Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026)
Genre: Documentary / Music
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Simon Hilton
Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and John Ward
Releasedate: 10 April 2026
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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC plot
Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC is a concert film featuring footage of two live performances by John Lennon & Yoko Ono at Madison Square Garden in New York on August 30, 1972. John and Yoko gave these One-to-One concerts with their Plastic Ono Band to a total audience of 40,000 spectators, raising over $1.5 million for children with intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders. They were the only full concerts John Lennon gave (with Yoko Ono) after leaving The Beatles. The songs performed include John's 'New York City', 'Instant Karma!', 'Imagine', and 'Mother', and Yoko's 'Don't Worry Kyoko' and 'Open Your Box'.
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The concert recording shows what John Lennon was occupied with at the time – musically as well as politically – with Yoko Ono explicitly given an equal role alongside her famous husband: she wrote and sings half of the songs herself, which she does quite well, by the way. Her Fluxus background and amateurism lend a somewhat punky feel to her provocative lyrics and performance, through which she seems to anticipate the New Wave of later New York; however, you naturally perk up most when John Lennon sings his songs, which are mainly singles from his still-short solo career (with only Come Together from the Beatles era, a period I think he wants to break with more radically than McCartney). There is little to criticize about the show, which combines a professional performance of the music with a sort of Fluxus happening, but you do miss the unsurpassable magic of when The Four Lads were still together.
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