Plastic Ono Band
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| Plastic Ono Band | |
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 Plastic Ono Band, 1969. L-R: Klaus Voorman, Alan White, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, and Eric Clapton.
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| Background information | |
| Origin | London, United Kingdom |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Avant-garde |
| Years active | 1969–1975 2009–present |
| Label(s) | Apple |
| Associated acts | The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Yes, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Yoko Ono |
| Members | |
| Yoko Ono Sean Lennon Cornelius Yuka Honda Yuko Araki Hirotaka Shimizu Shahzad Ismaily Erik Friedlander Michael Leonheart Daniel Carter Indigo Street |
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| Former members | |
| John Lennon George Harrison Ringo Starr Eric Clapton Klaus Voormann Billy Preston Phil Spector Alan White |
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The Plastic Ono Band is a conceptual supergroup formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 before the dissolution of The Beatles. Amongst the various members of the band were Eric Clapton, two Beatles (George Harrison and Ringo Starr), old friend Klaus Voorman, future Yes drummer Alan White, members of Delaney and Bonnie, The Who's drummer Keith Moon, New York band Elephant's Memory, Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, Phil Spector, and drummer Jim Keltner.
In 1968, John Lennon began his personal and artistic relationship with Yoko Ono by collaborating on the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins. After a second volume, Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions appeared in the spring of 1969, Lennon and Ono decided that all of their future endeavours would be credited to the Plastic Ono Band. Its credo, "YOU are the Plastic Ono Band", implied that everyone was part of the group. In fact, the Plastic Ono Band was an identity to describe works by Lennon and Ono and whoever happened to be performing with them. Lennon and Ono would both use the nomenclature for years on their future solo albums. The single release of "Give Peace a Chance" in July 1969, recorded in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec with many participants, was the first release to bear the credit of Plastic Ono Band.
The only album solely credited to the Plastic Ono Band, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival in September that year and featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass (an old friend of Lennon's from Germany, who was famous for the cover art of the Beatles' Revolver album), and Alan White (later of Yes) on drums. Fronting the group, naturally, were Lennon and Ono.
Just after its recording, "Cold Turkey", Lennon's tale of breaking his brief heroin addiction, was released as a single under the banner of the Plastic Ono Band, again featuring the Live Peace In Toronto 1969 line-up. By early 1970, Lennon and Ono had begun adding their names to their releases ("Instant Karma!" coming out as "John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Band", and their two proper solo debut albums: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band). By 1971 the name was being used as a secondary credit, with Lennon's and Ono's names the most prominent on their solo ventures, and with occasional variances (e.g., "the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band", "the Plastic U.F.Ono Band," or, when they performed with Frank Zappa, "the Plastic Ono Mothers").
The upcoming Yoko Ono album Between My Head and the Sky will be credited to Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. It will be the first use of the Plastic Ono Band name since the 1975 compilation Shaved Fish. The all-new lineup includes Sean Lennon, Cornelius and Yuka Honda, amongst others.
[edit] DVD Releases
Shout! Factory will release the only recorded concert, Live in Toronto ’69, on DVD in June 2009. This set will include the live release of Abbey Road, in addition to famous Beatles covers. Also included on the disc is an interview with Yoko Ono from 1988.
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