Lennon (box set)

Lennon
Box set by John Lennon
Released	30 October 1990
Recorded	June 1969 - Autumn 1980
Genre	Rock
Length	4:43:12
Label	Parlophone/EMI
Producer	John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Jack Douglas, Gus Dudgeon
John Lennon chronology
Imagine: John Lennon (1988) Lennon (1990) Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (1997)

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
MusicHound	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Lennon is a four-CD box set featuring many of John Lennon's solo songs and was released in 1990. Not to be confused with 2015 box set of the same name, which includes Lennon's 8 original studio albums on vinyl.

Compiled by the foremost authority on the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, Lennon encompasses Lennon's entire 1970 album Plastic Ono Band and generous samples from his single-only releases, and his albums from Live Peace in Toronto 1969 to Menlove Ave.

Lennon, which never charted in the United Kingdom or United States, was deleted from Lennon's catalogue in the late 1990s.

Track listing

• All songs composed by John Lennon, except where noted.

Disc one

1. "Give Peace a Chance" – 4:53
   • Originally credited to Lennon–McCartney, the credit was revised in the 1990s to cite only John Lennon as its composer
2. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins) – 2:38
3. "Money" (Bradford-Berry Gordy) – 3:25
4. "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams) – 3:23
5. "Yer Blues" (Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 3:42
6. "Cold Turkey" – 5:02
7. "Instant Karma!" – 3:23
8. "Mother"– 5:35
9. "Hold On"– 1:53
10. "I Found Out" – 3:37
11. "Working Class Hero" – 3:50
12. "Isolation" – 2:53
13. "Remember"– 4:36
14. "Love" – 3:24
15. "Well Well Well" – 5:59
16. "Look at Me" – 2:54
17. "God" – 4:10
18. "My Mummy's Dead" – 0:53
19. "Power to the People" – 3:18
20. "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)" (Ward) – 3:56

Disc two

1. "Imagine" – 3:04
2. "Crippled Inside" – 3:49
3. "Jealous Guy" – 4:15
4. "It's So Hard" – 2:26
5. "Gimme Some Truth" – 3:16
6. "Oh My Love" (Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 2:45
7. "How Do You Sleep?" – 5:36
8. "How?" – 3:42
9. "Oh Yoko!" – 4:19
10. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (Lennon/Ono) – 3:34
11. "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" (Lennon/Ono) – 5:15
12. "New York City" – 4:29
13. "John Sinclair" – 3:28
14. "Come Together" (Lennon–McCartney) – 4:25
15. "Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) – 3:02
16. "Mind Games" – 4:12
17. "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" – 4:44
18. "One Day (At a Time)" – 3:07
19. "Intuition" – 3:09
20. "Out the Blue" – 3:21

Disc three

1. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" – 3:25
2. "Going Down on Love" – 3:54
3. "Old Dirt Road" (Lennon/Harry Nilsson) – 4:09
4. "Bless You" – 4:37
5. "Scared" – 4:39
6. "#9 Dream" – 4:48
7. "Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" – 2:55
8. "Steel and Glass" – 4:37
9. "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" – 5:10
10. "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King/Leiber/Stoller) – 3:28
11. "Ain't That a Shame" (Fats Domino/Bartholomew) – 2:30
12. "Do You Wanna Dance" (Bobby Freeman) – 2:52
13. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) – 3:00
14. "Slippin' and Slidin'" (Penniman/Bocage/Collins/Smith) – 2:16
15. "Angel Baby" (Hamlin) – 3:39
16. "Just Because" (Lloyd Price) – 4:25
17. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night (Live)" – 4:19
18. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Lennon–McCartney) – 5:58
19. "I Saw Her Standing There" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:28
    • Tracks 17-19 recorded live at Elton John's Madison Square Garden show on 28 November 1974

Disc four

1. "(Just Like) Starting Over" – 3:56
2. "Cleanup Time" – 2:57
3. "I'm Losing You" – 3:56
4. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" – 4:01
5. "Watching the Wheels" – 3:31
6. "Woman" – 3:32
7. "Dear Yoko" – 2:33
8. "I'm Stepping Out" – 4:06
9. "I Don't Wanna Face It" – 3:21
10. "Nobody Told Me" – 3:33
11. "Borrowed Time" – 4:28
12. "(Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess" – 2:27
13. "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" (Ono) – 3:31
    • Originally released on Double Fantasy with Ono on lead, this version features Lennon and was first released in 1984
14. "Grow Old with Me" – 3:07

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1990) Position Australian ARIA Album Chart[4] 39 Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[5] 53

Certifications Region Certification Japan (RIAJ)[6] Platinum

References

1. Lennon at AllMusic
2. Gary Graff & Daniel Durcholz (eds), MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press (Farmington Hills, MI, 1999; ISBN 1-57859-061-2), p. 667.
3. "John Lennon: Album Guide | Rolling Stone Music". Rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
4. "australian-charts.com John Lennon - Lennon" (ASP). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
5. "レノン／ジョン・レノン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック" [Highest position and charting weeks of Lennon by John Lennon]. oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon Style. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
6. "Japanese album certifications – ジョン・レノン – LENNON" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved 10 October 2012. Select 1991年12月 on the drop-down menu