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 enlarge | Artist: John Lennon
Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $46.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (96 reviews)
Sales Rank: 245712
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4988006823501
ASIN: B0002W5BSW
Release Date: October 11, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Working Class Hero | | • | Love | | • | Well Well Well | | • | Look at Me | | • | God | | • | My Mummy's Dead | | • | Cold Turkey | | • | The Luck of the Irish | | • | John Sinclair | | • | Woman Is the Nigger of the World | | • | What You Got | | • | Watching the Wheels | | • | Dear Yoko | | • | Real Love | | • | Imagine | | • | It's Real |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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John Lennon was celebrated for the ornate and avant-garde adornments he brought to the Beatles, but he also at times responded to a powerful impulse to strip his music to its raw essence. Indeed, Lennon would have flourished in the unplugged era, when the nakedness of his best lyrics and the cutting directness of his astonishing voice would have been in the fore. Since John never got around to doing an acoustic collection, the task has fallen to Yoko Ono, who's pulled together 16 skeletal Lennon tracks, including seven previously unreleased selections. Of particular note are riveting newly surfaced Plastic Ono Band demos of "Well Well Well," "God," and "My Mummy's Dead," and a harsher-than-the-electric version of "Cold Turkey." Three early '70s live recordings and a smattering of later demos flesh out the collection. The booklet includes lyrics, tablature, and chord diagrams, though the liner notes are unfortunately skimpy. --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 91 more reviews...
 ALL OUT TAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 22, 2008
I play acoustic guitar and it's neat to hear John play his, And how he worked thru his songs a must for fans.
 Acoustic February 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not sure what I was expecting when I bought this but, whatever it was, I didn't find it here. Too much of what is here are merely snippets of songs. Looking at the time length of some of the tracks I knew that would be a reality. One review that I read highly recommended hearing the raw power of the acoustic version of "Cold Turkey". Unfortunately, I heard no power nor starkness in this version. I found it to be weak & Lennon's warbling voice quickly got on my nerves. And this was the song I was most looking forward to hear.
The version of "Working Class Hero" presented here is different than the original but reveals nothing new. "Love" is different than the original being based on an acoustic guitar rather than a piano; being a guitarist myself I can appreciate this. It's the way I've almost always performed it myself. "Imagine" is also presented as an acoustic guitar piece, once again, it does present a pleasant difference, the basic beauty of the song shines through elegantly.
There are a few other songs performed live here as "Imagine" was done but there aren't any major revelations involved on this CD. It's basically somebody, & because I don't know who exactly so I won't mention any names or companies, ripping us off a few dollars all in the name of John Lennon. And let's be honest, John Lennon was apparently one of the most straightforward & honest people in the business. Be he saint or sinner I don't think he would've approved of this sham being released while he was alive.
 Kirk Rogers January 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An incredible concert, he should have done 5-6 more, Great product delivered on time, Great merchant an asset to Amazon.com, I rate them A+++
 Never should have been released October 24, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ok, the quality on this album is really really bad. Most of the songs on here are home recordings that should never have been released as an official CD. I can understand releasing this for free so the hardcore fans could hear it. This is at best a bootleg quality recording except they are charging full price and acting like it is professionally done. Which is a complete shame. They tried to "improve" the quality of the home recordings and all it die was turn the recording into a really strange tinny, unnatural sound. The is barrel scraping and money grubbing at its worst. DO NOT BUY.
Horrible, just HORRIBLE August 19, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
John is turning over in his grave!
Yoko must be running out of money to release this one!
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