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Plastic Ono Band

Great Britain · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1968–1975Date range
1Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1968

John Winston Lennon1968

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon begins his personal and artistic relationship with Yoko Ono by collaborating on the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

1969

John Winston LennonJuly 1969

Quebec · Arts / Popular Music

The single release of "Give Peace a Chance" recorded in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec with many participants, is the first release to bear the credit the Plastic Ono Band

John Winston LennonDecember 1969

Toronto · Arts / Popular Music

The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace in Toronto is released

John Winston Lennon1969

Arts / Popular Music

Its credo, "YOU are the Plastic Ono Band", implied that everyone was part of the group. A second volume, Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions appears in the spring of 1969. A conceptual supergroup formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 before the dissolution of The Beatles

John Winston Lennon1969

Toronto · Arts / Popular Music

The only album solely credited to the Plastic Ono Band, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival

1970

John Winston Lennon1970

Arts / Popular Music

Release of, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band". Following the Beatles split in 1970, Lennon releases the Plastic Ono Band album, a raw, honest record, heavily influenced by Arthur Janovs Primal therapy, which Lennon had undergone previously

1974

John Winston Lennon1974

Arts / Popular Music

Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges", a duet with Elton John on the #1 hit "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", the album is released under the name "the Plastic Ono Band"

1975

John Winston Lennon1975

Arts / Popular Music

The last use of the Plastic Ono Band credit appears on Lennons 1975 retrospective release "Shaved Fish"

Names involved

John Winston Lennon

Provenance

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