John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection, 8 CD, 2021) [FLAC + 24/192]

 

“Plastic Ono Band,” released in December 1970, was John Lennon’s first solo album after the breakup of the Beatles earlier that year. It was a far cry from the tuneful reassurance of Paul McCartney’s one-man-studio-band album “McCartney” and the polished abundance of George Harrison’s triple album, “All Things Must Pass,” both of which were also released that year. In both music and lyrics, “Plastic Ono Band” was a stark statement of pain, separation, vulnerability and self-reclamation after the whirlwind that had been Lennon’s life as a Beatle. Half a century later, the album retains its power.

Now it has been remixed, massively expanded, anatomized and annotated as “Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection”. The compilation was produced by Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow and a producer (with Lennon and Phil Spector) of the original album, and Simon Hilton; there are other configurations for less obsessive fans.

John Lennon ‎– The Househusband Years - The Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980 [12 CD, 2015]

 

This is a collection of John Lennon home recordings at the Dakota home in New York, Cannon Hill in Cold Spring Harbor (NY) and Villa Undercliff, Fairylands, Bermuda during the last six years of his life. All tracks have been remastered and speed corrected from the best available sources. Some are previously unbooted.

John Lennon - Imagine: The Ultimate Collection (4 CD, 2018) [FLAC + 24/96]

 

Universal Music celebrates the apex of John Lennon’s solo career with a six-disc box set  Imagine: The Ultimate Collection. This historical, remixed and remastered 140-track collection is fully authorised by Yoko Ono Lennon who oversaw the production and creative direction.

Spread across four CDs and two Blu-ray discs, this truly unique expanded edition offers a variety of listening experiences that are at once immersive and intimate, ranging from the brand new Ultimate Mixes of the iconic album, which reveal whole new levels of sonic depth, definition and clarity to these timeless songs, to the Raw Studio Mixes that allow listeners to hear Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band’s original, unadorned performances, to enveloping 5.1 surround sound mixes and a Quadrasonic Album Mix, presenting the original four speaker mix remastered in Quadrasonic sound for the first time in nearly fifty years. This ultimate deep listening experience, which features scores of previously unheard demos, rare outtakes and isolated track elements, also includes The Evolution Documentary, a unique track-by-track audio montage that details the journey of each song from demo to master recording via instructions, rehearsals, recordings, multitrack exploration and studio chatter. The comprehensive nature of the full Imagine – The Ultimate Collection is the absolute best representation of a career artist working at the top of his creative game. imagine – the ultimate deep listening experience.

John Lennon - The John Lennon Signature Box (11 CD, 2015) [24-96 + 320]

 

The John Lennon Signature Box is an 11-disc boxed set of remastered John Lennon albums and new collections, released on CD and digital format, as part of the "Gimme Some Truth" collection. The albums released in the boxed set are digital remasters of the original recordings and mixes, done by John's widow Yoko Ono and the same team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios who worked on the 2009 remasters by The Beatles, in London and Avatar Studios, New York. The set also includes home demos and non-album singles.

VA - The Beatles, Wings, Badfinger, Elephant's Memory ... - Apple Singles Collection (1968-1991) (16 CD, 2021)

 

Apple Records is a record label founded by the Beatles in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston. In practice, the roster had become dominated by the mid-1970s with releases of the former Beatles as solo artists. Allen Klein managed the label from 1969 to 1973, then it was managed by Neil Aspinall on behalf of the Beatles and their heirs. Aspinall retired in 2007 and was replaced by Jeff Jones. 

John Lennon - Anthology (4 CD, 1998/FLAC)

John Lennon Anthology is a four-CD box set of home demos, studio outtakes and other previously unreleased material recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career from "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969 up until the 1980 sessions for Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey.

The anthology was divided by its compiler and co-producer, Yoko Ono, into four discs representing four eras in Lennon's solo career: "Ascot", "New York City", "The Lost Weekend" and "Dakota".

 

 

The Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus 1968 (DVDRIP + FLAC-HD [2019]

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a film released in 1996 of a December 11, 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The event comprised two concerts on a circus stage, and included acts such as Eric Clapton, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards. It was originally meant to be aired on the BBC, but the Rolling Stones withheld its airing and release.

This concert is the only footage of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi performing as a member of Jethro Tull; he was a member for only several weeks.

Originally filmed in December 1968, "The Rock and Roll Circus" was originally intended to be released as a television special. The special was filmed over two nights and featured not only the Rolling Stones but The Who, Jethro Tull (with future Black Sabbath guitarist Tommy Iommi filling in for the recently departed Mick Abrahams), Marianne Faithful and an all-star jam featuring John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Micthell. Sadly, this also marked the final appearance of the Stones founder and original guiding light, Brian Jones, who would be dead within six months after filming the special. 

 

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth (4 CD, 2010/FLAC)

Gimme Some Truth is a box set by English musician John Lennon, released in 2010 by EMI. It contains four themed discs of remastered songs. The box set was released along with John Lennon Signature Box box set and Power to the People: The Hits compilation in conjunction with what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday. 

John Lennon - Between The Lines - Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980 (9 CD, 2008)

 

Probably one of the best examples of a fan-collected set is John Lennon: Between the Lines: Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980. The collection brings together all of Lennon's available demos from the period, using all relevant books, bootlegs, official releases, and even 'Lost Lennon Tapes' tape logs to uncover not only what was recorded, but in what order. It is a painstaking effort, and all of the recordings have been transcribed. The set reveals that Lennon did not stop writing in 1975, but rather worked slowly, tossed aside many compositions, and worked on several others that eventually formed the basis for Double Fantasy and the posthumous Milk and Honey.

This set includes all surfaced Lennon home recordings from the 1975-80 period. All of the audio has been carefully remastered and speed corrected from the best available sources, and the tracks have been presented in the order of recording (as far as could be ascertained) -- something which hasn't been attempted previously. For several of the demos, the actual taping order and context of the various versions is revealed for the first time.

John Lennon- seven "Alternate" albums (2005)

 

Unofficial releases by Pear Records





John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Imagine
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Walls And Bridges
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Double Fantasy
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Mind Games
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Rock And Roll
John Lennon-(2005)-The Alternate Shaved Fish

The Beatles – Artifacts III - Solo Years : The Definitive Collection Of Beatles Rarities 1969-1994 [4 CD, 1995] [FLAC]

 

A 4-CD set of Alternate tracks spanning The Beatles careers. It includes a recording of the session from 1974 featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Harry Nilsson.

John Lennon - The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes [22 CD, 1996]

 

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes is a 22-CD bootleg box set, released by Walrus Records in December 1996. The main goal of this set was to condense everything from the existing Lost Lennon Tapes bootleg series, which had only been released on vinyl, onto CDs.

Everything on this collection had been aired on the radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes, which was broadcast in 1988. The original vinyl version of this material was also released in 1988 by Bag Records. The newer release took each of the original albums and spread them between 22 discs, with two to three of the original records on each two-disc set.