John Lennon

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	John Lennon Live Peace in Toronto - 1969 1969 Apple Records		Blue Suede Shoes Money Dizzy Miss Lizzie Yer Blues Cold Turkey Give Peace a Chance	Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's only ... . looking for her hand in the snow) John, John (Let's hope for peace)
Not really John's first solo performance (check out The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus), but officially this is his first solo album. Recorded on a lark at a concert (on a lark) headlined by Lennon, who reportedly was violently ill with nerves before the plane even landed! Recruiting friends Eric Clapton and Klaus Voorman, John covered some classics, threw in a Beatle tune, and premiered his new song ('Cold Turkey') before turning the mic over to Yoko for 30 minutes of screaming, yelping, and other such carrying on.

	John Lennon Plastic Ono Band 1970 Capitol Records		Mother Hold On I Found Out Working Class Hero Isolation	Remember Love Well, Well, Well Look at Me God My Mummy's Dead
John's first solo album proper. This record emotionally attacks everything in sight and leaves nothing standing when it's all over. John apparently was a troubled soul, a great work in duality: wanting peace but more than willing to get into a scathing verbal attack on whatever poor sap gets in his way. A brutally honest and emotionally challenging album.

	John Lennon Imagine 1971 Apple Records		Imagine Crippled Inside Jealous Guy It's So Hard I Don't Want to Be a Soldier	Gimme Some Truth Oh My Love How Do You Sleep? How? Oh Yoko!
Probably the most commerical, and best, album from John's early years as a solo artist. The classic title song, the odes to Yoko, the scathing jabs at Paul. This album has it all.

	John Lennon Sometime in New York City 1972 Apple Records		Woman is the Nigger of the ............................. World Sisters O Sisters Attica State Born in a Prison New York City _______________	Sunday Bloody Sunday Luck of the Irish John Sinclair Angela We're All Water _______________
			John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Well (Baby Please Don't Go) Jamrag Scumbag Au	Live Jam - John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with a cast of 1000's Cold Turkey Don't Worry Kyoko
This is a terrible record. I'm sorry, but it is. There is absolutely nothing redeeming at all about this mess. The songs are WAY too political, and turned off even John's stuanchest supporters. The live jams on the second disc are just a hodge podge of noise with Yoko and John writhing around on stage in a bag. Blecchh!

	John Lennon Mind Games 1973 Capitol Records		Mind Games Tight A$ Aisumasen (I'm Sorry) One Day (At a Time) Bring on the Lucie (Freda ............................. Peeple) Nutopian International Anthem	Intuition Out of the Blue Only People I Know (I Know) You Are Here Meat City
Well, at least he's trying . . . Actually, there are some good tunes here, but John simply misses something when Paul is not around.

	John Lennon Walls and Bridges 1974 Capitol Records		Going Down on Love Whatever Gets You Thru the ................................ Night Old Dirt Road What You Got Bless You Scared	# 9 Dream Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird ...............of Paradox) Steel and Glass Beef Jerky Nobody Loves You (When .....You're Down and Out) Ya Ya
A surprising # 1 hit in 'Whatever Gets You Thru the Night' leads off this last album of original material John would do until 1980. '# 9 Dream' is also an awesome song!

	John Lennon Shaved Fish 1975 Apple Records		Give Peace a Chance Cold Turkey Instant Karma! Power to the People Mother Woman is the Nigger of the ................................ World	Imagine Whatever Gets You Thru the ....................... Night Mind Games # 9 Dream Happy Xmas (War is Over) Reprise: Give Peace a Chance
The obligatory 'best of' collection issued by Apple Records in lieue of a new Lennon album. He effectively retired after Walls and Bridges, but was drawn into the studio for one last album of legal obligation (see next entry). Still, this was a cool album to have - it puts all of his early singles in one collection.

	John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll 1975 Capitol Records		Be-Bop-A-Lula Stand By Me Medley: Ready Teddy / ..... ..... ..... ..... Rip It Up You Can't Catch Me Ain't That a Shame Do You Want to Dance Sweet Little Sixteen	Slippin' and Slidin' Peggy Sue Medley: Bring It On Home to ...Me / Send Me Some Lovin' Bony Moronie Ya Ya Just Because
In the 70s, John was found guilty of plagiarising Chuck Berry's 'You Can't Catch Me' in 'Come Together' (Abbey Road, The Beatles). For some reason, as legend would have it, part of the settlement was that John would record 'You Can't Catch Me' and repay Berry through the royalties of that record. (This I can't swear to, but that's what I heard.) Anyway, legend still says that while recording this song, John decided to record an entire album's worth of 50s classics - the stuff he grew up on. And this is the Lennon I remember: John the Rocker. I've always had trouble with the Peacenik image, only because he was never really that peaceful a man. There was alot of love in John, but there was also alot of rage, too. Anyway, a cool record and a great cover (photo by Astrid Kirscherr, circa Hamburg 1962).

	John Lennon & Yoko Ono Double Fantasy 1980 Geffen Records		(Just Like) Starting Over Every Man Has a Woman ......................Who Loves Him Cleanup Time Give Me Something I'm Losing You I'm Moving On Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)	Watching the Wheels I'm Your Angel Dear Yoko Beautiful Boys Kiss Kiss Kiss Woman Hard Times are Over
Everyone knows about this record. Even 20+ years later, I listen to this music, even look at the cover, and I get cholked up. And to be a selfish fan, what really gets me up is that John was going to announce a Spring 1981 Tour - his first solo concert tour ever. What that indicates to me is that John finally found the peace he was searching for his whole life, and was happy again to be making music. It would have been great.

	John Lennon & Yoko Ono Milk and Honey - A Heart Play 1984 Polydor Records		I'm Stepping Out Sleepless I Don't Wanna Face It Don't Be Scared Nobody Told Me O Sanity	Borrowed Time Your Hands (Forgive Me) My Little Flower ............................... Princess Let Me Count the Ways Grow Old with Me You're the One
A bittersweet record, if ever there was one. Yoko released this record four years after John's murder. It contains unreleased tracks and one demo from the Double Fantasy sessions. When listening to John' s songs ('Borrowed Time' and 'Grow Old with Me'), it's hard not to feign irony. Unless prepared for it, this record can be very disturbing and depressing; just knowing that this was the absolute last music this great artist would ever produce (or so we thought!) is still hard to take.

	John Lennon Menlove Ave. 1986 Capitol Records		Here We Go Again Rock 'n' Roll People Angel Baby Since My Baby Left Me To Know Her is to Love Her	Steel and Glass Scared Old Dirt Road Nobody Loves You (When ........ You're Down and Out) Bless You
Capitol Records cashing in on John's legacy. Containing some rarities onm side one, the second side is nothing more than songs from Walls and Bridges. Makes no sense at all.

	John Lennon Live in New York City 1986 Parlophone / EMI Records		New York City It's So Hard Woman is the Nigger of the World Well, Well, Well Instant Karma (We All ..... ..... ..... ..... Shine On)	Mother Come Together Imagine Cold Turkey Hound Dog Give Peace a Chance
Maybe to cash in on his relatively newfoun popularity, or maybe these tapes were just discovered in the vaults, EMI released this posthumous live album. While interesting, the song selections could have been better (concert was in support of Sometime in New York City - not John's best album); the performances are very raw and at times feel unrehearsed. This may be why John never toured on his own.

	John Lennon Practice Tapes 1990 sirtwiggly records		Slippin' & Slidin' Stand By Me Oh My Love Dialogue	Voulez Vous This is John . . . Working Class Hero Day Tripper
Bootlegs from the radio taken from John's demos during his self-imposed exile.

	John Lennon Wanna Bet? 1990 sirtwiggly records		Whatever Gets You ..... ..... Through the Night	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds I Saw Her Standing There
A bootleg of a rare 1974 perfomance. Story goes that Elton John helped out on the recording of 'Whatever Gets You Thru the Night' from Walls and Bridges, and he was so convinced that the song would be a #1 hit, he bet Lennon that if it did, he would have to come onstage in New York during Elton's next tour and play the song. John agreed. The song went to # 1. We all won this bet.


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