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Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the debut studio album by Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono, released on Apple Records in December 1970. It was released simultaneously with her husband's album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Backed by the Plastic Ono Band and, on one track, the Ornette Coleman Quartet, it followed the release of three experimental albums with Lennon and a live album from the 1969 version of the Plastic Ono Band. In the United States, it peaked at number 182 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
Studio album by Yoko Ono with Plastic Ono Band
Released	11 December 1970 (1970-12-11)
Recorded	10 October – 6 November 1970 "AOS" February 1968
Studio	Abbey Road and Royal Albert Hall, London
Genre	Avant-garde experimental rock musique concrète proto-punk[1]
Length	40:29
Label	Apple
Producer	Yoko Ono, John Lennon
Yoko Ono chronology
Live Peace in Toronto 1969 (with The Plastic Ono Band) (1969) Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (1970) Fly (1971)

Recording

With the exception of "AOS", a 1968 recording, Ono's album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios during the same September–October 1970 sessions that produced the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album.[2][3] Also recorded at this time was "Between the Takes", which was released on the 1998 CD reissue of Ono's Fly album.[2] "Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" was based on a sample from a tape of George Harrison playing sitar and a Ringo Starr drum break with an added echo effect[4] plus Ono's vocals with a lyric referencing a miscarriage.[5] Ono's vocalisations on tracks such as "Why" and "Why Not" mixed hetai, a Japanese vocal technique from kabuki theatre, with modern rock 'n roll and raw aggression influenced by the then-popular primal therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undertaking. According to Ono, the recording engineers were in the habit of turning off the recording equipment when she began to perform – which is why, at the end of "Why", Lennon can be heard asking "Were you gettin' that?"[4]

On 29 February 1968, Ono appeared onstage at London's Royal Albert Hall with Ornette Coleman and his jazz group. The performance and their afternoon rehearsal were both recorded; "AOS" was recorded during this rehearsal and included on the album, the only track not featuring the Plastic Ono Band as it existed for the December Ono and Lennon albums. Describing how she met Coleman, Ono has stated:

Ornette was already very, very established and famous and respected guy as a musician. And I met him in Paris. The way I met was, I was doing a show and after the show, somebody said, Oh, Ornette Coleman is here and he would like to – okay. Well, hello. Thank you for coming. That kind of thing. And he was saying, Well, okay. So he said that he was going to go and do a concert in Albert Hall and would I come and do it with him because he thought it was kind of interesting what I do.[6]

Release and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Rolling Stone	Positive[8]
Pitchfork	9.1/10[9]

Initially on Apple Records, through EMI, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was released to considerable critical disdain in 1970, at a time when Ono was being widely blamed for disbanding The Beatles. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band only hit the lower reaches of the album chart in the United States, failing to chart in the United Kingdom altogether.[3] Notable exceptions were the estimations of Billboard who called it 'visionary' and critic Lester Bangs who supported it in Rolling Stone. More recently, the album has been credited with having an influence on musicians grossly disproportionate to its sales and visibility, akin to that of The Velvet Underground.[10][11] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly has credited the album with "launching a hundred or more female alternative rockers, like Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson of the B-52s to current thrashers like L7 and Courtney Love of Hole".

The covers of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band albums are nearly identical. Lennon pointed out the difference in their 1980 Playboy interview: "in Yoko's, she's leaning back on me; in mine, I'm leaning on her". The photos were taken with a cheap Instamatic camera on the grounds of Tittenhurst Park (their home at the time) by actor Daniel Richter, who is best known for playing Moon-Watcher, the head apeman in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. At the time, Richter lived with Lennon and Ono and worked as their assistant.

The album was reissued on compact disc by Rykodisc in 1997 with three bonus tracks from the era.[12] An "LP replica" special edition was issued by V2 Records in Japan in 2007,[13] and it was reissued again on LP, compact disc, and digital download by Secretly Canadian on November 11, 2016, with bonus tracks and rare photos.

The title and lyrics to "Greenfield Morning" derive from Ono's 1964 book Grapefruit. An edited version of "Open Your Box" appeared as the B-side to the UK issue of Lennon's single "Power to the People".

Track listing

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

Original release

Side one

1. "Why" – 5:37
2. "Why Not" – 9:55
3. "Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" – 5:38

Side two

1. "AOS" – 7:06
2. "Touch Me" – 4:37
3. "Paper Shoes" – 7:26

1997 reissue

Tracks 1–6 per the 1970 release, with the following bonus tracks:

7. "Open Your Box" (alternate version) – 7:35
8. "Something More Abstract" – 0:44
9. "The South Wind" – 16:38

2016 reissue

Tracks 1–6 per the 1970 release, with the following bonus tracks:

7. "Open Your Box" (alternate version) – 7:35
8. "Something More Abstract" – 0:44
9. "Why" (extended version) – 8:41
10. "The South Wind" – 16:38

Personnel

• Yoko Ono – vocals
• John Lennon – guitars
• Klaus Voormann – bass guitar
• Ringo Starr – drums
• George Harrison – sitar on "Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City"[14]
• Ornette Coleman – trumpet on "AOS"
• Charlie Haden – double bass on "AOS"
• David Izenzon – double bass on "AOS"
• Ed Blackwell – drums on "AOS"

Technical personnel[3]

• Phil McDonald – engineering
• John Leckie – engineering
• Andy Stevens – engineering
• "Eddie" – engineering

Charts

Chart performance of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Chart (1970)	Peak position	Total weeks
US Billboard 200[15]	182	3

Release history

Release history of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Country	Date	Format	Label	Catalog
United States	11 December 1970[16]	LP	Apple	SW 3373[17]
		Cassette		4XW 3373[18]
		8-Track		8XW 3373[19]
United Kingdom		LP		SAPCOR 17[17]
Japan (Promo)	1970	LP (Red)[20]		AP-80175[21]
Japan	13 January 1971	LP
United States	20 May 1997[22]	CD	Rykodisc	RCD 10414[12]
United Kingdom	1997
Japan				VACK-5370[23]
	24 January 2007		Rykodisc, Apple	VACK-1308[13]
United States & Europe	11 November 2016	LP	Secretly Canadian, Chimera Music	SC281/CHIM20[24]
		LP (Clear)[25]
		CD[26]
Japan	7 December 2016	CD	Sony Records International	SICX-73[27]
	22 February 2017	LP (Clear)		SIJP-33[28]

References

External links

• Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Yoko Ono /Plastic Ono Band ist das erste Solo-Studioalbum von Yoko Ono. Gleichzeitig ist es einschließlich der drei Avantgarde-Alben mit ihrem Ehemann John Lennon und des Livealbums der Plastic Ono Band das insgesamt fünfte Album Yoko Onos. Es wurde am 11. Dezember 1970 in Großbritannien und in den USA veröffentlicht.

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[es] Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (estilizado como YOKO ONO/PLASTIC ONO BAND) es el álbum debut vanguardista de Yoko Ono, el cual fue producido después de la grabación de tres grabaciones experimentales con John Lennon y un álbum en directo como parte de Plastic Ono Band. Con excepción de una sola canción (grabada con Ornette Coleman), el álbum entero surgió a través de una sesión de improvisación en la cual Ono desarrolla y lleva a los extremos su característico estilo vocal derivado del hetai japonés, una técnica utilizada en el teatro kabuki.

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