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John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and song writer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated song writing partnership.

Born and raised in Liverpool, as a teenager Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze; his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.

As of 2012, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as writer, co-writer, or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and, in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1994.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut studio album by English rock musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace in Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Ono's debut avant garde solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team, and featured nearly identical cover artwork. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums, documenting with honesty and artistic integrity his emotional and mental state at that point in his career. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it fourth on "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years." In 2012, the magazine ranked it number 23 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Following the Beatles' break-up in April 1970, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono undertook primal therapy with the guidance of Arthur Janov for four weeks at his London offices, before the three flew to Los Angeles to continue the therapy for four months. Janov's therapy technique emphasized emotionally reliving repressed childhood traumas rather than analytical discussion. In July 1970, Lennon started to record demos of songs he wrote that would show up on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and on one particular day, the 26th, Lennon recorded numerous demos of his song "God", which features the line "I don't believe in Beatles". Lennon's therapy was never completed due to the expiry of his US visa. With the experience he received from the therapy, he was able to channel his emotions into an album's worth of self-revelatory material.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was received with high critical praise upon release. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock." In early 1971, the album reached number eight on the UK and went to number six in the US, spending eighteen weeks in the Top 100. The album was particularly successful in the Netherlands, knocking George Harrison's blockbuster All Things Must Pass from the top of the chart and remaining at number one for seven consecutive weeks. Robert Christgau named it the best album of 1970 in his year-end list for The Village Voice, and in a decade-end list, he ranked it 21st best from the 1970s. In a retrospective review for Rolling Stone, he wrote that the lyrics are political, existential, and carefully thought, while Spector's production is elegantly simple so each instrument resonates, including Lennon's voice: "Left out in the open, without protective harmonies or racket, Lennon's singing takes on an expressive specificity that anyone in search of the century's great vocal performances would be foolish to overlook."

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums. In 2000, Q placed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band at number 62 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987, the album was ranked fourth on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the period 1967–87, and in 2003, it was placed at number 22 in the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2006, the album was placed by Pitchfork Media at number 60 of its Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2006, the album was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

Out of Print! Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 23/500!

The Ultradisc II Gold series, one of the most collectible in record history, presents John Lennon's first official album, Plastic Ono Band. Produced by John and Yoko with Phil Spector, this breathtakingly-honest and powerful album was first released in 1970 featuring such defining songs as "Mother", "Working Class Hero", "God" and "Love". It was mastered to perfection by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.

This edition is personally approved by Yoko Ono. Bonus tracks of "Power to the People" and "Do the Oz". These 24-Karat Gold Discs can be played on any standard CD player. Previous out-of-print Beatles and Lennon releases on MFSL now command hundreds of dollars in the collectors' market. This continues the numeric sequencing of the highly-collectible gold series.

"Also known as the "primal scream" album, referring to the painful therapy that gave rise to its songs, Plastic Ono Band was Lennon's first proper solo album and rock & roll's most self-revelatory recording. Lennon attacks and denies idols and icons, including his own former band ("I don't believe in Beatles," he sings in "God"), to hit a pure, raw core of confession that feels like reality, however agonizing, and, in its echo-drenched, garage-rock crudity, is years ahead of punk." - rollingstone

Features:
• 24 Kt Gold Collector's Edition

Named by Rolling Stone as the 22nd greatest album in history, John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band ranks among the legendary singer-songwriter’s finest efforts-with or without the Beatles. Fresh from experiencing primal scream therapy with partner Yoko Ono, Lennon turned his sights on making a proper solo debut. And few records are more emotional, traumatic, or impassioned than this 1970 landmark.

Lennon’s naked personal outpourings absolutely frighten as he unflinchingly explores issues that haunted him throughout his life: the abandonment of his parents on the cathartic “Mother”; the divide between classes on “Working Class Hero”; the enduring pain of “Isolation”; the religious faithlessness of “God," about which preeminent cultural critic Greil Marcus remarked “John’s singing in the last verse of ‘God’ may be the finest in all of rock.” No amount of hyperbole can overstate the richness, importance, and brilliance of Plastic Ono Band.

Joined by Beatles mate Ringo Starr on drums and Klaus Voorman on bass, with occasional assistance from producer Phil Spector and pianist Billy Preston, Lennon shuffles through the blues, strums folk melodies, surrenders to piano ballads, and lays into the teeth of ferocious rock and roll. Through it all, fear, anger, frustration, despair, and confusion are laid bare for all to see in a fierce manner that no record before—and very few since—ever witnessed. By following Lennon’s harrowing journey and candid thoughts, listeners enter a world that somehow proves comforting and affirming. Plastic Ono Band has as much to do with Lennon’s distinctive song writing and humanity as anything he’s ever done; it’s why he remains an irreplaceable icon and why his music continues to inspire.

Mobile Fidelity’s Limited-Edition 24k Gold CD of the 1970 classic is the very best digital pressing you will ever hear. Every haunting note, studio echo, and poignant confessional is presented with amazing detail and stunning dynamics. Do not settle for less. A masterpiece like Plastic Ono Band deserves unsurpassed fidelity, and MoFi delivers. But do not wait on this.

MFSL, also known as MOFI, properly known as MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB was the grandfather of all audiophile labels. Their LPs and CDs were highly sought after by audiophiles, because, quite simply, they were the best available at the time (most still are).

Unfortunately the original MFSL company no longer exists. Thankfully, others have taken up the audiophile gauntlet, using the MFSL name to issue high quality, great sounding CD product...this is one such title...FACTORY SEALED no less!!

This listing is for a very rare audiophile 24kt GOLD CD title! It is OUT OF PRINT - a FACTORY SEALED 24kt GOLD CD, PRESSED and ISSUED by the MFSL {MOFI} company, of a highly collectible title from their music catalog, featuring -

John Lennon

Gold CD Title -

Plastic Ono Band

Featuring -

    John Lennon – vocals, guitars, keyboards
    Ringo Starr – drums
    Klaus Voormann – bass

    Additional Personnel -
    Phil Spector – piano on "Love"
    Billy Preston – piano on "God"
    Yoko Ono – "wind"
    Mal Evans – "tea and sympathy"
Track Listing -

1. Mother
2. Hold On
3. I Found Out
4. Working Class Hero
5. Isolation
6. Remember
7. Love
8. Well Well Well
9. Look at Me
10. God
11. My Mummy's Dead
12. Power to the People - (bonus track)
13. Do the Oz - (bonus track)

The 24kt GOLD CD is from the rare MFSL series of audiophile GOLD CDs (out of print).

  • Gold CD catalog # UDCD 760
  • Utradisc II - Gain 2 System
  • Original Recording - on EMI Records, released in 1970 - re-released by MFSL in 2000
  • Gold CD made in the USA

The 24kt Gold CD, JEWEL CASE and INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this item is actually FACTORY SEALED!

This Gold CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!