A new box set, Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition), celebrating the political activism of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is set to be released on October 10th.
Their son, Sean Ono Lennon, has taken on production duties for the 123-track collection, which boasts 90 never-before-heard and previously unreleased tracks.
It captures the time in their career from 1969, when they had their famous bed-ins, to 1972, when the pair performed the One to One concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which was Lennon’s only full-length concert after leaving The Beatles.
The super deluxe edition of Power to the People features nine CDs and three Blu-rays, and it is accompanied by a 204-page book edited and designed by Simon Hilton.
Sean Ono Lennon said in a statement of the new project: “I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time.”
The Grammy-winner continued: “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.”
Ono Lennon poignantly recalled: “When I was eleven, my mum put out the Live in New York City album and film. So I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert.”
Following the announcement, Capitol Records have shared an unreleased live version of ‘Come Together‘ from One to One in New York.