Catalog Number: SVBB-3392

Condition Details:

Record 1 plays with crackles and occasional clicks and pops; Record 2 plays perfectly (play-graded). Double LP. Matte gate-fold cover looks good; light-scuffing and discoloration with darker discoloration spots (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeves are original (credits/artwork); five seams partially split. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear and splits along top-edge; bottom-edge is completely split. Wear to corners. Openings are crisp with signs of light use. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Sisters O Sisters (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Attica State (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Born In A Prison (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• New York City (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• The Luck Of The Irish (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• John Sinclair (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Angela (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• We're All Water (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Live Jam: John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band With A Cast Of 1000's
• Cold Turkey (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Don't Worry Kyoko (with The Plastic Ono Band )
• Live Jam: John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band With Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
• Well (Baby, Please Don't Go) (with The Plastic Ono Band, Frank Zappa, and The Mothers )
• Jamrag (with The Plastic Ono Band, Frank Zappa, and The Mothers )
• Scumbag (with The Plastic Ono Band, Frank Zappa, and The Mothers )
• Au (with The Plastic Ono Band, Frank Zappa, and The Mothers )

About The Record:

Some Time In New York City, is a part-studio, part-live double album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with the American rock band Elephant's Memory. It is the third album to bear Lennon's name since he left the Beatles, and his fourth with Ono. Like Lennon's previous solo albums, it was co-produced by Lennon, Ono and Phil Spector. The album's lyrics are very politically charged compared to its predecessors, discussing political and social issues and topics such as sexism, incarceration, colonialism, and racism. Recording for the album's studio portion took place between December 1971 and March 1972 while the live portion, released as Live Jam, was recorded on 15 December 1969 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London for a UNICEF charity concert and on June 6, 1971 at Fillmore East in New York City. Musicians who contributed to the 1969 performance included Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins, Keith Moon and Klaus Voormann, while the 1971 performance featured Frank Zappa and his band the Mothers of Invention. Preceded by the single Woman Is the Nigger of the World, which caused controversy due to its title, Some Time in New York City received scathing reviews on release and performed poorly commercially. Reviewers were especially critical of its politically charged content. Zappa was critical of Lennon and Ono's handling of the recordings of the Mothers performance, eventually releasing his own version of the performance on Playground Psychotics (1992). Some Time in New York City was reissued on compact disc in 2005 as a single album, removing several of the Live Jam songs while adding other non-album singles, and again on CD in 2010 in its original double album format.