~ John Lennon
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~ John Lennon
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~ George Harrison
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~ The Plastic Ono Band
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~ John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band
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Track Listings
| 1. Be Bop A Lula |
| 2. Stand By Me |
| 3. Rip It Up |
| 4. You Can't Catch Me |
| 5. Ain't That A Shame |
| 6. Do You Wanna Dance |
| 7. Sweet Little Sixteen |
| 8. Slippin' And Slidin' |
| 9. Peggy Sue |
| 10. Bring It On Home To Me |
| 11. Bony Moronie |
| 12. Ya Ya |
| 13. Just Because |
| 14. Ready Teddy |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Whatever John Lennon's reasons for recording a whole album of 1950s rock & roll standards at this advanced stage of his career, he at least made a good job of it. Rock'N'Roll could never recapture the crazed youth that made The Beatles' best cover versions so electrifying, but Lennon, produced with nostalgic glee by Phil Spector, tears into his old favourites and occasionally--as on Ben E. King's "Stand By Me"--hits a real emotional peak. The fabulously atmospheric cover shot of a leather-clad teenage Lennon was, like the record, meant as a fond look backward, and it is fitting. In some ways the 1970s John Lennon was unrecognisable, but in others, as Rock'N'Roll illustrates, he hadn't changed at all. --Taylor Parkes
CD Description
In the five years following the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon established himself as a critically and commercially successful solo artist in addition to dealing with a number of private and public tribulations. Lennon eventually released ROCK'N'ROLL, a batch of covers ranging the gamut of early rock classics from the '50s and '60s. Lennon threw himself lovingly into this project that hearkened back to the simpler times of being a teenager smitten with the sounds of Chuck Berry and Little Richard (both of whom are represented on this record), light years away from any kind of political statements.
Dr. Winston O'Boogie was in full effect whether applying a slight reggae beat to "Stand By Me" and "Do You Want To Dance" or using a pounding piano and honking saxophone to fine effect on "Ain't That A Shame". Unbridled joy can be heard in Lennon's swinging reading of "Slippin' And Slidin'" and within the yelps punctuating Larry Williams' silly "Bony Moronie".
Whatever John Lennon's reasons for recording a whole album of 1950s rock & roll standards at this advanced stage of his career, he at least made a good job of it. Rock'N'Roll could never recapture the crazed youth that made The Beatles' best cover versions so electrifying, but Lennon, produced with nostalgic glee by Phil Spector, tears into his old favourites and occasionally--as on Ben E. King's "Stand By Me"--hits a real emotional peak. The fabulously atmospheric cover shot of a leather-clad teenage Lennon was, like the record, meant as a fond look backward, and it is fitting. In some ways the 1970s John Lennon was unrecognisable, but in others, as Rock'N'Roll illustrates, he hadn't changed at all. --Taylor Parkes
CD Description
In the five years following the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon established himself as a critically and commercially successful solo artist in addition to dealing with a number of private and public tribulations. Lennon eventually released ROCK'N'ROLL, a batch of covers ranging the gamut of early rock classics from the '50s and '60s. Lennon threw himself lovingly into this project that hearkened back to the simpler times of being a teenager smitten with the sounds of Chuck Berry and Little Richard (both of whom are represented on this record), light years away from any kind of political statements.
Dr. Winston O'Boogie was in full effect whether applying a slight reggae beat to "Stand By Me" and "Do You Want To Dance" or using a pounding piano and honking saxophone to fine effect on "Ain't That A Shame". Unbridled joy can be heard in Lennon's swinging reading of "Slippin' And Slidin'" and within the yelps punctuating Larry Williams' silly "Bony Moronie".
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