John Lennon - SHM CDs *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 8th May 2026
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Double Fantasy / John Lennon And Yoko Ono

In the five years since 1975, John Lennon’s life had seen some unaccustomed tranquillity. For the first time since The Beatles’ rapid ascent, he was free of all recording obligations. His longstanding struggles with US immigration were successfully concluded. Reunited with Yoko, the couple were at last blessed with the child they had longed for.

Since Sean’s birth, John had devoted himself to fatherhood and domesticity, two pursuits he had never conspicuously shone at. He made occasional home recordings, but the music industry must learn to get along without him.

Features the 2010 remaster and includes the 2010-edition booklet, Inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Tracklist

1. (Just Like) Starting Over
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Cleanup Time
4. Give Me Something
5. I’m Losing You
6. I’m Moving On
7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
8. Watching the Wheels
9. Yes, I’m Your Angel
10. Woman
11. Beautiful Boys
12. Dear Yoko
13. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
14. Hard Times Are Over

Imagine

Featuring the 2018 Ultimate Mixes that have been faithfully remixed from the ground up by triple Grammy® Award winning engineer Paul Hicks at Abbey Road Studios under the supervision of Yoko Ono Lennon, using high-definition 24-96 audio transfers of the original first-generation multi-track recordings, these Ultimate Mixes reveal whole new levels of sonic depth, definition and clarity.

This SHM-CD includes bonus tracks, 2018-edition booklet, poster, 2 x postcards, inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Tracklist

1. Imagine
2. Crippled Inside
3. Jealous Guy
4. It’s So Hard
5. I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama, I Don’t Wanna Die
6. Gimme Some Truth
7. Oh My Love
8. How Do You Sleep?
9. How?
10. Oh Yoko!

[Bonus Tracks]

11．Power To The People

12.Well… (Baby Please Don’t Go)

13.God Save Us

14.Do The Oz

15.God Save Oz

16.Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Milk And Honey / John Lennon And Yoko Ono

Its cover artwork suggests a sequel to Double Fantasy – their respective photographs of John and Yoko look separated by mere moments (as indeed they were). Yet, for us, the albums are divided by the widest gulf we could possibly imagine – the death of John, which occurred in between.

Maybe for this reason, Milk And Honey has always seemed an orphan among John Lennon’s recordings. It was the first posthumous release of unheard material, appearing some three years after his death. His own contributions to the album were never signed off by John himself. Like Double Fantasy, the record is structured as a “Heart Play”, or dialogue, of his songs and Yoko’s. But he was not there to help her assemble that particular conversation. With one or two notable exceptions, he was not familiar with Yoko’s tracks, at least not in their finished form. And yet, Milk And Honey is a great John and Yoko record. It fully deserves its place in the tradition of Double Fantasy or their early avant-garde releases or any of the towering songs their names are jointly engraved upon.

Uses the 2010 remaster and includes the 2010-edition booklet, inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics

Tracklist

1. I’m Stepping Out
2. Sleepless Night
3. I Don’t Wanna Face It
4. Don’t Be Scared
5. Nobody Told Me
6. O’ Sanity
7. Borrowed Time
8. Your Hands
9. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
10. Let Me Count the Ways
11. Grow Old with Me
12. You’re the One

Mind Games

Anchored by the buoyant peace-and-love anthem, ‘Mind Games’, John Lennon’s fourth album of the same name, was surprisingly written and recorded during an incredibly tumultuous time in the rock legend’s life. In 1973, at age 33, John found himself in personal and political upheaval. A years-long deportation battle with U.S. immigration continued to rage on while his high-profile anti-Nixon campaigning, anti-Vietnam war activism, as well as the overtly political messages on his polarizing 1972 album, Sometime in New York City, made him a target of a newly elected Richard Nixon, leading to surveillance by the FBI.

Using the 2024 Ultimate Mixes, this SHM-CD includes a bonus track, 2025-edition booklet, inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics

Tracklist

1. Mind Games
2. Tight A$
3. Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)
4. One Day (At A Time)
5. Bring On The Lucie (Freda People)
6. Nutopian International Anthem
7. Intuition
8. Out The Blue
9. Only People
10. I Know (I Know)
11. You Are Here
12. Meat City
13. I’m The Greatest

Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon’s first solo album was far from being his first work outside of the Beatles. To widespread bewilderment, he and Yoko Ono had already released three avant-garde recordings (Two Virgins, Life With The Lions and Wedding Album). And with the Plastic Ono Band the couple had made the in-concert rock album Live Peace In Toronto 1969.

John had even achieved three massive hit singles: ‘Give Peace A Chance’, ‘Cold Turkey’ and ‘Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)’. All were done with scarcely a fellow “Fab” in sight.

Features the 2021 Ultimate Mixes and includes the bonus tracks, 2021-edition booklet, Inner bag, “War Is Over” poster and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics

Tracklist

1. Mother

2. Hold On

3. I Found Out

4. Working Class Hero

5. Isolation

6. Remember

7. Love

8. Well Well Well

9. Look At Me

10. God

11. My Mummy’s Dead

   [Bonus tracks]

12. Give Peace A Chance

13. Cold Turkey

14. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)

Rock ‘N’ Roll

Rock’N’Roll has one of the strangest back-stories in music folklore. From its unpromising origins in a legal morass and months of drunken time-wasting, John rescued this sparkling tribute to the bygone era that he adored. Its tracks were all cover versions, and hardly the mass anthems or scarred confessionals Lennon was known for. Yet Rock’N’Roll was both revealing and delightful. These same tracks resurrected the leather-clad, greasy-quiffed Liverpool teenager who still lived inside John Lennon’s head.

Uses the 2010 remaster and includes the 2010-edition booklet and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Tracklist

1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. Stand By Me
3. Medley: Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
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. Medley: Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin’
11. Bony Moronie
12. Ya Ya
13. Just Because

Walls and Bridges

By the summer of 1974, John had been living apart from Yoko for nearly a year. Quartered in Los Angeles he entered a boisterous spell tagged Lennon’s Lost Weekend.  Like its predecessor Mind Games, the new album would be self-produced. As to the musicians, among familiar names like Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann and Nicky Hopkins and a couple of luminary guests that included Nilsson and the hottest rock star of the moment, Elton John. It was Elton who spotted the chart-topping potential of ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’, a storming track to which he contributes. Indeed he won his friendly bet that this song would be Lennon’s first solo Number 1 – for which his “price” would be a guest appearance by John at Elton’s Madison Square Garden show. 

Uses the 2010 remaster and includes the 2010-edition booklet, inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Tracklist

1. Going Down On Love
2. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
3. Old Dirt Road
4. What You Got
5. Bless You
6. Scared
7. #9 Dream
8. Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
9. Steel and Glass
10. Beef Jerky
11. Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down And Out)
12. Ya Ya

Live Peace in Toronto 1969 / The Plastic Ono Band

Live Peace in Toronto 1969 was recorded at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival held at Varsity Stadium, at the University of Toronto on 13 September 1969. John & Yoko were invited by promoters John Brower and Kenny Walker, and hastily assembled the Plastic Ono Band (Eric Clapton: guitar, Klaus Voormann: bass, and Alan White: drums) in time to play at the festival the following day. The band’s rehearsals took place entirely acoustically on the flight to Toronto from London.

The Plastic Ono Band played eight songs to the 25,000 strong crowd. They were introduced by Kim Fowley, and John said to the crowd that the group were going to play only songs that they knew. John’s then latest song, ‘Cold Turkey’, and Yoko’s ‘Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)’ had their first public outings at the festival. The band closed with an extended experimental jam, ‘John, John (Let’s Hope for Peace)’ the end of which saw the band leaving their instruments onstage to feedback until turned off by the Lennons’ personal assistant, Mal Evans.

1CD-SHM with recreated original LP replica sleeves featuring original artwork with a miniature Japanese obi-strap. Includes a replica of John & Yoko’s 1970-calendar and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Tracklist

1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. Money
3. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
4. Yer Blues
5. Cold Turkey
6. Give Peace A Chance
7. Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)
8. John John (Let's Hope For Peace)

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