{"id":4491,"date":"2025-08-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/john-lennon-yoko-ono-boxed-set\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:00:00","slug":"john-lennon-yoko-ono-boxed-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/john-lennon-yoko-ono-boxed-set\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon, Yoko Ono\u2019s Early \u201970s Output Compiled For Boxed Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/image011.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>When<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/john-lennon\">\u00a0John Lennon<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/yoko-ono\">\u00a0Yoko Ono<\/a>\u00a0moved from London to New York in the wake of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/the-beatles\">\u00a0the Beatles<\/a>\u2018 1970 demise, they secured an unassuming one-bedroom apartment on Bank Street in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village, immersed themselves in the thriving counterculture and lent their voices to the raging anti-war movement in opposition to the American government\u2019s evermore deadly presence in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, Capitol\/UMe will release a massive boxed set this fall devoted to this artistic era of Lennon and Ono, dubbed <em>Power to the People <\/em>and produced by the couple\u2019s son Sean. The Super Deluxe edition of the project includes nine CDs and 3 Blu-ray discs and will arrive in tandem with several other variants on Oct. 10, a day after what would have been Lennon\u2019s 85th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/b-real-breaks-down-how-insane-in-the-brain-made-cypress-hill-superstars\/\">B-Real Breaks Down How \u201cInsane in the Brain\u201d Made Cypress Hill Superstars<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/20-years-later-the-soundtrack-of-brokeback-mountain-still-echoes\/\">20 Years Later, the Soundtrack of \u2018Brokeback Mountain\u2019 Still Echoes<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/radiohead-salute-hail-to-the-thief-with-live-collection\/\">Radiohead Salutes \u2018Hail To The Thief\u2019 With Live Collection<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The box centers around refurbished audio from Lennon and Ono\u2019s Aug. 30, 1972, One to One benefit concerts at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden, which raised more than $1.5 million to support intellectually disabled children and were the last full-length performances Lennon ever staged before his 1980 murder. Both the afternoon and evening shows are available individually, while a single \u201chybrid\u201d version features highlights of the two sets. See a rollicking take on the Beatles\u2019 \u201cCome Together\u201d below.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from these shows was prominently featured in Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards\u2019 recent documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/one-to-one-john-lennon-yoko-ono\/\">One to One: John &amp; Yoko<\/a><\/em>, which will be available for streaming on HBO Max this fall. The concerts themselves will be released next year under the name <em>Power to the People<\/em>, as directed by\u00a0Simon Hilton\u00a0and edited by\u00a0Ben Wainwright-Pierce. Excerpts were previously only available on the 1986 album and home video release <em>Live in New York City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"QvbwW9bxhZY\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen 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\u2019s so good live and he\u2019s such a great performer,\u201d Macdonald told SPIN in March. \u201cSimultaneously, he was incredibly anxious and he\u2019s documented that the reason he didn\u2019t is because he got terrible stage fright. But at these shows, he seemed so relaxed. He\u2019s improvising, throwing in words and pulling this band together. He\u2019s the beating heart of it, musically, and they hadn\u2019t really rehearsed very much. It was all done in quite an ad hoc way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Super Deluxe edition also presents a fresh look at Lennon and Ono\u2019s maligned 1972 album <em>Sometime in New York City<\/em>, which has been remixed from the ground up, resequenced and also presented as audio montages showing each song\u2019s 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\u2019s Memory have been unearthed and remixed.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019n\u2019roll covers the Beatles used to perform in their pre-fame days, from the Everly Brothers\u2019 \u201cWake Up Little Susie\u201d to Buddy Holly\u2019s \u201cPeggy Sue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents\u2019 archive for the first time,\u201d says Sean Lennon. \u201cPeople 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\u2019s familiar with. So to come across things that I\u2019ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it\u2019s almost like getting more time with my dad. When I was 11, my mum put out the\u00a0<em>Live in New York City<\/em>\u00a0album 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\u2019s last concert. For the concerts,\u00a0Paul Hicks\u00a0and\u00a0Simon Hilton\u00a0and 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\u00a0Sam Gannon\u00a0did some meticulous and miraculous work with audio restoration. I won\u2019t disclose all our techniques but there was some \u2018movie magic\u2019 required, and I think in the end, the shows sound better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0John Lennon\u00a0and\u00a0Yoko Ono\u00a0moved from London to New York in the wake of\u00a0the Beatles\u2018 1970 demise, they secured an unassuming one-bedroom apartment on Bank Street in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village, immersed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,6,24,3332,385,3333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-lennon","category-news","category-pushly","category-sean-lennon","category-the-beatles","category-yoko-ono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}