John Lennon - Live in New York City
John Lennon - Live in New York City (1986)
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Rock | 1986 | Capitol - Parlophone/EMI | CDP 7 46196 2
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.
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 seen by many as 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), Lennon 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".
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" and "Born In A Prison", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, in order to create a pure John Lennon album. The video release retained the complete set list including Ono's material.
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.
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.
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"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 / Rolling Stone
(Posted: Apr 10, 1986)
http://www.rollingstone.com/ar.../5945312/live_in_new_york_city
John Lennon - Live in New York City
Tracklisting
1. New York City – 3:38
2. It's So Hard – 3:18
3. Woman is the Nigger of the World – 5:30
4. Well Well Well – 3:51
5. Instant Karma! – 3:40
6. Mother – 5:00
7. Come Together – 4:21
8. Imagine – 3:17
9. Cold Turkey – 5:29
10. Hound Dog – 3:09
11. Give Peace a Chance – 1:00
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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