{"id":162599,"date":"2026-03-13T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:52:07","slug":"john-yoko-live-in-nyc-to-be-released-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162599\/","title":{"rendered":"John & Yoko Live in NYC\u2019 To Be Released In Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August of 1972, John Lennon<\/a> and Yoko Ono<\/a>\/Plastic Ono Band headlined the historic One to One Benefit Concerts at Madison Square Garden. 54 years later, the footage from those shows has been remastered and will arrive in theaters as Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 20th\u2014John and Yoko\u2019s wedding anniversary\u2014before the film releases worldwide in late April and early May.<\/p>\n

Those shows were ultimately John\u2019s only full-length concert performances after leaving The Beatles. \u201cThe One To One concert was our effort in Grassroots Politics,\u201d Yoko Ono Lennon wrote in the preface to the Power To The People box set. \u201cIt embodied what John and I strongly believed in \u2013 Rock for Peace and Enlightenment. And this one in Madison Square Garden turned out to be the last concert John and I did together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The restoration of this footage has been decades in the making, with every frame physically and digitally cleaned by hand. Power To The People has been newly restored, re-edited and remixed by the Lennons\u2019 GRAMMY-Award winning team, led by Sean Ono Lennon.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad\u2019s last concert,\u201d Ono Lennon shares. \u201cI feel very grateful I got to work on it because he did plan on touring and he didn\u2019t get to, so all we\u2019ve got is this concert. And I think it is very beautiful because it is so unlike what people were doing at the time\u2026 He just wanted to go back to basics and be raw and spontaneous and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

He continues: \u201cMaybe not everyone realizes 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Originally filmed by multi-camera director Steve Gebhardt in 1972, the 2026 version of the concert film is directed by Simon Hilton, edited by Ben Wainwright-Pearce, and produced by Peter Worsley and Sean Ono Lennon. Music Production is by Sean Ono Lennon; mixed and engineered by Paul Hicks and Sam Gannon.\n<\/p>\n

Shop John Lennon & Yoko Ono\u2019s music on limited edition vinyl and CDs here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August of 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono\/Plastic Ono Band headlined the historic One to One Benefit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2298,9,56,63,65,64,67025,67026,601,2299],"class_list":["post-162599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-john-lennon","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-one-to-one-concerts","tag-power-to-the-people","tag-rock","tag-yoko-ono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}