Artist: John Lennon Genre(s):
Pop
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon (CD 2) Year: 2005
Tracks: 19
Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon (CD 1) Year: 2005
Tracks: 19
Rock 'N' Roll (Remastered) Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Rock 'n' Roll Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Mind Games Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Milk and Honey Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Imagine Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Antology Dakota CD4 Year: 1998
Tracks: 26
Anthology The Lost Weekend CD3 Year: 1998
Tracks: 24
Anthology New York City CD2 Year: 1998
Tracks: 23
Anthology Ascot CD1 Year: 1998
Tracks: 21
Anthology (CD 4) - Dakota Year: 1998
Tracks: 26
Anthology (CD 3) - The Lost Weekend Year: 1998
Tracks: 24
Anthology (CD 2) - New York City Year: 1998
Tracks: 23
Anthology (CD 1) - Ascot Year: 1998
Tracks: 21
Wonsaponatime Year: 1997
Tracks: 21
Lennon Legend Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
Double Fantasy Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
Live In New York City Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Menlove Avenue (Sessions 1974-75) Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Menlove Avenue Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
John Lennon Collection Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
Shaved Fish Year: 1975
Tracks: 11
Mind Games (Digitally Remixed and Remastered 2002) Year: 1973
Tracks: 15
Sometime In New York City Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
OZ SP Year: 1971
Tracks: 2
Imagine (Digitally Remastered and Remixed 2000) Year: 1971
Tracks: 10
Plastic Ono Band Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto Year: 1969
Tracks: 8
Single Hits Year: 1969
Tracks: 7
Walls and Bridges Year:
Tracks: 12
Singles Year:
Tracks: 7
Live Jam Year:
Tracks: 6
Out of all the Beatles, John Lennon had the to the highest degree interesting -- and thwarting -- solo vocation. Lennon was subject of elysian, savagely honest confessional songwriting and melodic songcraft; he likewise had a leaning to rest on his honor, roiled stunned straight-ahead
rock & swan without very much care. But the extremes, both in his music and his life, were what made him gripping. Where Paul McCartney was mental object to be a john Rock star, Lennon splattered in everything from revolutionary political relation to the idiot box talk show circuit during the early '70s. After releasing a geminate of acclaimed albums,
Bathroom Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and
Guess, in the early '70s, Lennon undone into an infamous "deep in thought weekend" where his musical production was emphatically uneven and his public behaviour was a great deal mortifying. Halfway through the decade, he sobered up and retired from acting to become a house husband and father-God. In 1980, he launched a comeback with his married woman Yoko Ono, cathartic the duet album
Double Fantasy that fall. Just as his career was on an upswing, Lennon was tragically assassinated outside of his New York apartment edifice in December of 1980. He left field behind an enormous bequest, not only as a musician, just as a writer, role player and militant.
Considering the magnitude of his achievements with the Beatles, Lennon's solo career is relatively overlooked. Even during the stature of Beatlemania, Lennon began exploring outside of the group. In 1964, he published a aggregation of his hagiographa called In His Own Write, which was followed in 1965 by A Spaniard in the Works, and in 1966, he appeared in Dick Lester's comedy
How I Won the War. He didn't quest for a musical career external of the chemical group until 1968, when he recorded the experimental interference collage
Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins with his new buff, van artist Yoko Ono.
Two Virgins caused considerable contention, both because of its subject and its cover artistry, which featured a nude photograph of Lennon and Ono. The duo married in Gibraltar in March 20, 1969. For their honeymoon, the mate arranged the first of many political demonstrations with their "Bed-In for Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton. Several months by and by, the vanguard records
Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life With the Lions and
The Wedding Album were released, as was the individual "Render Peace a Chance," which was recorded during the Bed-In. During September of 1969, Lennon returned to live performances with a concert at a Toronto
rock candy & roll festival. He was supported by the Plastic Ono Band, which featured Ono, guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White. The following month, Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band released "Cold Turkey," which was about his battle with heroin addiction. When the individual failed to make the Top Ten in Britain and America, Lennon sent his MBE back to the Queen, protesting Britain's affair in Biafra, America's affair in Vietnam and the inadequate chart performance of "Cold Turkey."
Earlier the dismission of "Cold Turkey," Lennon had told the Beatles that he planned to leave the group, just he agreed not to publicly announce his intentions until after Allen Klein's negotiations with EMI on behalf of the Beatles were single-minded. Lennon and Ono continued with their political campaign for peace, spread billboards with the catchword "War Is Over! (If You Want It)" in 12 discriminate cities. In February of 1970, he wrote, recorded and released the single "Instant Karma" inside the span of the workweek. The individual became a major strike, reach the Top Ten in both the U.K. and the U.S.. Two months subsequently "Inst Karma," Paul McCartney announced that the Beatles were rending up, agitative the anger of Lennon. Much of this anger was vented on his first full-fledged solo album,
Saint John the Apostle Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, a scathingly honest confessional work inspired by his and Ono's fundamental shrieking therapy. Lennon supported the record album with an blanket interview with Rolling Stone, where he debunked many of the myths encompassing the Beatles. Early in 1971, he released another protest unmarried, "Ability to the People," earlier moving to New York. That fall, he released
Conceive of, which featured the Top Ten title track. By the time
Imagine became a hit record album, Lennon and Ono had returned to political activism, in public supporting American radicals care Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and John Sinclair. Their increased political intimacy resulted in the double-album
Sometime in New York City, which was released in the summer of 1972. Recorded with the New York hippy set Elephant's Memory,
Quondam in New York City consisted exclusively of political songs, many of which were criticized for their simpleness. Consequently, the album sold peaked and tarnished Lennon's report.
Sometime in New York City was the beginning of a three-year down spiral for Lennon. Shortly in front the album's release, he began his long, involved battle with U.S. Immigration, wHO refused to give him a green scorecard due to a article of faith for marijuana willpower in 1968. In 1973, he was consistent to exit America by Immigration, and he launched a full-scale struggle against the department, oft assaultive them in world.
Mind Games was released in late 1973 to assorted reviews; its title track became a control tally. The next year, he and Ono spaced, and he moved out to Los Angeles, beginning his year-and-a-half long "lost weekend." During 1974 and 1975, Lennon lived a life of riot in Los Angeles, partying voiceless with such celebrities as Elton John, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, David Bowie and Ringo Starr.
Walls and Bridges appeared in November of 1974, and it became a strike due to the inclusion of "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," a sung dynasty he wrote with Elton John. At the end of the year, John helped reunite Lennon and Ono, convincing the ex-Beatle to appear during one of his concerts; it would be Lennon's final performance.
Rock & Roll, a compendium of rock candy oldies recorded during the lost weekend, was released in the springiness of 1975. A few months earlier its official release, a corn liquor of the album called Roots was released by Morris Levy, wHO Lennon later sued successfully. Lennon's immigration struggle neared its completion on October 7, 1975, when the U.S. homage of appeals upset his expatriation order; in the summer of 1976, he was in the end given his green scorecard. After he appeared on David Bowie's
Whitney Young Americans, co-writing the strike song "Renown," Lennon quietly retired from music, choosing to become a house husband following the October birth of his son, Sean Lennon.
During the summer of 1980, Lennon returned to recording, sign language a new reduce with Geffen Records. Comprised equally of material by Lennon and Ono,
Double Fantasy was released in November to overconfident reviews. As the album and its incidental single, "(Just now Like) Starting Over," were climbing the charts, Lennon was assassinated on December 8 by Mark David Chapman. Lennon's death elysian recondite brokenheartedness from the entire world; on December 14, millions of fans around the world participated in a ten-minute silent vigil for Lennon at 2 p.m. EST.
Double Fantasy and "(Just Like) Starting Over" both became number one hits in the wake of his death. In the years after his death, several albums of unreleased recordings appeared, the first of which was 1984's
Milk and Honey; perchance the near satisfying was the 1998 four-disc box typeset
Anthology, issued in conjunction with a single-disc sampler coroneted
Wonsaponatime.
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