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Music History Events: albums released December 11
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Albums released December 11:
• 1961 – MILES DAVIS – ‘Someday My Prince Will Come’
• 1968 – BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS – ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’
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• 1970 – JOHN LENNON / PLASTIC ONO BAND – ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’
• 1971 – MOUNTAIN – ‘Flowers of Evil’
• 1972 – THE ROLLING STONES – ‘More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)’
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• 1982 – SLADE – ‘Slade on Stage’
• 1984 – LEONARD COHEN – ‘Various Positions’ (CAN)
• 1992 – ACE OF BASE – ‘Happy Nation’ (DEN)
• 2001 – NO DOUBT – ‘Rock Steady’
• 2001 – MOBB DEEP – ‘Infamy’
• 2007 – RANCID – ‘B Sides and C Sides’
• 2009 – ALICIA KEYS – ‘The Element of Freedom’ (GER, AUS)
• 2012 – GREEN DAY – ‘¡Tré!’
• 2012 – LIFEHOUSE – ‘Almería’
• 2020 – CHRIS CORNELL – ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1’
• 2020 – BUNBURY – ‘Curso de levitación intensivo’
• 2020 – M. WARD – ‘Think of Spring’
• 2020 – TAYLOR SWIFT – ‘Evermore’
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LP 1970: ‘JOHN LENNON / PLASTIC ONO BAND’ (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band)
On December 11, 1970, John Lennon’s first solo album, after the breakup of the Beatles, ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’, was released in London.
For Rolling Stone magazine it is the 22nd best album in history. For others it was the Beatles’ testament and farewell to John. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, after Lennon had been forced to leave the US, where he had travelled to undergo Arthur Janov’s famous primal scream therapy. It had the collaboration of Phil Spector on production, Ringo Starr on drums, Klaus Voorman on bass, John taking care of everything else, except for a piano collaboration with Billy Preston on ‘God’.
On the album Lennon recorded a series of songs that would bring the curtain down on the 60s and on his thirty years of past life with very personal themes such as the abandonment of his parents in ‘Mother’ or the poor quality of life of the working classes in ‘Working class hero’. In ‘I found out’ and in ‘God’ he declares his skepticism for the 60s and for all the ideals and ‘isms’ that the decade generated. (‘I have enough of religion, from Jesus to Paul’ or ‘I don’t believe in the Beatles anymore, I only believe in myself and Yoko’).
Despite the anger and bitterness that his songs exude, he had enough optimism and tenderness left for songs like ‘Hold on’ and ‘Love’. A raw album in arrangements and intentions that meant a real emotional release from John. Listened to carefully, the album reveals the fountains where people like Lenny Kravitz, Joe Strummer or John Lydon drank.
‘Mother’
‘Hold on’
‘I found out’
‘Working class hero’
‘Isolation’
‘Remember’
‘Love’
‘Well, well, well’
‘Look at me’
‘God’
‘My mummy’s dead’
In a 2001 reissue, two tracks were added:
‘Power to the people’
‘Do the oz’ (Lennon/Ono)