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John Winston Ono Lennon Born John Winston Lennon 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 Was An English Singer Songwriter And Musician Who Gained Worldwide Fame As The Founder Co-Songwriter Co-Lead Vocalist And Rhythm Guitarist Of The Beatles. His Work Included Music Writing Drawings And Film. His Songwriting Partnership With Paul McCartney Remains The Most Successful In History. Born In Liverpool Lennon Became Involved In The Skiffle Craze As A Teenager. In 1956 He Formed The Quarrymen Which Evolved Into The Beatles In 1960. Sometimes Called "the Smart Beatle" Lennon Initially Was The Group's De Facto Leader A Role He Gradually Ceded To McCartney. Through His Songwriting In The Beatles He Embraced Myriad Musical Influences Initially Writing And Co-Writing Rock And Pop-Oriented Hit Songs In The Band's Early Years Then Later Incorporating Experimental Elements Into His Compositions In The Latter Half Of The Beatles' Career As His Songs Became Known For Their Increasing Innovation. Lennon Soon Expanded His Work Into Other Media By Participating In Numerous Films Including How I Won The War And Authoring In His Own Write And A Spaniard In The Works Both Collections Of Nonsense Writings And Line Drawings. Starting With "All You Need Is Love" His Songs Were Adopted As Anthems By The Anti-War Movement And The Larger Counterculture Of The 1960s. In 1969 He Started The Plastic Ono Band With His Second Wife Multimedia Artist Yoko Ono Held The Two-Week-Long Anti-War Demonstration Bed-Ins For Peace And Left The Beatles To Embark On A Solo Career. Between 1968 And 1972 Lennon And Ono Collaborated On Many Works Including A Trilogy Of Avant-Garde Albums Several More Films His Solo Debut John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band And The International Top-10 Singles "Give Peace A Chance" "Instant Karma!" "Imagine" And "Happy Xmas War Is Over ". Moving To New York City In 1971 His Criticism Of The Vietnam War Resulted In A Three-Year Deportation Attempt By The Nixon Administration. Lennon And Ono Separated From 1973 To 1975 During Which Time He Produced Harry Nilsson's Album Pussy Cats. He Also Had Chart-Topping Collaborations With Elton John "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" And David Bowie "Fame" . Following A Five-Year Hiatus Lennon Returned To Music In 1980 With The Ono Collaboration Double Fantasy. He Was Murdered By A Beatles Fan Mark David Chapman Three Weeks After The Album's Release. As A Performer Writer Or Co-Writer Lennon Had 25 Number-One Singles In The Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Double Fantasy His Best-Selling Album Won The 1981 Grammy Award For Album Of The Year. That Year He Won The Brit Award For Outstanding Contribution To Music. In 2002 Lennon Was Voted Eighth In A BBC History Poll Of The 100 Greatest Britons. Rolling Stone Ranked Him The Fifth-Greatest Singer And 38th Greatest Artist Of All Time. He Was Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame In 1997 And The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Twice As A Member Of The Beatles In 1988 And As A Solo Artist In 1994 . Studio Albums
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1970 Imagine 1971 Some Time In New York City With Yoko Ono 1972 Mind Games 1973 Walls And Bridges 1974 Rock 'n' Roll 1975 Double Fantasy With Yoko Ono 1980 Milk And Honey Posthumous With Yoko Ono 1984 Experimental Studio Albums With Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No. 1 Two Virgins 1968 Unfinished Music No. 2 Life With The Lions 1969 Wedding Album 1969
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John Winston Ono Lennon Born John Winston Lennon 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 Was An English Singer Songwriter And Musician Who Gained Worldwide Fame As The Founder Co-Songwriter Co-Lead Vocalist And Rhythm Guitarist Of The Beatles. His Work Included Music Writing Drawings And Film. His Songwriting Partnership With Paul McCartney Remains The Most Successful In History. Born In Liverpool Lennon Became Involved In The Skiffle Craze As A Teenager. In 1956 He Formed The Quarrymen Which Evolved Into The Beatles In 1960. Sometimes Called "the Smart Beatle" Lennon Initially Was The Group's De Facto Leader A Role He Gradually Ceded To McCartney. Through His Songwriting In The Beatles He Embraced Myriad Musical Influences Initially Writing And Co-Writing Rock And Pop-Oriented Hit Songs In The Band's Early Years Then Later Incorporating Experimental Elements Into His Compositions In The Latter Half Of The Beatles' Career As His Songs Became Known For Their Increasing Innovation. Lennon Soon Expanded His Work Into Other Media By Participating In Numerous Films Including How I Won The War And Authoring In His Own Write And A Spaniard In The Works Both Collections Of Nonsense Writings And Line Drawings. Starting With "All You Need Is Love" His Songs Were Adopted As Anthems By The Anti-War Movement And The Larger Counterculture Of The 1960s. In 1969 He Started The Plastic Ono Band With His Second Wife Multimedia Artist Yoko Ono Held The Two-Week-Long Anti-War Demonstration Bed-Ins For Peace And Left The Beatles To Embark On A Solo Career. Between 1968 And 1972 Lennon And Ono Collaborated On Many Works Including A Trilogy Of Avant-Garde Albums Several More Films His Solo Debut John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band And The International Top-10 Singles "Give Peace A Chance" "Instant Karma!" "Imagine" And "Happy Xmas War Is Over ". Moving To New York City In 1971 His Criticism Of The Vietnam War Resulted In A Three-Year Deportation Attempt By The Nixon Administration. Lennon And Ono Separated From 1973 To 1975 During Which Time He Produced Harry Nilsson's Album Pussy Cats. He Also Had Chart-Topping Collaborations With Elton John "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" And David Bowie "Fame" . Following A Five-Year Hiatus Lennon Returned To Music In 1980 With The Ono Collaboration Double Fantasy. He Was Murdered By A Beatles Fan Mark David Chapman Three Weeks After The Album's Release. As A Performer Writer Or Co-Writer Lennon Had 25 Number-One Singles In The Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Double Fantasy His Best-Selling Album Won The 1981 Grammy Award For Album Of The Year. That Year He Won The Brit Award For Outstanding Contribution To Music. In 2002 Lennon Was Voted Eighth In A BBC History Poll Of The 100 Greatest Britons. Rolling Stone Ranked Him The Fifth-Greatest Singer And 38th Greatest Artist Of All Time. He Was Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame In 1997 And The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Twice As A Member Of The Beatles In 1988 And As A Solo Artist In 1994 . Studio Albums
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1970 Imagine 1971 Some Time In New York City With Yoko Ono 1972 Mind Games 1973 Walls And Bridges 1974 Rock 'n' Roll 1975 Double Fantasy With Yoko Ono 1980 Milk And Honey Posthumous With Yoko Ono 1984 Experimental Studio Albums With Yoko Ono
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1970 Imagine 1971 Some Time In New York City With Yoko Ono 1972 Mind Games 1973 Walls And Bridges 1974 Rock 'n' Roll 1975 Double Fantasy With Yoko Ono 1980 Milk And Honey Posthumous With Yoko Ono 1984 Experimental Studio Albums With Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No. 1 Two Virgins 1968 Unfinished Music No. 2 Life With The Lions 1969 Wedding Album 1969 read less
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The "Plastic Ono Band" In The Album's Title Refers To The Conceptual Band Lennon And Ono Had Formed In 1969 Of Various Supporting Musicians They Would Use On Their Various Solo Albums. After The Beatles' Break-Up In April 1970 Both Lennon And Ono Undertook Primal Therapy With The Guidance Of Arthur Janov For Four Months In Los Angeles. Forced To Confront The Traumas Of His Childhood Abandonment Isolation And Death Lennon Finally Let His Submerged Anger And Hurt Rise To The Surface And Dealt With It Through His Art. Similarly Ono's Concurrently-Recorded Album Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band Was A Form Of Catharsis For Her. Returning To England That September Lennon And Ono Called Upon Phil Spector Who Had Produced Lennon's Hit Instant Karma! Earlier That Year To Co-Produce Both Their Albums With Them At Abbey Road Studios. Ringo Starr Played Drums While Klaus Voormann An Old Pal Of The Beatles From Germany – And A Former Member Of Manfred Mann – Played Bass. Billy Preston Who Had Already Worked With The Beatles Supplied Piano For God. Lennon Himself Performed All Guitar Duties Playing Most Of The Piano As Well. The Music Itself Was Kept Very Basic And Direct In Arrangement. Throughout The Album Lennon Touches Upon Many Issues The Abandonment Of His Parents In Mother The Castigation Of Class Issues In Working Class Hero One Of The First Pop Songs To Feature The Word "fuck" A Reminder That Despite His Rage And Pain Lennon Still Embraces Love And God A Renouncement Of External Saviours Including Famously The Beatles. Here Lennon States That He Believes Only In Himself And His Wife Yoko. In 2000 Yoko Ono Supervised A Remixing Of Plastic Ono Band For Its Remastered CD Reissue Including Two Bonus Tracks Lennon's 1971 Hit Power To The People And Do The Oz Which Had Appeared On The 1998 Box Set John Lennon Anthology. In 2003 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Reissued The Album In 24 Karat Gold CD Audio And 180 Gram 1/2 Speed Mastered GAIN 2 Ultra Analog In Vinyl Reissues. Album Artwork
The Album's Cover Is Almost Identical To Ono's Companion Piece Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band—the Difference Being That On Ono's Cover She Is Lying On Lennon's Body. The Photo Was Snapped With A Consumer-Grade Instamatic Camera By Actor Daniel Richter Who Worked As An Assistant For The Lennons At The Time. The Initial Compact Disc Issue Of The Album Listed The Title And Artist While The 2000 Remastered Version Restores The Original Artwork. In Addition The Original LP Did Not Feature A Track Listing On The Back. Instead The Back Cover Showed What Appears To Be A School Photo Of Lennon In His Youth Circa 1946 . Reception Plastic Ono Band Was Received With High Critical Praise Upon Release. Critic Greil Marcus Remarked "John's Singing In The Last Verse Of 'God' May Be The Finest In All Of Rock." In Early 1971 The Album Reached #11 In The UK And Went To #6 In The US Spending Eighteen Weeks In The Top 100. In 2000 Q Magazine Placed Plastic Ono Band At Number 62 In Its List Of The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987 It Was Ranked #4 On Rolling Stone's List Of The 100 Best Albums Of The Period 1967-1987 And In 2003 It Was Placed At #22 In Their List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. In 2006 The Album Was Placed By Pitchfork Media At Number 60 Of Its Top 100 Albums Of The 1970s List. In 2006 The Album Was Chosen By Time Magazine As One Of The 100 Best Albums Of All Time. Miscellanea
Phil Spector A Co-Producer On This Album Played Piano On Love. Look At Me Dates From The Beatles Period And Is Built On A Finger-Picking Guitar Pattern Very Similar To The One Lennon Used In Dear Prudence Happiness Is A Warm Gun And Julia. Lennon Learned This Guitar Technique From Donovan While The Two Were In Rishikesh. Professional Reviews
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Plastic Ono Band Is The Debut Solo Album By English Rock Musician John Lennon. It Was Released In 1970 After Lennon 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. Plastic Ono Band Is Generally Considered One Of Lennon's Finest Solo Albums And A Landmark Recording. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Is Generally Considered One Of Lennon's Finest Solo Albums And A Landmark Recording. Rolling Stone Named It The Twenty-Second Greatest Album Of All Time. HistoryThe "Plastic Ono Band" In The Album's Title Refers To The Conceptual Band Lennon And Ono Had Formed In 1969 Of Various Supporting Musicians They Would Use On Their Various Solo Albums. After The Beatles' Break-Up In April 1970 Both Lennon And Ono Undertook Primal Therapy With The Guidance Of Arthur Janov For Four Months In Los Angeles. Forced To Confront The Traumas Of His Childhood Abandonment Isolation And Death Lennon Finally Let His Submerged Anger And Hurt Rise To The Surface And Dealt With It Through His Art. Similarly Ono's Concurrently-Recorded Album Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band Was A Form Of Catharsis For Her. Returning To England That September Lennon And Ono Called Upon Phil Spector Who Had Produced Lennon's Hit Instant Karma! Earlier That Year To Co-Produce Both Their Albums With Them At Abbey Road Studios. Ringo Starr Played Drums While Klaus Voormann An Old Pal Of The Beatles From Germany – And A Former Member Of Manfred Mann – Played Bass. Billy Preston Who Had Already Worked With The Beatles Supplied Piano For God. Lennon Himself Performed All Guitar Duties Playing Most Of The Piano As Well. The Music Itself Was Kept Very Basic And Direct In Arrangement. Throughout The Album Lennon Touches Upon Many Issues The Abandonment Of His Parents In Mother The Castigation Of Class Issues In Working Class Hero One Of The First Pop Songs To Feature The Word "fuck" A Reminder That Despite His Rage And Pain Lennon Still Embraces Love And God A Renouncement Of External Saviours Including Famously The Beatles. Here Lennon States That He Believes Only In Himself And His Wife Yoko. In 2000 Yoko Ono Supervised A Remixing Of Plastic Ono Band For Its Remastered CD Reissue Including Two Bonus Tracks Lennon's 1971 Hit Power To The People And Do The Oz Which Had Appeared On The 1998 Box Set John Lennon Anthology. In 2003 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Reissued The Album In 24 Karat Gold CD Audio And 180 Gram 1/2 Speed Mastered GAIN 2 Ultra Analog In Vinyl Reissues. Album Artwork
The Album's Cover Is Almost Identical To Ono's Companion Piece Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band—the Difference Being That On Ono's Cover She Is Lying On Lennon's Body. The Photo Was Snapped With A Consumer-Grade Instamatic Camera By Actor Daniel Richter Who Worked As An Assistant For The Lennons At The Time. The Initial Compact Disc Issue Of The Album Listed The Title And Artist While The 2000 Remastered Version Restores The Original Artwork. In Addition The Original LP Did Not Feature A Track Listing On The Back. Instead The Back Cover Showed What Appears To Be A School Photo Of Lennon In His Youth Circa 1946 . Reception Plastic Ono Band Was Received With High Critical Praise Upon Release. Critic Greil Marcus Remarked "John's Singing In The Last Verse Of 'God' May Be The Finest In All Of Rock." In Early 1971 The Album Reached #11 In The UK And Went To #6 In The US Spending Eighteen Weeks In The Top 100. In 2000 Q Magazine Placed Plastic Ono Band At Number 62 In Its List Of The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987 It Was Ranked #4 On Rolling Stone's List Of The 100 Best Albums Of The Period 1967-1987 And In 2003 It Was Placed At #22 In Their List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. In 2006 The Album Was Placed By Pitchfork Media At Number 60 Of Its Top 100 Albums Of The 1970s List. In 2006 The Album Was Chosen By Time Magazine As One Of The 100 Best Albums Of All Time. Miscellanea
Phil Spector A Co-Producer On This Album Played Piano On Love. Look At Me Dates From The Beatles Period And Is Built On A Finger-Picking Guitar Pattern Very Similar To The One Lennon Used In Dear Prudence Happiness Is A Warm Gun And Julia. Lennon Learned This Guitar Technique From Donovan While The Two Were In Rishikesh. Professional Reviews
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- Rolling Stone