{"id":77759,"date":"2025-08-18T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77759\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:58:12","slug":"people-may-not-realise-how-special-it-is-for-me-to-hear-my-dad-talking-or-to-see-him-yoko-and-sean-ono-lennon-announce-new-lennon-box-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77759\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him\u201d: Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon announce new Lennon box set"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s another hefty John Lennon<\/a> box set on its way.<\/p>\n

After last year\u2019s Mind Games reissue, comes Power To The People, which looks at the 1971 – 1972 era. These were John and Yoko\u2019s early years in New York, when the couple fell in with activists Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the time of the heavily-politicised Some Time In New York City album.<\/p>\n

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Power To The People includes a \u2018reimagined\u2019 and remixed version of that album, together with a treasure trove of unreleased tracks, demos, out-takes, home recordings and studio jams.<\/p>\n

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It also includes the two One To One concerts Lennon and Ono gave at Madison Square Garden, New York in August 1972, which were featured in last year\u2019s One-to-One: John and Yoko documentary.<\/p>\n

A pair of benefit gigs for the children at the Willowbrook institution on Staten Island, they would mark the last time Lennon would play a full concert.<\/p>\n

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At the time, Lennon enthused about the shows, telling the NME: \u201cThat Madison Square Garden gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since The Cavern or even Hamburg. It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles<\/a> used to really get into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Yoko, writing in the preface to Power To The People, describes the One To One concerts as \u201cour effort in Grassroots Politics. It embodied what John and I strongly believed in \u2013 Rock for Peace and Enlightenment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Co-ordinating the package is Sean Ono Lennon, who in a statement, said: \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. People may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him.<\/p>\n

“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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on the Today TV programme with host Eamonn Andrews in April 1969. Andrews started the programme in a bed before John and Yoko emerged from a bag at the foot of the bed. The new box set covers the years 1971-72. (Image credit: Keystone-France)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was eleven, my mum put out the Live In New York City album and film. 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.<\/p>\n

“For the concerts, we 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 there was 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

Power To The People comes in a variety of editions, ranging from a single CD of a hybrid of both the One To One concerts to a double CD of both shows, right up to the Super Deluxe edition, which features nine CDs, three Blu-Ray discs, a 204-page book, poster, postcards, stickers, and more.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all out on October 10, the day after what would have been the ex-Beatle\u2019s 85th birthday. Now there\u2019s a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s another hefty John Lennon box set on its way. After last year\u2019s Mind Games reissue, comes Power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-77759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}