Culture Re-View: The only European gig the Plastic Ono Band played
After the Beatles broke up, the fab four all went their separate ways with their careers. Paul McCartney went solo and formed the band Wings, George Harrison produced multiple outstanding solo albums, and Ringo Starr did… whatever Ringo Starr did.
John Lennon also went off to make his own music. He didn’t do it alone though. Alongside his wife Yoko Ono, Lennon formed the Plastic Ono Band. Ono has erroneously been blamed as the reason the Beatles originally broke up, but by the time they did disband, it was clear that Lennon’s priorities were in artistic projects with his new wife.
The band was first conceived of as a “Fluxus” band that emphasised the means of producing art over the finished product. Breaking out of many of the trademarks that the Beatles first curated on the music scene, the Plastic Ono Band was formed in 1968 as a multi-media art project more than a typical rock band.
Ono and Lennon had worked together extensively on music, collaborating on songs that Lennon would record with the Beatles, and performing live with the Scouse singer-songwriter throughout the end of the 60s.
Some of the first major acts of the Plastic Ono Band – really just the pair – were their “Bed-in for Peace” events. They used these awareness raising events to record music, including ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘Remember Love’, the first singles the band released and that Lennon had released outside of the Beatles.
Source: euronews.com
