John Lennon: an unpublished video from his latest shows with Yoko Ono

To anticipate the release of the new box entitled “Power to the People”, which explores the New York period of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and their political activism, a unreleased video with the restored registration of the execution of “Instant Karma! (We all shine on)“The moment is taken from the afternoon show of the” One to One Concerts “, which took place on August 30, 1972 at the Madison Square Garden in New York – John’s only concerts complete after leaving the Beatles, but also the last concerts in which he and Yoko performed together. The recording was previewed on YouTube at 2 pm in New York yesterday, that is exactly the time in which he took place in which he took place The performance 53 years ago.

“That concert at the Madison Square Garden was the best music that I had fun playing since the times of the caver or even Hamburg,” said John Lennon at Nme in 1972 about those evenings: “It was precisely the same feeling that we felt when the Beatles really gave the best of themselves”.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon And from his team, the new “Power to the People” box for out on 10 October was presented in a press release as an “exhaustive collection of 123 tracks, including 90 unpublished songs, which tells the most political era of John and Yoko”. The box ranges from‘hymn against the 1969 war of Plastic Ono Band “Give Peace in Chance“, to a new version of their 1972 album,”Some time in New York City “to historians “One to One Concerts “of that year At the Madison Square Garden in New York.

At the announcement of the box set it had already been shared the unpublished and remixed performance of the Beatles classic “As a together“, With John and Yoko accompanied by the band Elephant’s Memory and the drummer Jim Keltner. Regarding the “One to One Concerts”, in the preface to the box, Yoko Ono wrote: “It was our contribution to politics from below. He represented what John and I firmly believed: rock for peace and lighting. And this, at the Madison Square Garden, turned out to be the last concert that John and I did together. Imagine Peace. Peace. People! “.

For reasons not yet made known, by the box it was omitted a fundamental passage of the time. The piece in question is “Woman is the nigger of the world“, Originally published as the first single of the album of Lennon and Ono as a plastic honor”Some time in New York City“From 1972. While the fans shared their disappointment on the net, coming to talk about censorship, Sean Ono Lennon has never clarified the reasons for the extending of the song and on X/Twitter he has so far limited himself to sharing a post by a user who treats the topic in a quiet.