John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

1970 debut solo album by English rock musician John Lennon

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the first solo album by English rock musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970. It was released after Lennon released three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace in Toronto 1969, a live show in Toronto credited to The Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded at the same time 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. It had almost the same cover artwork. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's best solo albums. Rolling Stone named it the twenty-second greatest album of all time.[1]

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Studio album by
Released11 December 1970
Recorded26 September - 23 October 1970, Abbey Road Studios & Ascot Sound Studios
GenreRock, experimental, folk
Length39:45
LabelApple/EMI
ProducerJohn Lennon, Yoko Ono & Phil Spector
John Lennon chronology
Live Peace in Toronto 1969
(1969)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Imagine
(1971)
Singles from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
  1. "Mother"
    Released: 28 December 1970

Track listing

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All songs written by John Lennon.

Side one
  1. "Mother" – 5:34
  2. "Hold On" – 1:52
  3. "I Found Out" – 3:37
  4. "Working Class Hero" – 3:48
  5. "Isolation" – 2:51
Side two
  1. "Remember" – 4:33
  2. "Love" – 3:21
  3. "Well Well Well" – 5:59
  4. "Look at Me" – 2:53
  5. "God" – 4:09
  6. "My Mummy's Dead" – 0:49
2000 reissue bonus tracks
  1. "Power to the People" – 3:22
  2. "Do the Oz" – 3:07 (Lennon/Ono)

Other websites

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  1. "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009.