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Title: Primal Scream: The Trauma Behind John Lennon’s Brilliant Plastic Ono Band
Post by: peregrine9 on February 21, 2012, 01:46:51 AM
Gibson Lifestyle
February 20, 2012
Primal Scream: The Trauma Behind John Lennon’s Brilliant Plastic Ono Band

Beatles fans who favored John Lennon’s most deeply personal songs – “Julia,” “I’m a Loser,” “Help!” – could scarcely have imagined the searing introspection Lennon would unleash with his first post-Beatles solo album. Released in December 1970, Plastic Ono Band gave new meaning to so-called confessional songwriting. Framed by rock’s most basic instrumentation – bass (played by Klaus Voormann), drums (played by Ringo Starr) and guitar and piano (played by Lennon himself), the former Beatle presented himself in all his myriad guises, from angry rebel to devoted soulmate to questing artist striving to free himself from the shackles of Beatledom

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/john-lennon-0220-2012/ (http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/john-lennon-0220-2012/)