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Black Comedy. Running on so, Lennon proves once again that artists like politicians, are best judged by their works, not by what they say in public An excellent byproduct of Lennon's recent wallow in self-pity is his latest record John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple), one of the most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge...
Coproduced by Phil Spector and already in the top ten on the Billboard charts after only four weeks, John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band has a spare, economic deployment of musical means that suits Lennon's soul-baring mood perfectly. / Found Out ("There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky/ Now that I found out I know I can cry") relies for much of its effect on the simple, choked sound of a single guitar strand. Elsewhere Lennon mourns the death of his mother twelve years ago, defines love (as feeling, reaching, needing, freedom) and finally, in God, Lennon...
That was quite some interview that the Beatles' John Lennon laid on the fortnightly Rolling Stone. Hacked of hair and short of beard, John said his Goodbye to All That in some 24,000 unchosen words, accompanied by a running obbligato from Wife Yolco Ono...
...last two weeks, both George and John have released their first solo albums, if we choose to be kind and overlook the live Plastic Ono Band album and John's earlier "experimental" records. The Harrison material is absurdly overproduced, both physically and musically. Someone at Apple seemed to think that George's solo debut called for a boxed three record set, complete with lyrics, a color poster, and different kinds of adorable record labels, all of which is kind of a drag. The inclusion of a third, "free" record, made up of several rather uninspired rock jams between George...
ANDY WARHOL, who struck out boldly into the high and far-off hinterlands of tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...