Lennon (album)

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Lennon (box)
Compilation album by John Lennon

Publication
(s)

4th October 1990

Label (s) EMI Group

Format (s)

Quadruple CD box

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

73

running time

CD 1: 73 min 35 s
CD 2: 76 min 9 s
CD 3: 74 min 25 s
CD 4: 49 min 3 s

occupation
  • various musicians

production

Studio (s)

various

chronology
Imagine: John Lennon (Music from the Motion Picture)
1988 		Lennon (box) John & Yoko: The Interview
1990

Lennon is a four-CD compilation album by John Lennon that contains 73 tracks but does not contain any unreleased recordings. It is the seventh posthumously released album after Lennon's death in 1980. Including the eight solo studio albums, the three avant-garde albums with his wife Yoko Ono , the two live albums, the interview album and the compilation albums, it is John Lennon's 19th album in total . It was released on October 29, 1990 in the UK and on October 4, 1990 in the US .

History of origin

The largest ever compilation album by John Lennon was put together by Mark Lewisohn . The four CDs each have their own covers and are in a cardboard slipcase; further content is a 78-page booklet listing all the lyrics.

The first CD includes four tracks from Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , here in the original mix, three single A-sides, all eleven tracks by John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band and a live track with Frank Zappa .

The second CD includes nine songs from Imagine , three from Some Time in New York City , five from Mind Games , two from Live in New York City, and a single A-side.

The third CD includes nine tracks from Walls and Bridges , six from Rock 'n' Roll , one from Menlove Ave. , as well as the three live tracks Whatever Gets You thru the Night , Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and I Saw Her Standing There , these were released on November 28, 1974 during a concert by Elton John in Madison Square Garden , at which John Lennon appeared as a surprise guest , recorded. This is Lennon's last live appearance in front of a concert audience, released as a 12 '' single in March 1981. I Saw Her Standing There was released in February 1975 as the b-side of the Elton John single Philadelphia Freedom . Elton John released remixed versions of these three tracks in March 1995 as the B-sides of his CD single Made in England .

The fourth CD contains all 14 published songs from the albums Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey sung by John Lennon .

Cover

The cover design was done by Artful Dodgers.

publication

The box was not released as an LP version. The CD release from 1990 has not yet been remastered.

Track list

  • CD 1
  1. Give Peace a Chance - 4:54
  2. Blue Suede Shoes ( Carl Perkins ) - 2:38
  3. Money (That's What I Want) (Bradford / Berry Gordy ) - 3:25
  4. Dizzy Miss Lizzy ( Larry Williams ) - 3:12
  5. Yer Blues ( Lennon / McCartney ) - 3:53
  6. Cold Turkey - 5:02
  7. Instant karma! - 3:12
  8. Mother - 5:06
  9. Hold On - 1:52
  10. I Found Out - 3:35
  11. Working Class Hero - 3:49
  12. Isolation - 2:51
  13. Remember - 4:33
  14. Love - 3:21
  15. Well Well Well - 5:58
  16. Look at Me - 2:53
  17. God - 4:09
  18. My Mummy's Dead - 0:50
  19. Power to the People - 3:03
  20. Well (Baby Please Don't Go) (Ward) - 3:41


  • CD 2
  1. Imagine - 3:01
  2. Crippled Inside - 3:46
  3. Jealous Guy - 4:13
  4. It's so hard - 2:25
  5. Give Me Some Truth - 3:15
  6. Oh My Love (John Lennon / Yoko Ono ) - 2:42
  7. How do you sleep? - 5:33
  8. How? - 3:42
  9. Oh yoko! - 4:18
  10. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon / Yoko Ono) - 3:22
  11. Woman Is the Nigger of the World (John Lennon / Yoko Ono) - 5:14
  12. New York City - 4:29
  13. John Sinclair - 3:28
  14. Come Together ( Lennon / McCartney ) - 4:21
  15. Hound Dog ( Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller ) - 3:10
  16. Mind Games - 4:11
  17. Aisumasen (I'm Sorry) - 4:43
  18. One Day (At a Time) - 3:07
  19. Intuition - 3:07
  20. Out the Blue - 3:20


  • CD 3
  1. Whatever Gets You thru the Night - 3:25
  2. Going Down on Love - 3:54
  3. Old Dirt Road (John Lennon / Harry Nilsson ) - 4:09
  4. Bless You - 4:37
  5. Scared - 4:39
  6. # 9 Dream - 4:48
  7. Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) - 2:55
  8. Steel and Glass - 4:37
  9. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out) - 5:10
  10. Stand by Me ( Ben E. King / Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller) - 3:28
  11. Ain't That a Shame ( Fats Domino / Bartholemew) - 2:30
  12. Do You Wanna Dance ( Bobby Freeman ) - 2:52
  13. Sweet Little Sixteen ( Chuck Berry ) - 3:00
  14. Slippin 'and Slidin' ( Penniman / Bocage / Collins / Smith) - 2:16
  15. Angel Baby (Hamlin) - 3:39
  16. Just Because ( Lloyd Price ) - 4:25
  17. Whatever Gets You thru the Night (Live) - 4:19
  18. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Live) ( Lennon / McCartney ) - 5:58
  19. I Saw Her Standing There (Live) (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:28


  • CD 4
  1. (Just Like) Starting Over - 3:56
  2. Cleanup Time - 2:57
  3. I'm Losing You - 3:56
  4. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - 4:01
  5. Watching the Wheels - 3:31
  6. Woman - 3:32
  7. Dear Yoko - 2:33
  8. I'm Stepping Out - 4:06
  9. I Don't Wanna Face It - 3:21
  10. Nobody Told Me - 3:33
  11. Borrowed Time - 4:28
  12. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess - 2:27
  13. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (Yoko Ono) - 3:31
  14. Grow Old With Me - 3:07

Chart placements

year album Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1990 Lennon - - - - -

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Japan (RIAJ) Japan (RIAJ) Platinum record icon.svg platinum 250,000
All in all Platinum record icon.svg 1 × platinum
 250,000

literature

  • Chip Madinger, Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 (pp. 109-110).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 12 ″ vinyl single: Whatever Gets You thru the Night
  2. ↑ 7 ″ vinyl single: Philadelphia Freedom
  3. ↑ CD single: Made in England