Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band - Orig UK Apple LP NM

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Yoko Ono
With John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band

Original UK Apple Vinyl LP

Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band

Apple    SAPCOR 17
SAPCOR 17 A-1U  1  R
SAPCOR 17 B-1U  1  T

Sleeve: NM-
(couple of light creases, small sticker residue, tape on seam - NO splits)
Record: NM
(One or two plays! Couple of very light sleeve scuffs)

Actual Item Scans & Photos

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the avant-garde debut album by Yoko Ono, which came after recording three experimental releases with John Lennon and a live album as a member of the Plastic Ono Band. With the exception of one track (recorded with Ornette Coleman), the entire album emerged from one raw and cacophonous freeform session when, improvising throughout, Ono develops and pushes to extremes her characteristic trademark, a strained vocal style derived from Japanese hetai, a vocal technique used in Kabuki performances.

It was recorded simultaneously with her husband's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team.

Initially on Apple Records, through EMI, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was released to considerable critical disdain in 1970, at a time when Ono was being widely blamed for the break-up of The Beatles. Notable exceptions were the estimations of Billboard who called it 'visionary' and critic Lester Bangs who supported it in Rolling Stone. More recently, the album has been credited (like those of The Velvet Underground) with having an influence, particularly on musicians, grossly disproportionate to its sales and visibility. Critic David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, has credited the album with "launching a hundred or more female alternative rockers, like Kate Pierson of the B-52s to current thrashers like L7 and Courtney Love of Hole."

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band failed to chart in the UK but reached #182 in the US.

Cover Artwork
The covers of both Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band albums are nearly identical; Lennon pointed out the difference in their 1980 Playboy interview. ("In Yoko's, she's leaning back on me; in mine, I'm leaning on her.") Both photos were taken with a consumer-grade Instamatic camera on the grounds of Tittenhurst Park (their home at the time) by actor Daniel Richter (as listed in the album's credits) who worked as an assistant for the Lennons at the time.

Track listing
All songs by Yoko Ono.

Side one
"Why" – 5:37
"Why Not" – 9:55
"Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" – 5:38

Side two
"AOS" – 7:06
"Touch Me" – 4:37
"Paper Shoes" – 7:26
 

Personnel
Vocals - Yoko Ono
Guitar - John Lennon
Drums - Ringo Starr
Bass - Klaus Voormann
Engineers - Phil McDonald and John Leckie.
On "AOS"

Trumpet - Ornette Coleman
Drums - Edward Blackwell
Bass - David Izenzon, Charles Haden

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