Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band

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Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Studio album by Yoko Ono

Publication
(s)

December 11, 1970

Label (s) Apple / EMI , Rykodisc Records

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD

Genre (s)

Rock , avant-garde

Title (number)

6 (9, CD)

running time

LP: 40 min 48 s
CD 1997: 65 min 34 s
CD 2016: 74 min 14 s

occupation

Occupation at AOS:

  • Edward Blackwell: drums
  • Charles Haden: Bass
  • David Izenzon: Bass

production

  • Yoko Ono,
  • John Lennon

Studio (s)

EMI Studios London

chronology
Live Peace in Toronto 1969
1969 		Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band Fly
1971

Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band is Yoko Ono's first solo studio album . At the same time, including the three avant-garde albums with her husband John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band's live album, it is Yoko Ono's fifth album. It was released in the UK and USA on December 11, 1970.

History of origin

Before the release of the first studio album Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band , Yoko Ono and John Lennon released three singles under the names Plastic Ono Band and John Lennon (Yoko Ono) with the Plastic Ono Band , with Yoko Ono the B-side and John Lennon the A-side and sang:

  • Give Peace a Chance / Remember Love (Plastic Ono Band - Released July 4, 1969 [US: July 7, 1969])
  • Cold Turkey / Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow) (Plastic Ono Band - Released October 17, 1969 [US: October 20, 1969])
  • Instant karma! (We All Shine On) / Who Has Seen the Wind (John Lennon (Yoko Ono) with the Plastic Ono Band - Released February 6, 1970 [USA: February 20, 1970]).

None of the single b-sides should be used for Yoko Ono's first album.

From April 1970, Yoko Ono and John Lennon underwent primary therapy with Arthur Janov in London for four weeks , followed by four more months in Los Angeles , California .

Arthur Janov developed the primary therapy psychotherapeutic treatment method. This is based on the assumption that catastrophic, painful (traumatic) psychobiological experiences in early childhood can have a lasting negative impact on the entire development and later life of people and that their negative effects can be mitigated and reduced by reliving these experiences and experiences.

The recordings for the John Lennon album John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band , which was lyrically significantly influenced by the primary therapy, began two days after returning from the USA on September 26, 1970 and ended on October 27, 1970.

During the recording sessions on October 8, 1970, Yoko Ono's album Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band was also completed, which as a whole was also influenced by primary therapy. The music on the album seems improvised and even more minimalistic than on John Lennon's album. Yoko Ono mentions in the text accompanying the Onobox CD London Jam that the songs were created from jam sessions without prior practice and that nothing was changed musically afterwards, except that train noises were added (with Paper Shoes ). “John and I felt that we had created 'New Music' together, a mixture of avant-garde jazz rock and East and West”.

The song AOS is not one of the original recordings of the album, it was recorded on February 29, 1968 during a rehearsal for a concert by Yoko Ono in the Royal Albert Hall . In Greenfield Morning I Pushed to Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City a tape was used in which George Harrison sitar plays theme of the song, the two miscarriages of Yoko Ono. The song Paper Shoes is based in the first part of the song on train noises, this rhythm is then maintained. The lyrics of the songs as well as the singing also seem improvised and often consist of just one word (Why , Why Not , Paper Shoes and Touch Me) and / or sounds that are performed by Yoko Ono in different pitches.

Cover

The cover design was done by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The cover photo is from Dan Richter.

Track list

All tracks on the album were composed by Yoko Ono.

page 1

  1. Why - 5:37
  2. Why Not - 9:55
  3. Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City - 5:38

Page 2

  1. AOS - 7:06
  2. Touch Me - 4:37
  3. Paper Shoes - 7:26

CD bonus track (1997/2016)

  1. Open Your Box - 7:35 (1997/2016)
  2. Something More Abstract - 0:44 (1997/2016)
  3. Why (Extended Version) - 8:41 (2016)
  4. The South Wind - 16:38 (1997/2016)

Re-releases

  • The first release of the full album in CD format was by Rykodisc Records on May 20, 1997 and includes three additional songs, with only Something More Abstract coming from the recording sessions. The South Wind is an acoustic demo played by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Open Your Box was recorded at Trident Studios with the same line-up as the album Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band . The recording dates of the last two tracks are not listed in the CD booklet. The CD release was remastered by George Marino and Rob Stevens at Sterling Sound Studios .
  • On November 11, 2016, the remastered album was released on CD and vinyl long-playing record (pressed on black and white vinyl) on the Secretly Canadian / Chimera Music labels . The CD was remastered by Greg Calbi and Ryan Smith, the vinyl album was remastered by Greg Calbi and Sean Lennon . The CD was distributed in a hinged cardboard cover. The song Why (Extended Version) was mixed by Paul Hicks in 2014. The CD comes with a twelve-page illustrated booklet containing information about the album.

Single releases

Why

As a single B-side, Mother (edited version) (by John Lennon) / Why (edited version) (by Yoko Ono) was released from the album in the USA and Germany on December 28, 1970 .

Touch me

In the USA, the single Power to the People (by John Lennon) / Touch Me (by Yoko Ono) was released on March 22, 1971 .

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 182 (3 weeks) 3

literature

  • Katrin Berndt Yoko Ono - In Her Own Write. Your musical creation and the influence of John Lennon . Marburg 1999; ISBN 978-3-8288-8021-4
  • Chip Madinger, Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 (pp. 36-40).
  • Neville Stannard: Working Class Heroes , ISBN 0-907-08092-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 7 ″ single: Give Peace a Chance
  2. ↑ 7 ″ single: Cold Turkey
  3. ↑ 7 ″ single: Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
  4. ↑ US 7 "vinyl single: Mother / Why
  5. ^ German 7 "vinyl single: Mother / Why
  6. ^ USA 7 "vinyl single: Power to the People / Touch Me
  7. ↑ Chart sources: US