John Lennon John Lennon was the Beatles' most committed rock & roller, their social conscience, and their slyest verbal wit. After the group's breakup, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, carried on intertwined solo careers. Ono's early albums presaged the elastic, screechy vocal style of late-'70s new wavers like the B-52's and Lene Lovich. L7 and Babes in Toyland have also been influenced by and benefited from Ono's attitudinal, emotionally trailblazing work. Lennon strove to break taboos and to be ruthlessly, publicly honest. When he was murdered on December 8, 1980, he and Ono seemed on the verge of a new, more optimistic phase.
Most
of the solo Lennon albums are £9.99 to download with some obvious
cut-price tactics for ‘tier two’ LPs like Live in New York City, Live in
Toronto and Acoustic (all of which come in at £7.99). But making the
entire 1998 Anthology box set available to download for just £9.99 has
to be the bargain of the century. It has 94 tracks in total, although
admittedly many of them are short spoken word extracts, either from
interviews or the studio. Either way, you’d be mad to spend £7.99 to
download the 21-track Wonsuponatime sampler when you could get another
sixty tracks from the Lennon archives for just two pounds more. One
again the iTunes marketing team have let themselves down though – look
carefully at the Anthology sleeve shot and what do you see? A sticker
proclaiming “Property of EMI Music A&R Department”!
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