Another John Lennon box set is on the way.
Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) contains 123 tracks, 90 of which have never been released, spread over 12 discs. Produced by his son Sean, it chronicles John and Yoko’s political era. It will be released on October 10th, the day after what would have been Lennon’s 85th birthday,
The set spans from the Plastic Ono Band’s 1969 Bed-In anti-war anthem “Give Peace A Chance,” to a new version of their 1972 album, Sometime In New York City, and that year’s One To One Concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York, Lennon’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles and also the last concerts John & Yoko ever performed together.
In 1972, Lennon told NME, “That Madison Square Garden gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since The Cavern or even Hamburg. It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles used to really get into it.”
Commenting on putting this collection together, Sean says, “I was completely floored … getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time. 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. When I was 11, my mom put out the Live in New York City album and film. So I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert. For the concerts, [we] spent a lot of time finding the best possible balance to keep the feeling of a live show while refining the overall sound as much as possible… I won’t disclose all our techniques, but there was some ‘movie magic’ required, and I think in the end, the shows sound better than ever.”
The One To One Concert will also be available outside of the box set in a variety of configurations including a four-LP Deluxe Collector’s Edition, a two-CD Deluxe Edition and more.
With today’s announcement comes a video for the previously unreleased and newly remixed performance of The Beatles’ “Come Together” from the One To One Concert evening show, the second of the two performances that day.
