Nearly 100 Never-Before-Heard John Lennon & Yoko Ono Songs Just Revealed From Their Historic Time in NYC
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Jason BrowAugust 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Nearly 100 Never-Before-Heard John Lennon & Yoko Ono Songs Just Revealed From Their Historic Time in NYC originally appeared on Parade.
After the Beatles went their separate ways, John Lennonand Yoko Onoembraced non-violent activism in the name of peace. In the early part of the ‘70s, John and Yoko traded the British countryside for Greenwich Village, using New York City as the backdrop for their political messages, culminating in the One To One concerts at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
These years were a transformative time for both John and Yoko. NYC offered them a fresh start, with Lennon embracing an artistic break from his “Fab Four” past and Yoko continuing her ascent as an avant-garde artistic force. These years gave us the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, but a new collection dives deeper into John and Yoko’s creativity and perspective.
Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) is a 12-disc collection that includes 90 never-before-heard and previously unreleased tracks. The set consists of a new remixed version of 1972’s Sometime In New York City and that year’s One To One concerts—John’s only full-length concerts after leaving the Beatles, and the last concerts that John and Yoko ever played together.
The Super Deluxe Edition contains 9 CDs and 3 Blu-Ray audio discs, including remixed “Afternoon” and “Evening” performances of the One To One Concerts.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono at the One To One Concert, August 30, 1972.Photo by Michael Negrin © Yoko Ono Lennon
The Super Deluxe Edition will include a “Hybrid” disc, a best-of both shows; a remixed version of Sometime In New York City album; an “Evolution Documentary,” a “track-by-track audio montage by Sam Gannon that details the evolution of each song from demo to master recording via demos, rehearsals, outtakes, multitrack exploration, and studio conversations”; and four discs of never-before-released home recordings and jam sessions.
John and Yoko’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, produced the set along with a Grammy Award-winning audio team.
“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time,” said Sean in a press release.
John Lennon's New York City t-shirt on display in a new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of FamePhoto credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
“People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.”
Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition)
The set arrives on Oct. 10 via Capitol/UMe. In addition to the Super Deluxe Edition, the full One To One Concerts will be available in a 4LP/2CD format, or you can get the “Hybrid” concert on 2LP/1CD. Preorder here.
And yes, it includes the song that Frank Zappa accused John and Yoko of stealing.
Related: Controversial Rock Icon Once Accused a Beatle of Stealing His Song
Nearly 100 Never-Before-Heard John Lennon & Yoko Ono Songs Just Revealed From Their Historic Time in NYC first appeared on Parade on Aug 14, 2025
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