John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English musician John Lennon. It was released in December 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with wife Yoko Ono and Live Peace in Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was met with critical acclaim, with many praising the production, lyrics, and Lennon's performance. It peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart and at number six on the US Billboard 200.

Co-produced by Lennon, Ono and Phil Spector, the album contains a largely raw production sound with songs heavily influenced by Lennon's then-recent primal scream therapy. Its lyrics reflect Lennon's personal issues and includes themes of child-parent abandonment and psychological suffering. The tracks were recorded in September and October 1970 at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios, simultaneously with Ono's debut avant-garde solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Both albums feature the same musicians (Lennon, Klaus Voormann, and Ringo Starr) and production team and nearly identical cover artwork.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band came to be generally regarded as one of Lennon's finest solo albums. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it fourth in its list "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years" and in 2012, ranked it number 23 in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was voted number 244 in Colin Larkin All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). The album was remastered in 2000 with two bonus tracks: Lennon's 1971 single "Power to the People" and "Do the Oz", which previously appeared on the 1998 box set John Lennon Anthology.

Track listing
All songs written by John Lennon, except where noted.

Side one Side two 2000 reissue bonus tracks
 * 1) "Mother" – 5:34
 * 2) "Hold On" – 1:52
 * 3) "I Found Out" – 3:37
 * 4) "Working Class Hero" – 3:48
 * 5) "Isolation" – 2:51
 * 1) "Remember" – 4:33
 * 2) "Love" – 3:21
 * 3) "Well Well Well" – 5:59
 * 4) "Look at Me" – 2:53
 * 5) "God" – 4:09
 * 6) "My Mummy's Dead" – 0:49
 * 1) "Power to the People" – 3:22
 * 2) "Do the Oz" – 3:07 (Lennon/Ono)

Personnel

 * John Lennon – vocals (all), acoustic guitar (4, 7, 9 & 11), electric guitar (2, 3 & 8), piano (1, 5 & 6), organ (5), tack piano (10)
 * Ringo Starr – drums (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
 * Klaus Voormann – bass guitar (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
 * Phil Spector – piano (7)
 * Billy Preston – grand piano (10)
 * Yoko Ono – "wind"
 * Mal Evans – "tea and sympathy"