‘Power To The People’ John & Yoko Box Set With ‘One To One’ Concerts Coming

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John Lennon at the One To One Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1972.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s non-violent political activism, influential peace and protest anthems, and the couple’s early years in New York City, following their migration from the British countryside to the cultural hotbed of Greenwich Village, which reinvigorated them as artists and galvanized them as activists, will be explored and celebrated in a massive new 12-disc boxed set entitled Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition). The collection, via Capitol/UMe arrives on October 10, 2025, one day after Lennon would have been 85.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon and his 5x GRAMMY® Award-winning team—who together took home the 2025 GRAMMY Award for Lennon’s Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection (Super Deluxe Edition)—the Power To The People (SDE) features 123-tracks, including 90 never-before-heard and previously unreleased tracks, that chronicles John and Yoko’s most political era. The set spans from Plastic Ono Band’s 1969 Bed-In anti-war anthem “Give Peace A Chance,” to a new version of their pivotal and polarizing 1972 album, Sometime In New York City, and that year’s historic One To One Concerts at Madison Square Garden in NYC – John’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles and also the last concerts John and Yoko ever performed together. It also boasts a wealth of unreleased demos, home recordings, jam sessions, live cuts, unique mixes and much more. It will be available for pre-order in the U.S. (coming here), in Canada (coming here) and in the U.K. (coming here).

“That Madison Square Garden gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since The Cavern or even Hamburg,” John Lennon told NME in 1972. “It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles used to really get into it.”

Watch them perform “Well Well Well” from the evening concert

“The One To One concert was our effort in grassroots politics,” writes Yoko Ono Lennon in the Preface to the new set. “It embodied what John and I strongly believed in – rock for peace and enlightenment. And this one in Madison Square Garden turned out to be the last concert John and I did together. Imagine Peace. Peace is Power. Power To The People!”

“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time,” said Sean Ono Lennon. “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad. When I was eleven, my mum put out the Live in New York City album and film. So I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert.”

More from the August 14 announcement: Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) comprises 9 CDs and 3 Blu-ray audio discs packaged in a bespoke 10-inch slipcase with silver foil titling and a lenticular cover of John and Yoko’s faces that when layered on top of each other presents a dynamic 3D effect.

It is accompanied by an illuminating 204-page deeply researched hardback book designed and edited by Simon Hilton featuring an oral history about all the included music through the words of John & Yoko and those involved sourced from both archival and new interviews. The book is illustrated with unseen photos, lyrics, drawings, tape boxes and memorabilia. Additionally, the set includes a newspaper print poster, sticker sheets and a VIP envelope containing replica concert tickets, backstage and aftershow passes that have all been uniquely reproduced with textured, archival materials.

Watch the official unboxing video

The centerpiece of Power To The People is the One To One Concerts, which presents both the matinee and evening performances together for the first time. The concerts raised more than $1.5 million (2025 equivalent of $11.5 million) to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. All tracks have been completely remixed and re-engineered from the original analog tapes by Paul Hicks and Sam Gannon, using brand new HD multitrack transfers by Rob Stevens with the mixes mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios. See the complete track listing below.

The concerts are available separately as both “Afternoon” and “Evening” shows and also as a single “Hybrid” show, which brings together the best performances from both shows. The concerts are available in stereo on the CDs and in HD Stereo and immersive 5.1 HD Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos mixes on the Blu-ray audio discs. Previously only old mixes of select performances were available on the long out-of-print 1986 posthumous live album, Live In New York City.

Excerpts from the concerts were featured as part of the new critically acclaimed documentary, One To One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards and Executive Produced by Sean Ono Lennon. The film will be streaming on HBO Max this fall.

The films of the remixed, restored and re-edited concerts are due for release next year as Power To The People, directed by Hilton and edited by Ben Wainwright-Pierce.

The One To One Concert will be available outside of the boxed set in a variety of configurations including the Afternoon and Evening shows as an Audiophile 4-LP Deluxe Collector’s Edition containing four 180-gram vinyl records with rice paper inner sleeves and an 8-page booklet housed in a 12-inch rigid lift-off-lid box, with the same silver foil titling and lenticular cover as the boxed set as well as the same replica VIP envelope with concert tickets and passes and poster. It’s available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.

A 2-CD Deluxe Edition with a triple gatefold digi-sleeve featuring a lenticular cover of John and Yoko’s faces includes a 20-page booklet. [The 2-CD edition is available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada (coming here) and in the U.K. here.] The hybrid concert will also be available on its own, including on 2-LP 180g audiophile black vinyl, limited edition transparent green vinyl and on CD. The vinyl versions contain an 8-page, 12-inch booklet with a 6-panel newsprint poster that provides visual and historical context, alongside 2 full-color postcards. The 2-LP edition is available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada (coming here) and in the U.K. here.

Power To The People is being previewed with a video for the previously unreleased and newly remixed performance of “Come Together” from the One To One Concert evening show, the second of the two performances that day. John & Yoko are backed by the band Elephant’s Memory and drummer Jim Keltner as they play a blistering version of The Beatles’ Abbey Road classic.

Alongside the concerts, Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) offers an aural time capsule of John and Yoko’s first NYC era, when they traded Tittenhurst Park, their estate in Ascot, England, for a small apartment located at 105 Bank St. in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, and includes the music they were inspired to make during a time of great civil unrest and the deeply unpopular Vietnam War. Paramount to their recorded musical endeavors at this time was their 1972 political blockbuster album, Sometime In New York City, recorded by John & Yoko with Keltner and New York’s finest rock ‘n’ roll protest street band, Elephant’s Memory. For this special collection, songs from the album have been completely remixed from scratch, stripped of the overly heavy production sound that constrained such inspired and inspiring songs as “Attic State,” “Angela,” “New York City,” and “Born In A Prison.” The tracks have been reordered, rejuvenated and completely reimagined as a new set of Ultimate Mixes, entitled NEW YORK CITY, which also includes extended versions of “John Sinclair” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

Each track is explored with an Evolution Documentary, a unique track-by-track audio montage by Sam Gannon that details the evolution of each song from demo to master recording via demos, rehearsals, outtakes, multitrack exploration, and studio conversations. A series of four Elements Mixes isolates the orchestral arrangements, opening them up and presenting them on a wider and brighter sound stage, to reveal deeper levels of detail and clarity, especially in 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos. The hope is that after hearing the exquisite orchestral arrangements on their own new details previously hidden in the songs will be heard in a completely new way.

Power To The People is rounded out with several discs of never-before-released home recordings and studio jam sessions aptly titled Studio Jam, Live Jam 1, Live Jam 2 and Home Jam. Studio Jam features John & Yoko with Keltner and Elephant’s Memory at Record Plant Studios during the Sometime In New York City sessions, where in between recording album takes, they spontaneously jammed 16 classic rock n’ roll cover versions. Studio Jam gives a tantalizing glimpse into the fun the musicians had as the tape kept rolling between takes and hints at what was in store for Lennon’s classic 1975 album, Rock ‘N’ Roll.

Live Jam comprises two discs of further completely remixed live performances, expanding on the original 1972 Live Jam LP release that accompanied Sometime In New York City, which included performances of “Cold Turkey” and “Don’t Worry Kyoko” from the 1969 Peace and Love for Christmas UNICEF Benefit at The Lyceum Ballroom (with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and a star-studded cast of thousands) and the 1971 Fillmore East show where John & Yoko jammed with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention on four songs.

The Live Jam 2 disc includes John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with musician David Peel and The Lower East Side performing a handful of stripped down songs that would be released the following year on Sometime in New York City, including the first live performance of “Attica State,” along with “The Luck Of The Irish,” “Sisters, O Sisters,” and “John Sinclair,” on December 10, 1971, at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich., held in support of the release of political activist John Sinclair who was imprisoned for a 10 year sentence for possession of marijuana.

John and Yoko’s acoustic performance on December 17, 1971 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NYC, at a benefit for the families of victims of the riot at the Attica State Correction Facility includes “Attica State,” the song John & Yoko wrote on John’s birthday (October 10, 1971) a few weeks after the tragedy (September 9-13, 1971), “Sisters, O Sisters” and a poignant performance of “Imagine” on acoustic guitar. Also included are John and Yoko’s TV performances on “The David Frost Show” (with Plastic Ono Band) and at the “Jerry Lewis Muscular Telethon” (with Elephant’s Memory).

The thrilling collection concludes with Home Jam, 33 raw, intimate acoustic demos, covers and home recordings from 1971 from John’s private 1/4-inch tape and cassette collections, recorded at the St. Regis Hotel in NYC and the Campus Inn in Ann Arbor, Mich; the latter includes four tracks with protest singer Phil Ochs.

John’s impromptu covers span songs written or popularized by Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Duane Eddy, The Dave Clark Five, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, and others. Aside from one, all of tracks have never been released before.

Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) 9-CD/3-Blu-ray/Book Box Set Track Listing

THE ONE TO ONE CONCERT
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory and Special Guests
Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, August 30, 1972

CD1 / BR1
HYBRID ‘BEST OF’ SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro)* †
2. New York City*
3. It’s So Hard*
4. Move On Fast* †
5. Well Well Well †
6. Born In A Prison* †
7. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)*
8. Mother*
9. We’re All Water †
10. Come Together †
11. Imagine*
12. Open Your Box* †
13. Cold Turkey* †
14. Don’t Worry Kyoko* †
15. Hound Dog
16. Law And Order
17. Give Peace A Chance

* denotes afternoon show, otherwise the performance is from the evening show

CD2 / BR1
AFTERNOON SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro) †
2. New York City
3. It’s So Hard
4. Move On Fast †
5. Well Well Well
6. Born In A Prison †
7. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
8. Mother
9. We’re All Water †
10. Come Together
11. Imagine
12. Open Your Box †
13. Cold Turkey †
14. Don’t Worry Kyoko †
15. Hound Dog †

CD3 / BR1
EVENING SHOW

1. Power To The People (intro) †
2. New York City †
3. It’s So Hard †
4. Move On Fast †
5. Well Well Well †
6. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) †
7. Mother †
8. We’re All Water †
9. Born In A Prison †
10. Come Together †
11. Imagine †
12. Open Your Box †
13. Cold Turkey
14. Hound Dog
15. Law And Order
16. Give Peace A Chance

CD4 / BR2
NEW YORK CITY (THE ULTIMATE MIXES)
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory plus Invisible Strings

1. New York City (Ultimate Mix)
2. Sisters, O Sisters (Ultimate Mix)
3. Attica State (Ultimate Mix)
4. Born In A Prison (Ultimate Mix)
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ultimate Mix, extended)
6. The Luck Of The Irish (Ultimate Mix)
7. John Sinclair (Ultimate Mix, extended)
8. Angela (Ultimate Mix)
9. We’re All Water (Ultimate Mix)

CD5 / BR2
NEW YORK CITY (THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY)

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory plus Invisible Strings
1. New York City (Evolution Documentary) †
2. Sisters, O Sisters (Evolution Documentary) †
3. Attica State (Evolution Documentary) †
4. Born In A Prison (Evolution Documentary) †
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Evolution Documentary) †
6. The Luck Of The Irish (Evolution Documentary) †
7. John Sinclair (Evolution Documentary) †
8. Angela (Evolution Documentary) †
9. We’re All Water (Evolution Documentary) †

CD6 / BR2
NEW YORK CITY (STUDIO JAM)
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory

1. Jazz Freakout †
2. You Can’t Sit Down †
3. Roll Over Beethoven †
4. Honey, Don’t †
5. Ain’t That A Shame †
6. My Babe †
7. Send Me Some Lovin’ †
8. Fools Like Me †
9. Down In The Caribbean †
10. Happy Birthday Yoko Ono †
11. That’s Right †
12. Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog †
13. Yoko’s Rhythm †
14. Whole Lotta Shakin’ / It’ll Be Me †
15. Yakety Yak †
16. Road Runner †

NEW YORK CITY (THE ELEMENTS MIXES)
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Invisible Strings

17. Sisters, O Sisters (Elements Mix) †
18. Born In A Prison (Elements Mix) †
19. The Luck Of The Irish (Elements Mix) †
20. Angela (Elements Mix) †

CD7 / BR3
LIVE JAM 1
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band and A Star Studded Cast of Thousands
Peace and Love for Christmas, in aid of UNICEF
Live at the Lyceum Ballroom, The Strand, London
15 December 1969

1. Cold Turkey (live)
2. Don’t Worry Kyoko (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Frank Zappa and The Mothers
Fillmore East, New York
6 June 1971

3. Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (live)
4. Jamrag [Say Please / King Kong / Aawk] (live)
5. Scumbag (live)
6. Aü (live)

CD8 / BR3
LIVE JAM 2
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with David Peel and The Lower East Side
Live at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan
10 December 1971

1. Attica State (live) †
2. The Luck Of The Irish (live)
3. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
4. John Sinclair (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band
Live at the Benefit for the families of the victims of the riot at Attica State Correctional Facility
Apollo Theater, Harlem, NYC
17 December 1971

5. Attica State (live)
6. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
7. Imagine (live)

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band
Live on the David Frost TV Show, The Little Theatre, 240 West 44th Street, NYC
16 December 1971

8. Attica State (live) †
9. Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
10. John Sinclair (live) †

John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band
Live at the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, Americana Hotel, NYC
4 September 1972

11. Imagine (live) †
12. Now Or Never (live) †
13. Give Peace A Chance (live) †

CD9 / BR3
HOME JAM
John Lennon
Home Recordings at the St. Regis Hotel, New York
10 September 1971
1. Shazam †
2. Honey, Don’t †
3. Glad All Over †
4. Lend Me Your Comb †
5. Wake Up Little Susie †
6. New York City †
7. Wake Up Little Susie †
8. ‘Hey, que pasa?’ †
9. You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care) †
10. Vacation Time †
11. Heartbeat †
12. Peggy Sue Got Married †
13. Peggy Sue †
14. ‘Phone call from Henry Gotsello’ †
15. Peggy Sue †
16. ‘Now we’d like to change the mood a little…’ †
17. Maybe Baby †
18. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues †
19. Rave On! †
20. Twelve Bar Blues †

John Lennon
Home Recordings at the St. Regis Hotel, New York
27 October 1971
21. I Got You †
22. Hi-Heel Sneakers †
23. Slippin’ And Slidin’ †
24. Gone From This Place †

John Lennon
Home Recordings at Campus Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan
10 December 1971
25. Send Me Some Lovin’ †
26. He Got The Blues †
27. When The Teacher †
28. Pill †
29. It’s Real

John Lennon and Phil Ochs
Home Recordings at Campus Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan
10 December 1971
30. I Ain’t Marching Anymore †
31. Joe Hill †
32. Chords Of Fame †
33. Ringing Of Revolution

† denotes never-before-heard, previously unreleased tracks