Some Time in New York City by John Lennon

Some Time in New York City, released on Apple in June 1972 in the US and that September in Britain, is John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their most headline-hungry: a double album credited to the Plastic Ono Band, with the American rock group Elephant's Memory backing them. Lennon had moved to New York in 1971, and the studio sides, cut between December 1971 and March 1972 with Phil Spector co-producing alongside the couple, read like a stack of front pages set to rock and roll, blunt agitprop about sexism, prisons, colonialism and racism.

The live half, Live Jam, draws on a 1969 UNICEF benefit at London's Lyceum Ballroom with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Keith Moon, Nicky Hopkins and Klaus Voormann, and a June 1971 night at the Fillmore East with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Zappa didn't like how his tapes were handled and later put out his own version on Playground Psychotics. Critics savaged the politics, and the record sold poorly.

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