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John Lennon, Yoko Ono – Sometime In New York City (1972/2014)
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Studio Master, Official Digital Download Artwork: Digital booklet
Genre: Art Rock, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll Label: © Yoko Ono Lennon , Capitol Records , Calderstone Productions Source: HDtracks
Recorded: Studio: December 1971 – 20 March 1972; Live: 15 December 1969, at Lyceum Ballroom, London; 6 June 1971, at Fillmore East, New York City
Some Time In New York City was originally released in 1972 and is John Lennon’s third post-Beatles solo album, as well as his fifth album with Yoko Ono. Produced by Phil Spector, the album did not fare as well as Lennon’s two previous solo albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine.
The first album co-billed to John Lennon and Yoko Ono to actually contain recognizable pop music, Some Time in New York City found the Lennons in an explicitly political phase. This was understandable — at the time, Lennon was neck-deep in his struggle to remain in the United States, a conflict rooted in his antiwar and antiestablishment politics and the enmity of the Nixon administration. At the same time, having written, recorded, and released the music on the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums — and musically exorcising many of the emotional demons associated with aspects of his past, and working out a musical and publishing “divorce” from Paul McCartney — he was now reveling in the freedom of being an ex-Beatle and exploring music and other subjects that he’d never felt fully free to delve into during the first decade of his career. This album was actually a long time in coming, as there had been hints of Lennon moving in this direction for years — he’d long looked upon Bob Dylan with unabashed envy, emulating his sound at moments (“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”) and striving for some of the same mix of edginess and depth, once the group got beyond its original two-guitars-bass-drums and love songs sound; “Revolution” (and “Revolution No. 1”) and the anthems “Give Peace a Chance” and “Power to the People” saw him trying to embrace outside subjects in his work, and Some Time in New York City carried his writing a step further in this direction, introducing John Lennon, protest singer — true, he was ten years late, in terms of the musical genre (even Joan Baez and Judy Collins were doing pop-style records by then), but it was a logical development given the time in Lennon’s life and the strife-filled era with which it coincided. Seeking his own voice in all of its permutations, and living amid the bracing pace of New York City (which made London, much less Liverpool, look like a cultural and political backwater), Lennon entered a phase similar to Dylan’s 1963-1964 period, represented by songs such as “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “The Death of Emmett Till,” and “Talking John Birch Society Blues.” Except that where Dylan had toned down that side of his work, never officially releasing his versions of two of those songs (the two most confrontational, in fact), Lennon didn’t hold back, delivering his topical songs with both barrels smoking, expounding on such topical subjects as radical feminism, the Attica prison riot, the treatment of activists John Sinclair and Angela Davis, and the rising strife in Northern Ireland (which was on its way to becoming for the British the same kind of military and political quagmire that Vietnam was for America). Lennon had some advantages in getting heard, as an ex-Beatle, not an up-and-coming talent as Dylan had been a decade earlier, and if the subject matter of his new songs puzzled or alienated some fans, he also still had a huge amount of rock & roll street cred, which was only enhanced at the time by his having made Nixon’s enemies list; at the time, there were a lot of people to whom that mattered more than his past as a Beatle — at the April 24 antiwar rally in New York in 1971, where he appeared with Yoko Ono and the Elephant’s Memory Band, he showed himself to be among the few musicians who could get a quarter of a million or more people singing and chanting spontaneously, in unison. And Some Time in New York City was a logical progression from that event. Especially in the case of Lennon’s songs, there is an appealing rock style to the material here, even if the lyrics limit the record’s appeal. And even Yoko’s songs have something to recommend them, “Sisters, O Sisters” representing a peculiar form of reggae-pop, “Born in a Prison” possessing a strange pop ambience, and “We’re All Water” offering a preview of late-’70s punk/new wave rawness (Lena Lovich may well have worn out that track). At the time of its release in June of 1972, all except the most devoted fans were put off by the album’s topicality and in-your-face didacticism, and the bonus live disc was challenging in other ways. Heard today, the studio disc rocks in enough of the right places, as well as drawing on influences ranging from blues to reggae, to surprise listeners and even delight them — the relatively tuneless “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” manages to favorably recall elements of “Come Together,” and both it and “New York City” have some of the best electric guitar ever heard on a Lennon album, while “John Sinclair” shows off Lennon’s blues playing (on a steel National guitar, no less) brilliantly. Even those who were of the left at the time may wince at “Angela” some decades on, but “We’re All Water” has lost none of its intellectual or musical resonances, even if Nixon and Mao are long dead. The Elephant’s Memory Band may not be the best set of musicians that Lennon could have been working with, but that was less important than the fact that he seemed to respond to their club band R&B and jazz background with a roots-oriented approach to songwriting that’s ultimately refreshing. Co-producer Phil Spector gives most of the music a larger-than-life ambience, with a reverb-drenched, rhythm-heavy approach recalling his Wall of Sound productions, which gives a lot of even the most didactic songs a big-band pop/rock smoothness, when the songs weren’t lean and stripped down like “John Sinclair” (which sounds in terms of texture like a Furry Lewis side from 1930). Some Time in New York City was released with a “free” bonus disc containing a live medley of Lennon’s “Cold Turkey” and Ono’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko,” from an antiwar rally at the Lyceum in London with George Harrison, and an appearance by the Lennons at a Mothers of Invention concert from the Fillmore East. The Lyceum tracks were well recorded and, apart from both going on too long, exude a certain power; these may not be the songs you’d have had performed at the one recorded post-Beatles concert appearance by Lennon and Harrison, but “Cold Turkey” is good, if a little disorganized near the end, and “Don’t Worry Kyoko” has some pretty fair rock & roll jamming going on behind Ono’s vocal acrobatics; the Fillmore stuff sounds less good technically, and captures a spontaneous moment that’s mostly wasted, though not without a moment of personal musical reflection from Lennon in “Well (Baby Please Don’t Go).” Alas, the presence of the second disc now makes this the most expensive of all Lennon’s CD releases, virtually ensuring that it remain the least known of his mainline albums, especially for any fans who weren’t around in 1972. –Bruce Eder
Tracklist:
Disc#1
1 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World 05:18
2 Sisters, O Sisters 03:49
3 Attica State 02:57
4 Born In A Prison 04:03
5 New York City 04:40
6 Sunday Bloody Sunday 05:03
7 The Luck Of The Irish 02:57
8 John Sinclair 03:34
9 Angela 04:05
10 We’re All Water 07:14
Disc#2
1 Cold Turkey (Live) 08:35
2 Don’t Worry Kyoko (Live) 16:06
3 Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (Live) 04:41
4 Jamrag (Live) 05:36
5 Scumbag (Live) 04:27
6 Au (Live) 08:08
Personnel:
John Lennon – guitars, vocals
Yoko Ono – vocals
Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
Elephant’s Memory:
Stan Bronstein – saxophone, flute
Wayne ‘Tex’ Gabriel – guitar
Richard Frank Jr. – drums, percussion
Adam Ippolito – piano, organ
John La Boosca – piano
Gary Van Scyoc – bass guitar
The album was recorded between 1969 and 1971, with two sets of musicians.
December 15, 1969
John Lennon – guitar, vocal
Yoko Ono – bag, vocal
For everyone except himself and Yoko, John made up pseudonyms:
Eric Clapton (‘Derek Claptoe’) – guitar
Delaney & Bonnie (‘Bilanie & Donnie’) – guitar, percussion (and friends, brass, percussion)
Jim Gordon (‘Jim Bordom’) – drums
George Harrison (‘George Harrisong’) – guitar
Nicky Hopkins (‘Sticky Topkins’) – electric piano (overdubbed in N.Y. as organ was lost)
Bobby Keyes (‘Robbie Knees’) – sax
Keith Moon (‘Kief Spoon’) – drums
Billy Preston (‘Billy Presstud’) – organ
Klaus Voormann (‘Raus Doorman’) – base (sic)
Alan White (‘Dallas White’) – drums
June 6, 1971
John Lennon – guitar, vocals
Yoko Ono – bag, vocals
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals
Howard Kaylan – vocals
Jim Pons – bass guitar, vocals
Don Preston – Mini-Moog
Ian Underwood – keyboard, vocals, woodwinds
Mark Volman – vocals
Klaus Voormann – bass guitar, vocals
Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
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Some Time in New York City (rendered Sometime in New York City on the record label, inner jacket, and original compact disc) was released in 1972 and is John Lennon's third post-Beatles album, fifth with Yoko Ono and, third with producer Phil Spector. Primarily for its distinction as a dual 'Lennon & Ono' album and being preceded by a controversial single, Some Time in New York City fared poorly critically and commercially compared to Lennon's previous two albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine.John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City in September 1971 and found themselves confronted with fiercely political issues. Living initially in Greenwich Village, they were quickly contacted by activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, appeared at benefits for John Sinclair, and spoke out against the repression of the Attica Prison riots and the jailing of Angela Davis. By January 1972, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had opened a file on Lennon, fearing that he would try to humiliate President Richard Nixon, with the expressed intention of finding grounds to deport Lennon. The couple would be tailed for several months by the FBI, and their every move was documented.
It was against this background that Lennon and Ono hired Elephant's Memory to back them musically, with the assistance of studio drummer Jim Keltner. Their agenda was to protest against the social injustices they saw in the U.S. Phil Spector co-produced the new studio album along with the Lennons from late 1971 to its 20 March 1972 completion date (coincidentally, John & Yoko's third wedding anniversary ). With most of the gatefold cover space taken up by printed lyrics and photographs, the album credits appeared on the first disc's inner sleeve.
Seeking to make the package more attractive, Lennon and Ono's 15 December 1969 live performance of 'Cold Turkey' and 'Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)' at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, from a UNICEF charity show with Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Keith Moon, among others, was unearthed. (However, extended live versions of both songs were already included on the Live Peace in Toronto 1969 album that was released three years earlier). In addition, a sampling of performances with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from a Fillmore East gig in June 1971 was added, in effect creating a bonus live album for the Lennon/Ono faithful. The inner sleeve for the second disc featured Lennon's doodling over the cover of Zappa's album, Fillmore East - June 1971, adding his credits and commentary to Zappa's.
The opening song of the studio album, 'Woman Is the Nigger of the World' (a phrase Ono had coined in the late 1960s), was intended as a negation of sexism and was also issued as a single in the US to controversial reaction, and – as a consequence – little airplay and much banning. The Lennons went to great lengths (including a press conference attended by staff from Jet and Ebony magazines) to explain that the word 'nigger' was being used in an allegorical sense and not as an affront to African-Americans.
Lennon's other tracks include the biographical 'New York City,' an engaging Chuck Berry-styled rocker that details the Lennons' early months in their new home, as well as 'John Sinclair,' his musical plea for Sinclair's release from a ten-year sentence for giving two marijuana joints to an undercover policewoman.
Yoko Ono, very much a feminist supporter, responds musically with 'Sisters O Sisters,' tackles the lacking education system with 'Born In A Prison,' and celebrates a culture of one in 'We're All Water.' In fact, this album is generally seen as the beginning of Ono's emergence as a songwriter after her rather challenging previous two releases.
Together, Lennon and Ono lament police brutality in 'Attica State', the hardships of war-torn Northern Ireland in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'The Luck Of The Irish', and pay tribute to Angela Davis with 'Angela'.
Some Time In New York City was packaged like a newspaper of the events covered in the album, causing even more consternation with an altered photo of Richard Nixon and Mao Tse Tung dancing nude together. (The photo was stickered over on many of the issued copies, with a non-removable seal.)
Coming after Imagine, Some Time In New York City proved a sharp about-face for Lennon fans expecting more of the same when the double album appeared that summer. Critics considered the album overly radical in its political slant, while many of John Lennon's fans stayed away from the double set in droves, causing it to merely limp to #48 in the US. Although the UK release managed a healthy #11 peak, Lennon was devastated at its commercial failure and would not record any music for almost an entire year.
On 30 August 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed two charity shows at Madison Square Garden for the mentally challenged at friend Geraldo Rivera's request; the event was called, 'One To One,' and New York mayor John Lindsay declared the date 'One To One Day.' Both performances were filmed and recorded, with the evening show broadcast on ABC Television, and the earlier matineé show compiled for release as the 1986 live album and video, Live In New York City. It was one of the few times any material from Some Time in New York City was performed by the duo.
Some Time In New York City was remixed, remastered and reissued in November 2005 as a single CD, removing, in the process, several of the 'Live Jam' cuts, while adding on 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)' and 'Listen, The Snow Is Falling.'
Track listing
Disc 1 (studio)
Side 1
'Woman Is the Nigger Of the World' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:15
A shorter, edited version appeared on Shaved Fish, Lennon's 1975 best-ofs album. The full-length version appearing on Sometime in New York City was also issued in the United States as the A-Side of a single in 1972.
'Sisters O Sisters' (Yoko Ono) – 3:46
The B-side to the album's single. Lennon commented in a 1980 interview that the song was intended to have a reggae feel
'Attica State' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 2:54
The Attica Prison riots occurred on 9 September 1971
Ironically, Attica State is where Lennon's murderer is currently incarcerated.
'Born In A Prison' (Yoko Ono) – 4:03
'New York City' (John Lennon) – 4:30
'Jerry' (Rubin) and David Peel are mentioned by name in the lyrics; in a 1972 live performance, 'Jerry' becomes 'Geraldo' (Rivera)
Side 2
'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:00
The Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland occurred on 30 January 1972
Not to be confused with the unrelated U2 hit of the same name (although the two share similar subjects).
'The Luck Of The Irish' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 2:56
'John Sinclair' (John Lennon) – 3:28
John Sinclair was arrested in July 1969 for dealing marijuana, and was released on 13 December 1971, three days after Lennon and Ono performed at a, 'Ten For Two' rally in support of his freedom.
'Angela' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 4:06
Angela Davis was imprisoned pending trial for eighteen months from 1970 to 1972
'We're All Water' (Yoko Ono) – 7:11
The song references numerous famous people, including Nixon and Mao, Lenny Bruce, Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Rubin, Raquel Welch, Queen Elizabeth II, Eldridge Cleaver, Pope Paul VI, Charles Manson, and Nelson Rockefeller (Nelson Rockefeller is also referenced on 'Attica State' on side one.)
Personnel
John Lennon: guitars (including a resonator guitar), vocals.
Yoko Ono: drums, vocals.
Jim Keltner: drums, percussion.
Klaus Voormann: bass guitar.
Elephant's Memory:
Stan Bronstein: flute, saxophone.
Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel: guitar.
Richard Frank Jr.: drums, percussion.
Adam Ippolito: keyboards, piano.
Gary Van Scyoc: bass guitar.
Disc 2 (live jam)
Side 3
'Cold Turkey' (John Lennon) – 8:35
'Don't Worry Kyoko' (Yoko Ono) – 16:01
Above two songs performed live at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, England on 15 December 1969, for a UNICEF charity concert
Side 4
'Well (Baby Please Don't Go)' ( Walter Ward ) – 4:41
'Jamrag' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:36
Unbeknownst to John and Yoko, who thought the song was a jam, it was actually a pre-written Frank Zappa song, 'King Kong,' which saw release on Zappa's 1969 album, 'Uncle Meat'.
'Scumbag' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Frank Zappa) – 4:08
'Aü' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 6:23
Above four songs recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York City with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention on 6 June 1971.
Remixed Version of Side 4
A remixed version of the live recordings of John & Yoko and Frank Zappa captured on Side Four of Sometime in New York City was released in 1992 on Frank Zappa's album, Playground Psychotics. On the album, the recordings have been remixed, making Zappa more prominent in the mix, and, in some cases, the songs were given new titles. The songs, which appear as tracks 22 through 26 on Disc One of the compact disc, are denoted as such:
'Well' (Walter Ward) - 4:43
'Say Please' (Lennon, Ono, Zappa) - 0:57
'Aawk' (Lennon, Ono, Zappa) - 2:59
'Scumbag' (Lennon, Ono, Howard Kaylan, Zappa) - 5:53
'A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono' (Lennon, Ono) - 6:07
Personnel
15 December 1969
John's handwritten credits on the, Live Jam inner sleeve.
John Lennon: guitar, vocal.
Yoko Ono: bag, vocal.
For everyone except himself and Yoko, John made up the pseudonyms used here.
Eric Clapton - 'Derek Claptoe': guitar.
Delaney & Bonnie - 'Bilanie & Donnie': guitar, percussion (and friends, brass, percussion)
Jim Gordon - 'Jim Bordom': drums.
George Harrison - 'George Harrisong': guitar.
Nicky Hopkins - 'Sticky Topkins': electric piano (overdubbed in N.Y. as organ was lost)
Bobby Keyes - 'Robbie Knees': sax.
Keith Moon - 'Kief Spoon': drums.
Billy Preston - 'Billy Presstud': organ.
Klaus Voormann - 'Raus Doorman': base (sic).
Alan White - 'Dallas White': drums.
Uncredited:
Jim Price: trumpet.
6 June 1971
John Lennon: guitar, vocals.
Yoko Ono: bag, vocals.
Aynsley Dunbar: drums.
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Bob Harris: keyboards, vocals.
Howard Kaylan: vocals.
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Jim Pons: bass guitar, vocals.
Don Preston: Mini-Moog.
Ian Underwood: keyboard, vocals, Woodwinds.
Mark Volman: vocals.
Klaus Voormann: bass guitar, vocals.
Frank Zappa: guitar, vocals.
2005 CD reissue
This remastered reissue on a single disk omits much of the live material with Zappa (though it is available in a different mix/edit on Zappa's 1993 album, Playground Psychotics) and includes two bonus tracks. Some of the track times, notably, 'We're All Water' and 'Don't Worry Kyoko,' differ from those on the original vinyl LPs.
'Woman Is The Nigger Of The World' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:15
'Sisters O Sisters' (Yoko Ono) – 3:46
'Attica State' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 2:52
'Born In A Prison' (Yoko Ono) – 4:04
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'New York City' (John Lennon) – 4:29'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 5:00
'The Luck Of The Irish' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 2:55
'John Sinclair' (John Lennon) – 3:26
'Angela' (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 4:06
'We're All Water' (Yoko Ono) – 5:18
'Cold Turkey [Live Jam]' (John Lennon) – 8:34
'Don't Worry Kyoko' (Yoko Ono) – 15:20
'Well (Baby Please Don't Go)' (Walter Ward) – 4:28
Bonus Tracks:
'Listen, The Snow Is Falling' (Yoko Ono) - 3:06
'Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) - 3:34