yoko Ono had been already an avant-garde artist, and the volatile state of mind of John Lennon during these years, this performance could be considered as "typical" of the couple. Live Peace In Toronto was a live album recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Little Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman, December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia) is a pioneer of rock and roll though he says (quoted in Hamm 1979, p. ... Bo Diddleys emphasis on rhythm largely influenced popular music, especially that of rock and roll in the 1960s. ... Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist, as well as an early pioneer of the rock and roll movement. ... Eric Clapton at the Tsunami Relief concert in Cardiffs Millennium Stadium, January 22nd 2005 Eric Clapton CBE (born Eric Patrick Clapp on March 30, 1945) is a British guitarist and composer, nicknamed slowhand. ... Klaus Voormann was an artist. ... Revolver was the Beatles seventh album in three years, released on August 5, 1966. ... Alan White (born June 14, 1949) is a rock and roll drummer best known for his thirty years of work with the progressive rock band Yes. ... Yes in concert in Indianapolis in 1977 (left to right, Steve Howe, Alan White, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman) The popular music group Yes is a progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ... Give Peace a Chance was a hit song written by John Lennon, and credited as Lennon/McCartney because the Beatles were on the verge of breaking up. ... The self-titled double album The Beatles, released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
LP by John Lennon
Released	December 11, 1970
Recorded	1970
Genre	Rock
Length	38 min 19 s
Label	Apple
Producer	Phil Spector
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John Lennon Chronology
Live Peace In Toronto (1969)	Plastic Ono Band (1970)	Imagine (1971)

The second album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was meant as an exercise in personal therapy. Lennon poured his personal feelings and troubles into a series of songs that he considered "primal scream" therapy; this is reflected in a number of songs on the album in which Lennon literally screams. The result of his work was an album considered by many to be one of the predecessors of modern-day "grunge" and punk rock, as Lennon lashed out at the world and exorcised his inner demons. The album cover for the John Lennon album Plastic Ono Band. This work is copyrighted. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... John Lennon John Winston Lennon, later John Ono Lennon, (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), was best known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Beatles. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Apple Records was founded in 1968 by the musical group known as The Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Harvey Phillip Phil Spector (born December 26, 1940) is a highly influential record producer of some of the best-known popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a globally comprehensive metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... John Lennon John Winston Lennon, later John Ono Lennon, (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), was best known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Beatles. ... Live Peace In Toronto was a live album recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Imagine, recorded and released in 1971, was John Lennons second solo album and generally considered his most popular. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Primal Scream is a rock band from Scotland, headed by former Jesus & Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

The album was highly controversial because Lennon chose to include profanities in two songs: "I Found Out" and "Working Class Hero." The record label refused to print the actual lyrics containing these expletives. Even more upsetting to fans was the song "God," in which Lennon shuts himself away from the Beatles with the lyric "I don't believe in Beatles."

The song "Mother" is a dirge starting with a knell and covering Lennon's relationship with his family: from what Lennon perceived as his mother's abandonment of him and his continuing grief over the loss; to his father's abandonment of him and his indifference towards John's need; to an entreaty to Lennon's son Julian not to act like his father. The song closes with the repeatedly screamed lines "Mama don't go; Daddy come home."

"Hold On John" is a Beatles leftover from the White Album, and features Lennon mimicking Cookie Monster (then a new television character), saying in a gravelly voice during the bridge, "cookie!"

"I Found Out" covers Lennon's disgust with "freaks on the phone" bothering him as well as his disillusionment with Christianity ("There ain't no Jesus going to come from the sky") and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ("Ole Hare Krishna got nothing on you // just keeps you crazy with nothing to do") and his anger over his relationship with his mother and father, as well as a perhaps ironic encouragement to avoid drugs and "feel your own pain." Christianity is the worlds largest religion. ... This 11th-century portrait is one of many images of Jesus in which a halo with a cross is used. ... The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly called Hare Krishna, is a new religious movement based on Gaudiya, Vaishnavism founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, referred to by followers as Prabhupada, in New York in 1966. ... The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a new religious movement based on Bengali, or more specifically Gaudiya, Vaishnavism founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, referred to by followers as His Divine Grace, in New York in 1966. ...

"Working Class Hero" is about Lennon's disaffection with what he perceives as exploitation of the working class : "They keep you doped with religion and sex and TV // And you think you're so clever and classless and free // But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see." The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...

"Isolation" is a piano ballad about John and Yoko, their efforts towards social change, and the criticism they received because of it. Part of it serves as a recrimination of their critics, though tempered with sympathy: "I don't expect you to understand // After you caused so much pain // But then again you're not to blame," etc.

"Remember" is a song about many of the themes covered in the other songs on the album: worker exploitation, escape to a better place, Lennon's mother and father. It ends dramatically with a reference to the Gunpowder Plot and the sound of an explosion, Lennon's ironic attempt to express a disavowal of social activism. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 involved a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholic extremists to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one fell swoop by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening. ...

In "God," Lennon refers to God as "a concept by which we measure our pain," and follows that description with a list of things he does not believe in: magic, the Bible, Kennedy, Buddha, Mantra, the Bhagavad Gita, Yoga, kings, Elvis Presley, Tarot cards, Jesus, the I Ching, Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan), the Beatles, and Adolf Hitler (the last one a reference to Lennon's wish to have Hitler appear on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--an idea that was scuttled after controversy erupted over Lennon's "bigger than Jesus" comment). Lennon concludes that what he believes in is himself and Yoko Ono, and that his fans will have to carry on after The Beatles' breakup. Look up Magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term magic is a Persian loanword into English and may refer to: Magic (paranormal) deals with the manipulation of what the practitioner believes to be genuine paranormal phenomena. ... A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Order: 35th President Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Term of office: January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 Preceded by: Dwight D. Eisenhower Succeeded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Date of birth: May 29, 1917 Place of birth: Brookline, Massachusetts Date of death: November 22, 1963 Place of death: Dallas, Texas First... A stone image of the Buddha. ... -1... Bhagavad Gīta भगवद्गीता, composed ca the fifth - second centuries BC, is part of the epic poem Mahabharata, located in the Bhisma-Parva chapters 23–40. ... Hatha Yoga posture Yoga is a form of mysticism that developed on the Indian subcontinent in the Hindu cultural context. ... The word Kings is the plural of king, a male ruler. ... Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll, or as just simply The King, was an American singer who had an effect on world culture rivaled only by The Beatles . ... Tarot (Tar-oh) is a system of symbolical images. ... This 11th-century portrait is one of many images of Jesus in which a halo with a cross is used. ... Alternative meaning: I Ching (monk) The I Ching (Traditional Chinese: 易經, pinyin y jīng; Cantonese IPA: jɪk6gɪŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping: jik6ging1; alternative romanizations include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ... Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is widely regarded as Americas greatest living popular songwriter. ... Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Imperial chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ... Sgt. ...

"My Mummy's Dead" is a muted acoustic guitar song about John Lennon's mother. The song lasts 59 seconds.

Track listing

1. "Mother"
2. "Hold On"
3. "I Found Out"
4. "Working Class Hero"
5. "Isolation"
6. "Remember"
7. "Love"
8. "Well Well Well"
9. "Look At Me"
10. "God"
11. "My Mummy's Dead"

A remastered 2001 re-release of the album on CD also included the tracks "Power To The People" and "Do The Oz." 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...