Ten Interesting Facts About John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band 

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Fun Fact: The show that they played at Toronto was the first recorded time that people raised their lighters in the air during a show after the announcer asked everybody to "Give a warm welcome".

Yoko: *primal screaming* Chuck: 👁👄👁

Plastic Ono Band 1970 is a masterpiece of raw energy, honesty, simplicity and beauty.

I remember how annoying it was to have to get up and skip the Ono songs on the record when I was a kid. They put one in between every Lennon song just to force you to listen to them. They would have never dared to put John’s songs on one side and Yoko’s on the other. And even if I had liked them, my parents would have gone nuts and burned my record...and they were Beatles fans! 😆

Sean Lennon is quite talented in his own right, and I love his work with Les Claypool.

Interesting how the world works. I started my day watching them perform live in Toronto and then this pops up on my feed.

Ya know...I watch all your videos. This was one of the most interesting ones I’ve seen. New topics that I haven’t heard 100 times. Just intriguing from start to finish. Bravo.

Great content as always 👏

Cold Turkey, a pro drug song what fool said that ? Anyone who has gone through it knows very well that it describes heroin withdrawals perfectly. The phrase ; "Goose Pimple Bone" makes no sense to a non-user but to us it's a perfect description of how it feels.

NO WAY Cold Turkey is about a leftover turkey dinner in the fridge. Jesus H. Christ.

Yoko’s “Performances” 🤣🤣

Hi hollyhobs I just want to say I love your videos so much! I also really love your music!

I've only just started the video, but before i forget, i have to say your use of those 1-second John Lennon clips in the intro music always make me smile. It feels like the slightest little taunt to the censors, and it makes me smirk with admiration every time! I think John Lennon would find that amusing and subversively funny too :)

Her Plastic Ono Band LP is SO good! "Why" sounds amazing loud in a club on the dancefloor. His is good, too. :-)

Yes

Was expecting this to be about John's first post-Beatles solo record, but I still liked the video.

I was recently gifted a vinyl titled Indian Rope Trick-Echoes of a Dream by the Beatles. As someone who thinks of themself as a huge Beatles fan, I had never heard of this album. It consists of different alternate takes and unreleased songs from throughout their career. Could you make a video explaining this mysterious compilation album, I’m unable to find any explanations on the internet

when Yoko Ono revived the band they should have renamed it to "Yoko Ono's Plastic Lennon band"

Yoko Ono screaming her way to the top.

I think the one thing we can all agree on here, is that Yoko should be “taken to the land of hell”. (Yoko knows I kid)

he told you bout strawberry fields. y'know the place where nothing is real?

Nice presentation! I remember 'Live Peace in Toronto' coming out. I grabbed 'Money' and 'Dizzy miss Lizzy' from the radio onto my little Phillips casette recorder. 'Money' was really heavy, and 'Dizzy' was kinda like the Beatles, only it sported Clapton's bum guitar note in the intro! Ah, well, those were the days...

new box set of john lennon/plastic ono band out soon so very coooooooooollll

the screaming is what i love. yoko is a punk rocker. i think the hollyhobs need to do detailed reviews of plastic ono band.

"do you remember, your ma & pa / / always wishing, for movie stardom" . . . i love this song 'remember,' from plastic ono band. he is revealing chapters, there . . .

Put simply, Plastic Ono Band was just a name that was used whenever John and or Yoko made or played solo music. Though, I wonder why Double Fantasy wasn't credited to the Plastic Ono Band

Can you make more videos like this plz like other McCartney and Harrison solo albums too

Looking forward to “10 Interesting facts about Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins” :^}

Pet-oo-la Clark. I met her about four years ago...she talked about meeting Lennon during her stage show

I heard that Marc Bolan of T-Rex said "Cold Turkey" was as big a change in rock music as "I Want to Hold your Hand" was in 1964. Actually, T-Rex and Marc Bolan's sometimes 'Lennon like" voice reminds you of "Cold Turkey'.

You should one about the plastic ono band album itself

I've read Seaman's book... It was a hit-piece, and he made no secret that he had an axe to grind. I wouldn't put much weight in a lot of what he has to say.

Didn’t he also play around with the moniker? By the time of mind games, the name of the backing group was the plastic Ono nuclear band

I always find derogatory comments about Yoko to be sort of ridiculous. Of course people who have ears for pop/rock/homophonic music aren't going to find her music appealing. It's the same reason there aren't a lot of "Midwestern Sushi" chains--you have to know your audience. She had sort of Blondie/dark disco/electronic dance vibes in a vast circle of acoustic guitars and traditional Western melodies. I think John expected the world would be as playful and experimental with her offerings as he felt towards them--it was an open-minded time of cultural expansion in music. He enjoyed/found delight in what she created, and he thought others might too. And though the majority of those who hear it aren't fans, there are also people who do legitimately enjoy it, and their opinions are no less valid. I admit I wasn't a fan until my late 20s. (I actually have a really funny story about the first time I heard "Don't Worry Kyoko"--my entire family likely remembers...) :) But I ended up seeing one of her art exhibits in a gallery in NYC in 2008, and I found myself standing in a puddle of tears and heaving breath watching "Cut Piece" for the first time (which was an older work of hers, so I'd read about it and had a sense of its 'intent' already--sort of like having the translation in advance). The whole exhibit was actually really cool--there was this 'interactive' wall-feature that was sort of like a brain/perception exercise, but it was like an introduction into her mind, or another 'space' anyway. I wouldn't call her a musician so much as an artist/performance artist maybe? But John loved her, and I think she ended up being good for him--maybe exactly what/who he needed. And as I get older, I have more and more respect for people with a distinctive character/voice who manage to stand their ground for years. That takes balls. And I'd bet she is fairly ruthless at times (as it's claimed), but strong women are just always tough like that, I guess? Sorry I rambled. I didn't know I had so much to say about this, honestly :)

Yes I clicked on this as soon as I saw it

Does "creative liberty" read as please make it better?

3 things: 1). What? No mention of Al Capp? That's a serious omission. 2). When the aspect ratio is wrong, it crawls up my back. 3). What? No mention of my friend Johnny Brower?

Did you say Tim Keltman or Keltner? His name is Jim Keltner. Btw I do like the channel and your videos.

You shouldn't show a picture overdubbed by audio and a tag saying Klaus Voorman. The pic you used was CLAPTON playing guitar.

“I’d say, oh no” Haha 😉👍🏻

The album itself is great

What would happen if the great Jimi Hendrix and Yoko Ono was to do machine gun that would be so wild

Epic

Patchouli Clarke?!😂

Does nobody not remember that he was suppose to make a remake of “now and then”?or is that just me ?

Maybe the famed record producer known for improving remixes, Steven Wilson, could edit out all the Yoko wailing and re-release all the songs......

So it wasn't about the undercooked turkey after all! Confirmed by John himself! Nice!

Lol "Petulia" Clark and Jim "Keltman?"

The most fascinating fact about the plastic ono band is that it existed in name only

Ono is musical version of a Jackson Pollock painting, but without any appeal.

I've read the book 'Living on borrowed time'. It went into detail about the last 18 months of John's life . Yoko took a lawsuit against it. Why? She didn't like Fredric Seamen telling the truth. It wasn't THAT bad but she must have thought it was.

I think the Fred Seaman quote really sums the man up. He’s just another in a long line of people trying to make money out of John.

00:48 the drummer's name is Jim Keltner...CHRIST!

7:00

Gotta Love Petula Clark. She was really kind of the Den Mother to the British Invasion groups. Here is the thing People paid to see and hear John Lennon music they put up with the screaming I guess they all kept quiet for fear of being outed as a out of touch. Same as listening to Sitar music at a George Harrison concert.

John and Yoko had it ... Real love

6:50 1961? huh? I assume you meant 1971.

You did not mention Klaus Voormann drawing the cover of Revolver

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I know I shouldn't prejudge, but something tells me I'd better not listen to Yoko's album.

I see these videos about Lennon and about John and Yoko's son Sean. And everytime i think about Julian and him not having the financial backing Sean got through his parents money. Julian was mostly forced to try on his own. I know he had money but nowhere near the money Yoko poured in Sean's career, and i think personally that Julian has more of his dads talent in his little finger than Sean will never have.

Mistake at 6:54: you say "in 1961" but I suppose you mean "1971"

John made some good songs post Beatles breakup but he never achieved the magic he did with the lads.

I've been a huge John Lennon fan since Beatles days. However, I think that very little of the music he did after the Beatles broke up is on the same high level (unlike McCartney, who continued to make a lot of really great music with Wings and his other groups). John did write some great songs like "Imagine" and a few others, but the Plastic Ono Band was always just a casual Lennon back-up band. John's popularity was so enormous that he could get away with practically anything, no matter how good or bad, which includes bringing in Yoko to his projects. Most of that stuff is mediocre and forgettable, and some of it is really bad.

There's team Lennon/McCartney and Team Lennon/Ono. Who is on Lennon/McCartney?

Ono.....oh no

Swell, just swell.

Caterwauling was invented by Yoko

2nd

"Who are The Plastic Ono Band?" Idk John, who are they?

Wif beet

After watching Yoko's housefly movie, I have never recovered. Wtf was that? Don't need to go in much details about her primal screaming.

Plastic Ono band was just the Beatles without Paul bossing them around all the time

Best thing about the Plastic Ono thing was Klaus Voorman was the bassist

We got ourselves a Yoko lover.

10 facts, and yet no explanation of why it's called "Plastic Ono Band". Does the word "plastic" carry a different meaning back in the 70s? Why does the name carry "Ono" and not Lennon?

There's just one thing I hate about the Plastic Ono Band, it's a three letter word beginning and ending with "O". She's a gold digger. A friend bought that blue coloured album and before he even played it pulled out his knife and ran it around side B gouging and slashing all the way around.

i've never liked anything to do with yoko, she's one of the worst things to happen to them, she makes me want to scream LOL

Was never a fan of anything he ever did with Yoko. I always thought it was annoying that she has to be sitting in the background blindfolded or walking around opening up curtains or sitting in a black bag while all the musicians play or rudely interrupting Chuck Berry to the point the sound guy has to turn the microphone off. The Beatles breaking up has nothing to do with the hate, just look at the facts listen to the "music" LOL

Yoko thought she was better than the Beatles... talk about a train wreck.

I find it hard to believe that Petula Clark would use so many swearwords. She is a refined and gentle woman and I have met her. Also please pronounce her name correctly!

Yoko o No. One of the worst women in music history

So much Yoko hate makes me sad. She's a remarkable woman whose art isn't for everyone. Could some people who dislike her be racist against Asians?

There's a chance Yoko might sing so I won't be watching this. Catch ya next time

Sean is pro - patriot. End of story. End of his collaboration with the Yoko One Plastic Ono Band. Lady Gaga? Really

That lady is the worst

Worst use of musical talent.

Ono has/had ZERO music ability….God bless her, but ENOUGH

There is nothing interesting about the Plastic Ono Band.