(Rock) [LP] [16/44.1] John Lennon - Imagine, Happy Xmas, Live in New York City, Shaved Fish, (First US Pressing)(1971-1975), FLAC (tracks)

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Live in New York City
Live album by John Lennon
Released 10 February 1986
Recorded 30 August 1972
Genre Rock, blues rock, hard rock, rock 'n' roll
Length 42:30
Label Parlophone/EMI
Capitol (North America)
Producer Yoko Ono
Professional reviews

* Allmusic 2.5/5 stars link
* Rolling Stone (favorable) link

Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by John Lennon. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being Live Peace in Toronto 1969.
Contents
Performances

Recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lennon performed two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, to raise money for children with mental challenges at friend Geraldo Rivera's request. Rivera introduces Lennon and Ono at the beginning of the album, and he is referenced in Lennon's impromptu revised lyrics in the opening song, "New York City."

The benefit concerts, billed as One to One, also featured other performers in addition to Lennon, including Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and Sha-Na-Na, although their performances are not included on this album, nor on the simultaneous video release.

Live in New York City captures John Lennon's last full-length concert performance, coming right after the release of Some Time in New York City, which was a commercial failure in the United States. Perhaps as a result, Lennon's stage talk, while humorous, is self-deprecating and slightly nervous in tone. Backing Lennon and Ono were Elephant's Memory, who had served as Lennon and Ono's backing band on Some Time in New York City. Although the material Lennon performed was largely drawn from his three most recent albums of the period (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Some Time in New York City), he also included in the setlist his Beatles hit "Come Together" and paid tribute to Elvis Presley with "Hound Dog" before leading the audience in a singalong of "Give Peace a Chance".
Criticism and editing

Upon its early 1986 release, Ono was criticized by former members of Elephant's Memory for using the first – and weaker – performance instead of the stronger evening show. They also took issue with the simultaneous video release of the concert, which it was alleged had been edited to show Ono as prominently as Lennon. However, in fact, on the album release, Ono's vocal performances on such numbers as "Hound Dog" had been mixed out completely. Additionally, all of her solo performances, which included "Sisters O Sisters", "Born In A Prison", "Don't Worry Kyoko", "Move On Fast" and "Open Your Box", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, in order to create a pure John Lennon album. The video release retained the John Lennon complete set-list including Yoko's "Sisters O Sisters" and "Born In A Prison".

Portions of the evening performance later saw release on the John Lennon Anthology.

Live in New York City reached #55 in the UK, and surprised many with its US appeal where it peaked at #41 and eventually went gold.
Historic significance

The concerts documented on Live in New York City were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since The Beatles retired from the road in 1966. Lennon never mounted a tour during his post-Beatles career. The concerts also marked the last time he would perform live with Ono, as well as the last time he would perform live with Elephant's Memory. The video has yet to see an official DVD and Blu-Ray release. The album however is available on iTunes.
Track listing

All songs by John Lennon, except where noted.

1. "New York City" – 3:38
2. "It's So Hard" – 3:18
3. "Woman is the Nigger of the World" (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:30
4. "Well Well Well" – 3:51
5. "Instant Karma!" – 3:40
6. "Mother" – 5:00
7. "Come Together" (Lennon/McCartney) – 4:21
8. "Imagine" – 3:17
9. "Cold Turkey" – 5:29
10. "Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) – 3:09
11. "Give Peace a Chance" – 1:00 (originally credited to Lennon/McCartney, the credit was revised in the 1990s to cite only John Lennon as its composer)

Personnel

* John Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
* Yoko Ono: keyboards
* Jim Keltner: drums
* Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel: lead guitar
* Gary Van Scyoc: bass guitar
* Stan Bronstein: saxophone
* Adam Ippolito: keyboards
* Richard Frank Jr.: drums

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Shaved Fish
Superimposed on a background consisting mostly of a cloudy, pale blue sky is a three-row by four-column borderless grid. Eleven of the 12 blocks in the grid contain the title from one of the songs on the album and an illustration for that song. The 12th block, located in the first row, third column, has a white background. Starting from the top, the words "SHAVED FISH LENNON" are vertically aligned, appearing in large black block capitals with a red dot centred in a separate row between "FISH" and "LENNON"; below "LENNON", in a single row of smaller block capitals, are the words "PLASTIC ONO BAND".
Compilation album by John Lennon
Released 24 October 1975
Recorded June 1969 – July 1974
Genre Rock
Length 41:55
Label Apple/EMI
Producer John Lennon, Yoko Ono
& Phil Spector
Professional reviews

* Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
* Rolling Stone (Not Rated)[2]
* Robert Christgau B+[3]

Shaved Fish is the seventh album by John Lennon, released in October 1975 on Apple Records, catalogue SW 3421. It is a compilation of singles, comprising every one that he had issued in the United States as a solo artist with the exception of "Stand By Me" from earlier in the year. The only compilation of his non-Beatles recordings released during his lifetime, it was a commercial success, reaching #5 in the UK and #12 in the US, ultimately going platinum.[4] It is currently out of print in any format, although all of its songs can be found on the Working Class Hero compilation and the Gimme Some Truth box set.
Content

The compilation includes many of Lennon's most popular solo recordings, five of which had not yet appeared on an album: "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma!," "Power to the People," the holiday single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," and "Give Peace A Chance." The latter appeared in truncated form, split to begin side one and end side two. Eight of these singles made the Top 40 on the Billboard chart, with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" going to #1; five made the Top Ten in the United Kingdom. "Imagine," never a single in the UK, was issued as such concurrent to the release of this album, going to #5 in the UK chart. Several of the master tapes were unavailable for the compilation, and dubs were used, some with shorter fadeouts.[citation needed]

Its release came less than three weeks after the resolution of Lennon's long-running immigration dispute and the birth of Sean Lennon.[5] The name of the album originates from the Japanese food katsuobushi, a kind of dried fish.[6] A later compact disc issue used the original masters,[specify] restoring the full fadeouts of these songs.
Reception

The year the album was released, a Creem magazine reader's poll included it among the top five "Best Reissues" of 1975, placing fourth, behind two Rolling Stones compilations, Made in the Shade and Metamorphosis, and The Basement Tapes.[7]

Robert Christgau called the album "eleven shots in the dark from the weirdest major rock and roller of the early '70s" and said "not counting the two available on must-own albums, the only great cuts are "Instant Karma" (Lennon's best political song) and "#9 Dream" (catchier nonsense pop than McCartney's ever managed)."[3]
Track listing

All songs by John Lennon, except where noted.
Side one
No. Song Length Notes
1 "Give Peace A Chance" 0:58
* Only the first minute of "Give Peace A Chance" is excerpted here
* Issued as a single July 7, 1969 (US) and July 4, 1969 (UK).
* Credited to Lennon/McCartney on the original single issue and vinyl edition of Shaved Fish,[8] the song now appears as credited to Lennon alone.[9]
2 "Cold Turkey" 5:01
* Issued as a single October 20, 1969 (US) and October 24, 1969 (UK).
3 "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)" 3:21
* Issued as a single February 20, 1970 (US) and February 6, 1970 (UK).
4 "Power to the People" 3:21
* Issued as a single March 22, 1971 (US) and March 12, 1971 (UK).
5 "Mother" 5:03
* Exclusive edit, different from the single edit issued on December 28, 1970 (US) of track from Plastic Ono Band. This edit includes the bells at the intro not present on the single edit, and fades-out later than the single but earlier than the LP version.
6 "Woman is the Nigger of the World" (John Lennon, Yoko Ono) 4:37
* Single edit issued on April 24, 1972 (US); a longer version was later released on Some Time in New York City.[10]

Side two
No. Song Length Notes
1 "Imagine" 3:02
* Issued as a single October 11, 1971 (US) and October 24, 1975 (UK).
2 "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" 3:03
* With Elton John on piano and backing vocals.
* Single edit issued September 23, 1974 (US) and October 4, 1974 (UK); a longer version was later released on Walls and Bridges.
3 "Mind Games" 4:12
* Issued as a single October 29, 1973 (US) and November 16, 1973 (UK).
4 "#9 Dream" 4:47
* Issued as a single December 16, 1974 (US) and January 31, 1975 (UK).
5 "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" /
"Give Peace A Chance (Reprise)" (Lennon, Ono) 4:15

* "Happy Xmas" issued as a single on December 1, 1971 (US) and November 24, 1972 (UK).
* An excerpt from a live performance of "Give Peace A Chance" recorded at the 1972 "One to One" concerts is crossfaded into the song's ending.[citation needed]

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