Los Angeles - March 4, 2021 - From the haunting sound of funeral bells and the emotional wail on opener "Mother," it was clear that John Lennon's first studio album as a solo artist was nothing like his previous work. Recorded in 1970, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band was recorded shortly after the end of The Beatles. John stripped the album of all trappings and made room for a kind of creative exorcism, an almost unbearably honest soul striptease that held more than one revelation. The primal scream therapy John and his wife Yoko Ono performed with Dr. Arthur Janov served as inspiration.

With the minimalist Plastic Ono Band - featuring Ringo Starr on drums, Klaus Voorman on bass and producer Phil Spector - John faced his demons, proclaimed his love for his wife, confronted false role models and buried a dream on the most personal album of his career. Today, the album is considered the absolute crowning achievement of his solo career, the moment when the world's greatest rock star opened up his soul and laid it at everyone's feet - honest and revolutionary as it was at its core.