John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band to be given Deluxe Edition release
Some people say “Imagine” is the best thing John Lennon did as a solo artist. Some people are wrong.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was his first proper solo album (the three experimental albums he recorded with Yoko tend to not count) and it’s nothing less than one of the greatest artists laying his soul bare. In the months between the breakup and the album’s recording, Lennon and Yoko Ono went to therapy with the famous Arthur Janov, at first spending four weeks in London undergoing “Primal Therapy.” And, for those of you who don’t know, Primal Therapy is a bit like this:
You may think that this was just a little joke, but Tears for Fears’ work (particularly their first two albums) was actually built around Roland Orbazal and Curt Smith’s fascination with Janov’s writings. But, for the record, here are some records of what these sessions were like for John Lennon. After four weeks in London, they spent four months in a rented home in Bel Air for a more intensive therapy, but, around this time, inspired by his experiences, he started to write some songs, and even recorded a few demos of “God” on July 26. He didn’t finish the therapy, since (in a foreshadowing of Lennon’s next five years), his visa expired before he could truly finish it (at least by Janov’s standards.) But he had a lot of material to work with for an album.
Source: About Derek/anglotopia.net
