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John Lennon: Live in New York City

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Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1986.01.24
Time:
 42:57
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.john-lennon.com
Appears with: The Beatles
Purchase date: 2002.02.20
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] New York City (J.Lennon) - 3:39
[2] It's So Hard (J.Lennon) - 3:19
[3] Woman Is the Nigger of the World (J.Lennon/Y.Ono) - 5:30
[4] Well, Well, Well (J.Lennon) - 3:51
[5] Instant Karma [We All Shine On] (J.Lennon) - 3:40
[6] Mother (J.Lennon) - 5:00
[7] Come Together (J.Lennon/P.McCartney) - 4:21
[8] Imagine (J.Lennon) - 3:17
[9] Cold Turkey (J.Lennon) - 5:30
[10] Hound Dog (J.Leiber/M.Stoller) - 3:10
[11] Give Peace a Chance (J.Lennon) - 1:01

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JOHN LENNON - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

Plastic Ono Elephants Band:
YOKO ONO - Keyboards, Liner Notes
STANLEY BRONSTEIN - Saxophone
WAYNE "Tex" GABRIEL - Lead Guitar
JOHN WARD - Bass
GARY VAN SCYOC - Bass
JIM KELTNER - Drums
RICK FRANK - Drums
ADAM IPPOLITO - Keyboards

TIM CRICH - Engineer
PAUL HAMINGSON - Engineer
GREG COLBY - Engineer
JONATHAN WYPORATH - Music Editor, Sound Editing
PHIL SPECTOR - Recording Supervisor
ROY KOHARA - Art Direction
BOB GRUEN - Cover Photo
JOHN O'BRIEN - Photography

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1985 CD Capitol C2-46196
1986 LP Capitol R-144497
1986 CD EMI/Capitol 12451
1985 CD Capitol/EMI 12451
1985 LP Capitol SV-12451
1985 CS Capitol 4XV-12451
1990 CS Capitol 46196

Recorded Live: August 30, 1972 at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY



John Lennon's concert appearances during his solo years were rare and scattered about, so any live document is worth hearing. Yet this one, the fabled One to One concert at Madison Square Garden, doesn't live up to its legend, however noble the cause (a benefit for the Willowbrook School for Children). Much of the problem, one suspects, is that Lennon concerts tended to be quick, casual one-offs; this material might have really rocked if John had broken the tunes in on the road first. Also, the Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band is a fairly crude bunch of bashers, with Stan Bronstein's flailing sax and surprisingly poor drumming, despite the support of Jim Keltner. So Lennon is pretty much left to his own devices. In the first few numbers he sounds distracted, not in full command, even disconnected from the band. A core primal scream piece "Well Well Well" is given a perfunctory runthrough; "Instant Karma" sounds stiff, with embarrassing drum breaks ("We'll get it right next time," John says); and he makes only one reference to his Beatle past with a heavy-handed "Come Together." Things do improve later on when "Mother" and "Cold Turkey" work up a good lather, and "Hound Dog" is not bad, although the concluding "Give Peace a Chance" is limited to the brief excerpt included on Shaved Fish. Phil Spector was the original producer of the recording, and it's one of his murkier jobs, not nearly as focused as his work on the Concert for Bangla Desh in the very same arena the year before. More from the concert, including some of Yoko's numbers, can be found on the companion video cassette released at the same time.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



"Welcome to the rehearsal," John Lennon says, kidding the audience two songs into the show. Frankly, Lennon, Yoko Ono and their Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band could have used a few more hours of practice before they took the stage August 30th, 1972, at Madison Square Garden, where they headlined a benefit show for mentally handicapped children. On Live in New York City, you can hear the band skid helplessly across the last chords in "Cold Turkey," and Lennon even apologizes for their flat finish on "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)." "We'll get it right next time," he promises.

There was no next time. The Garden show was Lennon's last major concert appearance and his last show with Yoko Ono, who produced this release. (Ono's two spotlight numbers in the show, "Sisters O Sisters" and "Born in a Prison," have not been included here.) But the historic import of the event is only one reason to buy Live in New York City. The others are the soulful gusto of Lennon's singing; the surprising breadth of his set list (punky metal stomps like "Come Together," the primal-scream song "Mother," even a bow to Elvis, "Hound Dog"); and the uninhibited confessional tone of his entire performance, right down to his stage banter and subtle lyric changes.

"Imagine no possessions/I wonder if we can," he muses, questioning the honesty of his then utopian politics. In his anguished screams and the angry screech of his guitar on "Cold Turkey," you can almost hear the yapping of Nixon's immigration hellhounds on his trail. The left-wing New York club band Elephant's Memory, with whom John and Yoko cut Sometime in New York City earlier that year, does a credible backup job here. On "Woman Is the Nigger of the World," they get tough with the song's simple Fifties-style ballad changes, while Lennon summons up a volatile mix of male shame and feminist outrage in his vocal.

All that, and he makes you laugh, too. "This song is another song from one of those albums I made since I left the Rolling Stones," he declares dryly before "Mother." Though it may be a bit underrehearsed, Live in New York City is nevertheless classic Lennon, because it's all here – his humor, pain, anger and unshakable faith in the power of rock & roll to change the world.

DAVID FRICKE - RS 471
© Copyright 2002 RollingStone.com



Not to be confused with the dire Sometime in New York City, this live document was recorded at Madison Square Garden on August 30, 1972--Lennon's last full-length concert performance--but remained in the can until 1986. There's nothing definitive here (with and without the Beatles, Lennon did his best work in the studio), but it's still a real treat to hear passionate live renditions of underappreciated solo numbers such as "Woman Is the Nigger of the World," "Well Well Well," and "It's So Hard," along with righteous run-throughs of "Instant Karma" and "Cold Turkey." John and Yoko's tag-team evisceration of "Hound Dog" is admittedly a little hard to take, and the backing band (Elephant's Memory) rarely catches fire, but the man himself is in top form. Kind of makes you sad that he didn't get out more often.

Dan Epstein - Amazon.com
 

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NEW YORK CITY

Standing on the corner
Just me and Yoko Ono
We was waiting for jerry to land
Up come a man with the guitar in his hand
Singing "have a marijuana if you can"
His name was Davis Peel
And we found that he was real
He sangs"The pope smokes dope everyday"
Up come a police man shoved us up the street
Singin, "power to the people today!"

NYC...NYC...NYC
Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?

Well we went to max’s
Kansas City
Got down the nitty gritty
With the Elephants Memory Band
Laid something down
As the news spread around
About the Plastic Ono
Elephants Memory Band!
Well we played some funky boogie
And laid some tutti frutti
Singing "Long tall sally’s a man"
Up come a preachman trying to be a teacher
Singing "God’s a red herring in grag!"

NYC...NYC...NYC
Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?
Well we did the Staten Island Ferry
Making movies for the telly
Played the fillmore and
Apollo for freedom,
Tried to shake our image
Just a cycling through the village
But found that we had left it back in London.
Well nobody came to bug us, hustle ud or shove us
so we decided to make it our home
If the man wants to shove us out
We gonna jump and shout
The Statue of Liberty said, "come!"

NYC...NYC...NYC
Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?

NYC down in the village
What a bad-ass city!
Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?


IT'S SO HARD

You got to live
You got to love you got to be
Somebody you got to shove
But it's so hard, it's really hard
Sometimes i feel like going down
You got to eat
You got to drink
You got to feel something
You got to worry
It's so hard, it's really hard
Sometimes i feel like going down
But when it's good it's oh so good
And when i hold you in arms baby
Sometimes i feel like going down
You got to run
You got to hide
You got to keep your woman satisfied
But it's so hard, it's really hard
Sometimes i feel like going down


WOMAN IS THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD

Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is...think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it...do something about it

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t belive me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Ah yeah...better screem about it

We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother then
We tell her home is the only place she would be
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t belive me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yeah (think about it)

We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t belive me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yes she is...if you belive me, you better screem about it.

We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance


WELL, WELL, WELL

I took my loved one out to dinner
So we could get a bite to eat
And though we both had been much thinner
She looked so beautiful I could eat her
Well well well oh well

We sat and talked of revolution
Just like to librals in the sun
We talked of womens liberation
And how the hell we could get thing done
Well well well oh well

I took my loved one to a big field
So we could watch the english sky
Were both feeling guilty
And neither one of us knew just why
Well well well oh well


INSTANT KARMA

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who in the hell d'you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun


MOTHER

Mother, you had me I never had you
I wanted you but you didn't want me
So I got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me but I never left you
I needed you but you didn't need me
So I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk so I tried to run
So I got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye


COME TOGETHER

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me


IMAGINE

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religon too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
In a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say i'm a dreamer
But i'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one


COLD TURKEY

Temperature's rising
Fever is high
Can't see no future
Can't see no sky

My feet are so heavy
So is my head
I wish I was a baby
I wish I was dead

Cold turkey has got me on the run

My body is aching
Goose-pimple bone
Can't see no body
Leave me alone

My eyes are wide open
Can't get to sleep
One thing I'm sure of
I'm in at the deep freeze

Cold turkey has got me on the run

Cold turkey has got me on the run

Thirty-six hours
Rolling in pain
Praying to someone
Free me again

Oh I'll be a good boy
Please make me well
I promise you anything
Get me out of this hell

Cold turkey has got me on the run
Oh, oh, oh, oh


HOUND DOG

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time;
you ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time.
You ain't never caught a rabbit
and you ain't no friend of mine.

When they said that you was highclassed,
that was just a lie;
when they said that you was highclassed,
that was just a lie.
You ain't never caught no rabbit,
you ain't no friend of mine.

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time;
you ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time.
You ain't never caught no rabbit
you ain't no friend of mine.

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time;
you ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time.
You ain't never caught a rabbit
you ain't no friend of mine.

Well, they said that you was highclassed,
well, that was just a lie;
well, they said that you was highclassed, babe,
you know it's a lie.
You ain't never caught no rabbit,
you ain't no friend of mine.

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time;
you ain't nothin' but a hound dog,
cryin' all the time.
Elvis, I love you!!
You ain't never caught no rabbit
you ain't no friend of mine.


GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

All we are saying is give peace a chance

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