Yoko Ono discography [1970-2018]

 

Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese artist and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking and for her 1969–1980 marriage to John Lennon. There have been retrospectives of her work in New York City in 1989 and 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, and in Frankfurt, Krems, Austria, and Bilbao, Spain in 2013. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.

She maintains John Lennon's legacy, among other things funding and maintaining Strawberry Fields in New York City, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan. She has also made significant philanthropic contributions to arts, peace, Philippine disaster relief, and AIDS and autism outreach programs. Mother to Kyoko Chan Cox and Sean Lennon, she also brought feminism to the forefront in her music. Her collaborative albums with Lennon Live Peace in Toronto 1969 and from 1972 Some Time in New York City reached No. 10 and No. 48 on the album charts respectively. (Double Fantasy from 1980, released three weeks before Lennon's death, reached No. 1.) Since 2003, eleven of her songs, mostly remixes of her older work, have hit No. 1 on the US dance chart.

1970- Yoko Ono-Plastic Ono Band

1971- Fly

1973- Approximately Infinite Universe

1973- Feeling The Space

1982- It's Alright (I See Rainbows)

1982- Season of Glass

1985- Starpeace

1992- Walking On Thin Ice

1995- Rising

1996- Rising Mixes

1997- A Story

2001- Blueprints For A Sunrise

2007- Open Your Box

2007- Yes, I'm A Witch

2009- Between My Head And The Sky

2013- Take Me to the Land of Hell

2016- Yes, I'm A Witch Too

2018- Warzone

Santana - The Birth Of Santana - The Complete Early Years (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 For more than five decades, the band Santana, led by guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana, have fused rock, blues, and Latin styles into a percussive, colorful and unique collage of sound. Inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, Santana has released a total of 36 albums, collectively selling more than 50 million copies. And it all started right here...

The Birth Of Santana is an essential compilation and a true artifact of rock music, documenting the rise of one of its most beloved artists. The first two discs features recordings from 1969 sessions at Pacific Recording Studios in San Mateo, CA and are believed to be the original demo tapes that landed Santana their deal with Columbia Records. An early incarnation of Jingo, the Top 40 single from Santana s self-titled debut album appears here, as does the impressive Soul Sacrifice. The third disc is the legendary live recording at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. While the exact date of these recordings is unknown, this live performance also predates the group s self-titled debut album on Columbia. Carlos and the boys are indeed in fine form. Highlights include an outstanding rendition of Evil Ways, a song that went on o be a standard in the annals of rock history. Young, raw and on the brink of superstardom, this is Santana like you ve never heard them before!

 

Groundhogs ‎–United Artists Years (1972-1976) [3 CD, 2013/FLAC]

British blues band that backed John Lee Hooker in the mid-'60s, and went on to explor acid rock and prog during the '70s.

The United Artist Years 1972-1976 is the follow up to Thank Christ For The Groundhogs. That 3cd featured the first five albums while this set features three more studio albums, Hogwash, Black Diamond, Crosscut Saw and bonus live BBC concerts material. Switching labels from Liberty to United Artists, the band recorded Hogwash with drummer Clive Brooks, formerly of progressive/jazz-rockers Egg. The album surprisingly was a chart failure, but the next album with Brooks, Solid managed to reach #31. Because it was recorded for the short-lived WWA label it is not included here. This line-up also performs on both BBC concerts. Briefly disbanding in 1975, the next year found McPhee reforming the band with a new line-up. It’s surprising that Hogwash didn’t make more of an impact. McPhee continues experimenting with the changing prog-rock-like time signatures and sparing use of mellotron and keyboards.

 

UFO - The Chrysalis Years: 1973–1979 [5 CD, 2011]

  

The Chrysalis Years: 1973–1979 is a compilation album by the band UFO which includes 81 tracks, some not previously released. The compilation includes, in their entirety, the albums recorded for the Chrysalis label during said years, including (in order of appearance): Phenomenon (1974), Force It (1975), No Heavy Petting (1976), Lights Out (1977), Obsession (1978), and Strangers in the Night (1979). In addition to these albums, the compilation also includes a previously unreleased live set recorded at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom[2] in Atlanta, GA, several singles and B-sides which have not to date been released in CD format, and tracks recorded with engineers Bob Harris and John Peel but not included on the original album releases. Arguably, this period during the 1970s, is the zenith of the band's creativity, and The Chrysalis Years: 1973–1979 is an attractive collection likely to contain all the recordings by the band one might desire excepting for the most devout UFO fans.

• Phil Mogg – vocals
• Michael Schenker – lead guitar
• Pete Way – bass
• Andy Parker – drums
• Paul Raymond – rhythm guitar, keyboards (disc 3, tracks 14–17; disc 4 & disc 5)
• Danny Peyronel—keyboards and vocals (disc 3, tracks 5–13)

 

Neil Young - Transmission Impossible (4 CD, 2019)

 

This Four disc collector's box set features rare broadcast recordings by Neil Young, originally transmitted from live shows the great man performed in the 1970s and 1980s + a Bonus fourth from 2012; Â Disc One includes two such superb performances : the first a short set Neil played alongside Bob Dylan and members of The Band at the San Francisco SNACK Benefit concert in 1975, and secondly his legendary acoustic set from the late show he gave at Boston's Music Hall in November 1976. Disc Two features Young's marvellous appearance on the Austin City Limits programme in 1984. Including recent cuts mixed with NY classics, this is perhaps Neil's finest performances of that period. Disc Three houses another '80s gig, played at the end of the decade in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th December 1989, shortly after the release of his dynamic Freedom album.

Deluxe Disc 4 Neil Returns to Austin TX in 2012 and Just Proves once again that he has not lost a step or a note over the years and Crazy Horse with him as usual are his greatest co conspirators.