Given a short cinema release in April 2026, this film remixes and restores John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 One to One concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, John's only full-length post-Beatles concerts. We look at the context: this is shortly after the release of Sometime in New York City, an album which hadn't gone down well with fans or critics. Does this explain the seeming audience relief at hearing songs from other albums? We also look at Yoko Ono as an "anti-rock" vocalist, and discuss Imagine: as this was its only concert performance by its author, did the song escape the singalong anthem status it might otherwise have had?
Power to the People and One to One: John & Yoko are to be released together in a Blu-ray set on 9 April 2027, and you can pre-order the Collector's edition or Standard edition on the John Lennon website.
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Links
Bruce Channel's Hey Baby, part of the brief 1962 harmonica craze into which Love Me Do slotted
Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, which started the popularity for autotune
See also
One to One: John & Yoko
This documentary from Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards reveals plenty, and evokes the chaos and political turmoil of Nixon-era early 1970s America.
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