John Lennon & Yoko Ono at the One To One Concert, August 30, 1972. Photo by Michael Negrin © Yoko Ono Lennon

A new 12-disc box set, featuring 123 tracks that present John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s nonviolent commitment to political activism through protest anthems that promote peace and love, aptly titled Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition), via Capitol/UMe, will arrive on October 10, Lennon’s 85th birthday. As a preview, a previously unreleased and newly remixed video of The Beatles’ “Come Together,” from Lennon and Ono’s famed One on One Concert, is out now. 

The set provides a roadmap that tracks the couple’s start in the British countryside, migration to the lauded Greenwich Village. This move fueled their shared artistic endeavors and inspired further political and environmental advocacy, leading to some of their best compositions and features of the box set.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon and a team of five-time Grammy winners, who took home the 2025 Grammy for Best Boxed Set or Special Limited Edition Package for Mind Games – The Ultimate Collection (Super Deluxe Edition), Power to the People follows a similar charge, this time meditating on the couple’s political era and spanning the Plastic Ono Band’s 1969 anti-war paean “Give Peace A Chance,” to 1972’s Sometime In New York City. 

The box set spans from in-studio work to live performances, including 1972’s triumphant One To One Concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which was Lennon’s only full-length concert after departing from The Beatles, and the last show the couple played together. 

“That Madison Square Garden gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since The Cavern or even Hamburg,” John Lennon told NME in 1972. “It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles used to really get into it.”

“The One To One concert was our effort in Grassroots Politics,” writes Yoko Ono Lennon in the Preface to Power To The People. “It embodied what John and I strongly believed in – Rock for Peace and Enlightenment. And this one in Madison Square Garden turned out to be the last concert John and I did together. Imagine Peace. Peace is Power. Power To The People!”

Filling out the collection are unreleased demos, home recordings, jam sessions, live cuts, and one-of-a-kind mixes, making Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition) a must for connoisseurs of Lennon’s post-Beatles career.

Speaking of his experience, Sean Ono Lennon says, ​​“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time.”

He continues, “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.”

When I was eleven, my mum put out the Live in New York City album and film. So I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert. For the concerts, Paul Hicks and Simon Hilton and I spent a lot of time finding the best possible balance to keep the feeling of a live show while refining the overall sound as much as possible and Sam Gannon did some meticulous and miraculous work with audio restoration. I won’t disclose all our techniques but there was some ‘movie magic’ required, and I think in the end, the shows sound better than ever,”  he concludes. 

Watch the previously unreleased clip of “Come Together” below. 
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THE ONE TO ONE CONCERT

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory and Special Guests

Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City

30 August 1972

CD1 / BR1

HYBRID ‘BEST OF’ SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro)* †

2. New York City*

3. It’s So Hard*

4. Move On Fast* †

5. Well Well Well †

6. Born In A Prison* †

7. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)*

8. Mother*

9. We’re All Water †

10. Come Together †

11. Imagine*

12. Open Your Box* †

13. Cold Turkey* †

14. Don’t Worry Kyoko* †

15. Hound Dog

16. Law And Order

17. Give Peace A Chance

* denotes afternoon show, otherwise the performance is from the evening show

CD2 / BR1

AFTERNOON SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro) †

2. New York City

3. It’s So Hard

4. Move On Fast †

5. Well Well Well

6. Born In A Prison †

7. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)

8. Mother

9. We’re All Water †

10. Come Together

11. Imagine

12. Open Your Box †

13. Cold Turkey †

14. Don’t Worry Kyoko †

15. Hound Dog †

CD3 / BR1

EVENING SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro) †

2. New York City †

3. It’s So Hard †

4. Move On Fast †

5. Well Well Well †

6. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) †

7. Mother †

8. We’re All Water †

9. Born In A Prison †

10. Come Together †

11. Imagine †

12. Open Your Box †

13. Cold Turkey

14. Hound Dog

15. Law And Order

16. Give Peace A Chance

CD4 / BR2

NEW YORK CITY (THE ULTIMATE MIXES)

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory plus Invisible Strings

1. New York City (Ultimate Mix)

2. Sisters, O Sisters (Ultimate Mix)

3. Attica State (Ultimate Mix)

4. Born In A Prison (Ultimate Mix)

5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ultimate Mix, extended)

6. The Luck Of The Irish (Ultimate Mix)

7. John Sinclair (Ultimate Mix, extended)

8. Angela (Ultimate Mix)

9. We’re All Water (Ultimate Mix)

CD5 / BR2

NEW YORK CITY (THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY)

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory plus Invisible Strings

1. New York City (Evolution Documentary) †

2. Sisters, O Sisters (Evolution Documentary) †

3. Attica State (Evolution Documentary) †

4. Born In A Prison (Evolution Documentary) †

5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Evolution Documentary) †

6. The Luck Of The Irish (Evolution Documentary) †

7. John Sinclair (Evolution Documentary) †

8. Angela (Evolution Documentary) †

9. We’re All Water (Evolution Documentary) †

CD6 / BR2

NEW YORK CITY (STUDIO JAM)

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory

1. Jazz Freakout †

2. You Can’t Sit Down †

3. Roll Over Beethoven †

4. Honey, Don’t †

5. Ain’t That A Shame †

6. My Babe †

7. Send Me Some Lovin’ †

8. Fools Like Me †

9. Down In The Caribbean †

10. Happy Birthday Yoko Ono †

11. That’s Right †

12. Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog †

13. Yoko’s Rhythm †

14. Whole Lotta Shakin’ / It’ll Be Me †

15. Yakety Yak †

16. Road Runner †

NEW YORK CITY (THE ELEMENTS MIXES)

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Invisible Strings

17. Sisters, O Sisters (Elements Mix) †

18. Born In A Prison (Elements Mix) †

19. The Luck Of The Irish (Elements Mix) †

20. Angela (Elements Mix) †

CD7 / BR3

LIVE JAM 1

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band and A Star Studded Cast of Thousands

Peace and Love for Christmas, in aid of UNICEF

Live at the Lyceum Ballroom, The Strand, London

15 December 1969

1. Cold Turkey (live)

2. Don’t Worry Kyoko (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Frank Zappa and The Mothers

Fillmore East, New York

6 June 1971

3. Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (live)

4. Jamrag [Say Please / King Kong / Aawk] (live)

5. Scumbag (live)

6. Aü (live)

CD8 / BR3

LIVE JAM 2

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with David Peel and The Lower East Side

Live at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan

10 December 1971

1. Attica State (live) †

2. The Luck Of The Irish (live)

3. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †

4. John Sinclair (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band

Live at the Benefit for the families of the victims of the riot at Attica State Correctional Facility

Apollo Theater, Harlem, NYC

17 December 1971

5. Attica State (live)

6. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †

7. Imagine (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band

Live on the David Frost TV Show, The Little Theatre, 240 West 44th Street, NYC

16 December 1971

8. Attica State (live) †

9. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †

10. John Sinclair (live) †

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band

Live at the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, Americana Hotel, NYC

4 September 1972

11. Imagine (live) †

12. Now Or Never (live) †

13. Give Peace A Chance (live) †

CD9 / BR3

HOME JAM

John Lennon

Home Recordings at the St. Regis Hotel, New York

10 September 1971

1. Shazam †

2. Honey, Don’t †

3. Glad All Over †

4. Lend Me Your Comb †

5. Wake Up Little Susie †

6. New York City †

7. Wake Up Little Susie †

8. ‘Hey, que pasa?’ †

9. You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care) †

10. Vacation Time †

11. Heartbeat †

12. Peggy Sue Got Married †

13. Peggy Sue †

14. ‘Phone call from Henry Gotsello’ †

15. Peggy Sue †

16. ‘Now we’d like to change the mood a little…’ †

17. Maybe Baby †

18. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues †

19. Rave On! †

20. Twelve Bar Blues †

John Lennon

Home Recordings at the St. Regis Hotel, New York

27 October 1971

21. I Got You †

22. Hi-Heel Sneakers †

23. Slippin’ And Slidin’ †

24. Gone From This Place †

John Lennon

Home Recordings at Campus Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan

10 December 1971

25. Send Me Some Lovin’ †

26. He Got The Blues †

27. When The Teacher †

28. Pill †

29. It’s Real

John Lennon and Phil Ochs

Home Recordings at Campus Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan

10 December 1971

30. I Ain’t Marching Anymore †

31. Joe Hill †

32. Chords Of Fame †