John Lennon: 'Gimme Some Truth'

(courtesy of Robert Benson Collecting Vinyl Records )
FULL TRACKLISTS AND COVER ART UNVEILED FOR EIGHT ALBUMS REMASTERED FROM LENNON'S ORIGINAL MIXES AND SEVERAL NEW COLLECTIONS TO BE RELEASED ON 4TH OCTOBER


Sweeping Catalogue Initiative Overseen by Yoko Ono and EMI Music Commemorates Lennon's 70th Birthday

LONDON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- EMI Music unveils today the complete tracklists and cover art for a broad selection of remastered John Lennon albums and new collections to be released on CD and digitally on 4 October (5 October in North America). Announced last month, EMI Music's global John Lennon 'Gimme Some Truth' catalogue campaign is being overseen by Yoko Ono and commemorates the music legend's 70th birthday on 9 October, 2010. Featured in the sweeping initiative are eight remastered John Lennon solo albums and new titles including Double Fantasy Stripped Down, Power To The People: The Hits, Gimme Some Truth, and the John Lennon Signature Box.


For the first time, Lennon's classic solo albums and other standout recordings have been digitally remastered from his original mixes. Double Fantasy, 1980's GRAMMY Award winner for Album of the Year, will be presented with a newly remixed 'Stripped Down' version produced by Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas, Lennon's original co-producers for the album. Some Time In New York City has been restored to include the six 'Live Jam' recordings featured on the original album.

The deluxe 11CD and digital John Lennon Signature Box includes 13 previously unreleased home recordings, and Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Julian Lennon have each written personal essays for the lavish collection.

The cover art for the new titles includes original drawings by Sean Lennon for Double Fantasy Stripped Down, while the cover of 1974's Walls and Bridges is restored to its original artwork.

John Lennon's life and music will be specially feted this fall with a variety of commemorative releases and events around the world. Please visit www.johnlennon.com for official announcements and updates.

Click Here to view all of the John Lennon cover art images.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THE HITS [CD; Digital]


1. Power To The People
2. Gimme Some Truth
3. Woman
4. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
5. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
6. Cold Turkey
7. Jealous Guy
8. #9 Dream
9. (Just Like) Starting Over
10. Mind Games
11. Watching The Wheels
12. Stand By Me
13. Imagine
14. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
15. Give Peace A Chance

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THE HITS (EXPERIENCE EDITION) [CD/DVD]

CD (tracklist same as above)

DVD

1. Power To The People
2. Gimme Some Truth
3. Woman
4. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
5. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
6. Cold Turkey
7. Jealous Guy
8. #9 Dream
9. (Just Like) Starting Over
10. Mind Games
11. Watching The Wheels
12. Stand By Me
13. Imagine
14. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
15. Give Peace A Chance

GIMME SOME TRUTH [4CD; Digital]

Working Class Hero

1. Working Class Hero
2. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
3. Power To The People
4. God
5. I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die
6. Gimme Some Truth
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Steel And Glass
9. Meat City
10. I Don't Wanna Face It
11. Remember
12. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
13. I Found out
14. Isolation
15. Imagine
16. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
17. Give Peace A Chance
18. Only People

Woman

1. Mother
2. Hold On
3. You Are Here
4. Well Well Well
5. Oh My Love
6. Oh Yoko!
7. Grow Old With Me
8. Love
9. Jealous Guy
10. Woman
11. Out The Blue
12. Bless You
13. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)
14. My Mummy's Dead
15. I'm Losing You
16. (Just Like) Starting Over
17. #9 Dream
18. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

Borrowed Time

1. Mind Games
2. Nobody Told Me
3. Cleanup Time
4. Crippled Inside
5. How Do You Sleep?
6. How?
7. Intuition
8. I'm Stepping Out
9. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
10. Old Dirt Road
11. Scared
12. What You Got
13. Cold Turkey
14. New York City
15. Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
16. Borrowed Time
17. Look At Me
18. Watching The Wheels

Roots

1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. You Can't Catch Me
3. Medley: Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
4. Tight A$
5. Ain't That a Shame
6. Sweet Little Sixteen
7. Do You Wanna Dance
8. Slippin' and Slidin'
9. Peggy Sue
10. Medley: Bring It On Home/Send Me Some Lovin'
11. Yer Blues (Live)
12. Just Because
13. Boney Moronie
14. Beef Jerky
15. Ya Ya
16. Hound Dog (Live)
17. Stand By Me
18. Here We Go Again

JOHN LENNON SIGNATURE BOX [11CD; Digital]

Original Albums [digitally remastered]

- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
- Imagine
- Some Time In New York City
- Mind Games
- Walls and Bridges
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Double Fantasy
- Milk and Honey

Home Tapes

1. Mother
2. Love
3. God
4. I Found Out
5. Nobody Told Me
6. Honey Don't
7. One Of The Boys
8. India, India
9. Serve Yourself
10. Isolation
11. Remember
12. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
13. I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die

Singles

1. Power To The People
2. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
3. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
4. Cold Turkey
5. Move Over Ms. L
6. Give Peace a Chance

ORIGINAL ALBUMS (REMASTERED) [CD; Digital]

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)

1. Mother
2. Hold On
3. I Found Out
4. Working Class Hero
5. Isolation
6. Remember
7. Love
8. Well Well Well
9. Look At Me
10. God
11. My Mummy's Dead

Imagine (1971)

1. Imagine
2. Crippled Inside
3. Jealous Guy
4. It's So Hard
5. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die
6. Gimme Some Truth
7. Oh My Love
8. How Do You Sleep?
9. How?
10. Oh Yoko!

Some Time In New York City (1972)
DISC ONE

1. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
2. Sisters, O Sisters
3. Attica State
4. Born In a Prison
5. New York City
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. The Luck Of The Irish
8. John Sinclair
9. Angela
10. We're All Water

DISC TWO

1. Cold Turkey (live)
2. Don't Worry Kyoko (live)
3. Well (Baby Please Don't Go) (live)
4. Jamrag (live)
5. Scumbag (live)
6. Au (live)

Mind Games (1973)

1. Mind Games
2. Tight A$
3. Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
4. One Day (At A Time)
5. Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)
6. Nutopian International Anthem
7. Intuition
8. Out The Blue
9. Only People
10. I Know (I Know)
11. You Are Here
12. Meat City

Walls and Bridges (1974)

1. Going Down On Love
2. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
3. Old Dirt Road
4. What You Got
5. Bless You
6. Scared
7. #9 Dream
8. Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
9. Steel And Glass
10. Beef Jerky
11. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)
12. Ya Ya

Rock 'n' Roll (1975)

1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. Stand By Me
3. Medley: Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
4. You Can't Catch Me
5. Ain't That A Shame
6. Do You Wanna Dance
7. Sweet Little Sixteen
8. Slippin' And Slidin'
9. Peggy Sue
10. Medley: Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin'
11. Bony Moronie
12. Ya Ya
13. Just Because

Double Fantasy Stripped Down (2010) / Double Fantasy (1980)

Stripped Down - Original Album, Remastered

1. (Just Like) Starting Over
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Cleanup Time
4. Give Me Something
5. I'm Losing You
6. I'm Moving On
7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
8. Watching The Wheels
9. Yes, I'm Your Angel
10. Woman
11. Beautiful Boys
12. Dear Yoko
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14. Hard Times Are Over

Milk and Honey (1984)

1. I'm Stepping Out
2. Sleepless Night
3. I Don't Wanna Face It
4. Don't Be Scared
5. Nobody Told Me
6. O'Sanity
7. Borrowed Time
8. Your Hands
9. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
10. Let Me Count The Ways
11. Grow Old With Me
12. You're The One

SOURCE EMI Music : http://www.johnlennon.com/

New albums in my collection

Ace Frehley - Second Sighting and Live + 1

David Bowie - Never Let Me Down and Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy

R.E.O. Speedwagon -Nine Lives and Self-titled

Genesis - Wind and the Wuthering and Trespass

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games and Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

Slade - Keep Your Hands Off Our Power Supply and The Firm - Mean Business

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire and ...Sings Hank Williams

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison and The Buddy Holly Story

Nancy Sinatra - Boots and How Does That Grab You? (both mono)

Nancy Sinatra - ... in London and Country My Way (stereo)

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar (great cover!) and Movin' with Nancy (television special with "special" guests)

Zebra - Self-titled and No Tellin' Lies

Klatuu - 1st album and The Immortal Otis Redding

Sgt. Barry Sadler - ballad of the Green Berets and Soundtrack for "The Happening"

Ramsey Lewis - Dancing in the Street and Wade in the Water

Ramsey Lewis - Never On a Sunday and Up Pops Ramsey Lewis

Patsy Cline - Show Case and Ramsey Lewis - Another Voyage

Patsy Cline - Golden Hits and Here's Patsy Cline

Ravi Shankar - At the Woodstock Fest. and Six Ragas

Isaac Hayes - In the Beginning and Henry Mancini - Music from Peter Gunn

Peter, Paul and Mary - Album and Album 1700

Peter, Paul and Mary - Moving and 10 Years Together

Erroll Garner - Gems and Plays Misty

Dave Brubeck - Time Changes and Summit Sessions

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles and Prgressive Jazz Compilation

Here's Louis Armstong and Tony Bennet and Count Basie - Strike Up the Band

Oscar Peterson Trio - Stratford Shakespearean Fest. and Leon Redbone - On the Track

Sonny and Cher - Look at Us and In Case You're in Love

Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate and Monday Night at...

Portrait of Adlai Stevenson (talking record) and Jazz in the Space Age (with Bill Evans)

Chuck Mangione

Some "new" used vinyl I just picked up (in GREAT condition)!

New (to me) vinyl I just aquired!

Band On The Run - Half-speed Master (oh, yeah) and John Mayall - USA Union

Former (early) Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer - Flee and a blues comp. from London Records (just look who's on it!)

Best of Mark~Almond (John Mark and Johnny Almond formerly with John Mayall) and It's A Beautiful Day - Marrying Maiden

Rick Wakemen - Legend of King Arthur.... and Journey to the Centre of the Earth (dad had these when I was a kid, he didn't like the 1st - I did, we both enjoy the 2nd)

David Gilmore - About Face (1984) and Isle of Wight Fest (3 records)

Still sealed Great White - On Your Knees and Shot in the Dark

Still Sealed Great White - Recovery: LIVE and opened but very clean ...Twice Shy

The next 6 albums I got free last summer, but are in Near Mint condition and sound UNBELIEVABLE on my newly re-conditioned turntable with brand new Grado Blue1 cartridge and stylus.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and DAve Brubeck Quart. - Time Out on Columbia Jazz Digital Remasters

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme

Benny Goodman - All-time GH and Miles Davis- Porgy and Bess (never heard this one before although I was aware of it.... REALLY GOOD!!! Highly suggested!

The Year of the Beatles - 2009

2009 was surely the year of The Beatles. With the long awaited Mono and Stereo Remasters, Beatles Rockband, and so many other Beatles related events.


I am offering a one-time special "cover" for the beginning of 2010!

Here are the many Beatles covers! From the EMI UK releases to the US Capitol albums, as well as some rare ones like the Vee Jay release here in the US (before Capitol Records began distributing them) Introducing the Beatles and the origianal "butcher cover" of Yesterday and Today. Here is a complete list - line by line, left to right, of titles!

Line 1: The Early Tapes of The Beatles with Tony Sheridan, Please Please Me (EMI- UK), Intoducing the Beatles (Vee Jay- US), with the beatles (EMI- UK), Meet The Beatles (Capitol- US), Twist and Shout b/w She Loves You (Capitol- US single), The Beatles Second Album (Capitol- US), Hard Days Night Soundtrack (United Artists- US)

Line 2: Something New (Capitol- US), Hard Days Night (EMI- UK), Songs, Pictures and Stories of The Beatles (Vee Jay- US), The Beatles Story (Capitol- US), Beatles For Sale (EMI- UK), Beatles '65 (Capitol- US), The Early Beatles (Capitol- US), Beatles VI (Capitol- US)

Line 3: Help! (EMI- UK), Help! Soundtrack (Capitol- US), Rubber Soul (Capitol- US; the EMI- UK had orange color lettering and songs in a different sequence as did the US version of Revolver compared to the original EMI- UK version), Yesterday and Today (butcher cover, Capitol- US), Yesterday and Today (trunk cover, Capitol- US), Revolver (EMI- UK; see Rubber Soul above), A Collection of Beatle Oldies (EMI- UK), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1st album to be released with the same song order by both EMI and Capitol)

Line 4: Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles (Apple, also known as " the white album), Yellow Submarine Soundtrack, Abbey Road (Apple), Hey Jude (Apple, also listed as The Beatles, Again), Let It Be (Apple), The Beatles Christmas Album (Capitol- US; this is one album featuring all of the Beatles Fan Club Xmas recordings that were sent to the fan club members every Xmas from 1963 to 1969), The Beatles 1962-1966 (Capitol- US; also known as "the red album")

Line 5: The Beatles 1966-1970 (Capitol- US; also known as "the blue album"), Beatles Rock 'n' Roll Music (Capitol- US), Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Capitol- US: great sounding live album recorded in 1964), The Beatles Live at the Start Cub in Hamburg, Germany: 1962 (Lingasong records (bad sound recording from the very early days of the beatles with Stu Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums(before Ringo) - nice for the collectors), Love Songs (Capitol- US), Rarities (Capitol- US although EMI- UK released on with a differnt cover; much of this would end up on the Past Masters), Rarities (EMI- UK; alternate cover), Reel Music (Capitol- US; features songs from the films)

Line 6: 20 Greatest Hits (Capitol-US), Past Masters Volume 1 (EMI- UK), Paste Masters Volume 2 (EMI- UK), Live @ the BBC (Apple), Antholgy Volume 1 (Apple), Anthology Volume 2 (Apple), Anthology Volume 3 (Apple; covers painted by longtime Beatle friend, Klaus Voorman (whom they met in Hamburg, Germany and since has played bass on many of John's solo albums), Yellow Submarine Songtrack (Capitol- US; Different from the soundtrack as it has all of the songs featured in the movie, without George Martin's background scores)

This ends without adding to the collection, these releases:

These 3 above came free with the Anthology purchase.

A fresh new version of Let It Be as intended by The Beatles in the first place, before Phil Spector ruined it with orchestra backing and other worthless sound. This is MUCH better!

THE number ones!

The Capitol releases on CD for the very 1st time up to Revolver, All the discs have the stereo and mono mixes of each album!

An unbelievable soundtrack to the Cirque de Soleil Las Vegas show featuring The Beatles music. George Martin and son Giles did a mix-mash up of different Beatles song to make up a dreamy, psychedelic wonder of an album!

Here is the Stereo Remaster Box Set from 2009...

..and the Mono Remaster Box Set!

Now, wasn't that fun?