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Power To The People [Box Set]
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  • Summary: Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, the 12-disc (nine CDs and three Blu-ray discs) box set includes 31 newly remixed tracks from both the afternoon and evening One To One Concerts at Madison Square Garden on 30 August 1972 featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Elephant's Memory; a newly remixedProduced by Sean Ono Lennon, the 12-disc (nine CDs and three Blu-ray discs) box set includes 31 newly remixed tracks from both the afternoon and evening One To One Concerts at Madison Square Garden on 30 August 1972 featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Elephant's Memory; a newly remixed version of 1972's Sometime In New York City; an audio documentary about the making of the tracks on New York City; 33 tracks of home recording; 27 live tracks; and a 204-page book.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Uncut
    Oct 15, 2025
    80
    The complete One To One concerts and Live Jam 2 are welcome additions to the brief Lennon live canon, but while Studio Jam is fun, there’s only so much that can be gained from listening to the band running through rock’n’roll classics, however good they are. Of more interest is Home Jam: scraps of home recordings, phone calls and hyperactive Lennon chat. [Nov 2025, p.48]
  2. Rolling Stone
    Oct 15, 2025
    80
    Power to the People might give you some fresh new perspective on the couple’s protest songs, but it wisely doesn’t try to make the case for Sometime in New York City as the under-appreciated classic it isn’t. Instead, it frames these songs in the context of a short-lived but creative interlude in the tangled lives of two complex artists.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 15, 2025
    80
    Completists will appreciate the three-disc focus on the One To One charity concert from August 30, 1972: one disc apiece for the afternoon and evening sets and a ‘hybrid’ selection of the best of both. But intimate ‘home’ recordings, in fact taped in hotel rooms, are more tantalising. [Dec 2025, p.67]
  4. Pitchfork
    Oct 16, 2025
    60
    Frontloading Power to the People with the One To One performances—the two sets are here, along with a hybrid highlights disc—illustrates how Lennon spent the early ’70s wallowing in the pleasures of old-time rock’n’roll. .... These "Studio Jam" passages are loose, maybe even to a fault, but they’re charming, capturing one of the greatest rock vocalists singing unencumbered by an audience. These two discs of informal jams are the ideal coda to Power to the People, which chronicles the era when Lennon was keenly aware that he was performing at all times.
  5. Record Collector
    Oct 30, 2025
    60
    Opening track Woman IS The N***** Of The World has been quietly omitted, which will probably enrage Lennon completists, surely the set's biggest buyers. [Dec 2025, p.91]
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  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 15, 2025
    40
    Some reasonably good live music (Elephant’s Memory bring to Lennon’s music a bluesy heaviness that sometimes suits it and sometimes doesn’t), some intriguing demos (arguably the best material here, whether it be rare Lennon originals or decent rock’n’roll covers) and most of Some Time In New York City, an album that suffers from: a) being terrible, especially The Luck Of The Irish, a song that makes Ed Sheeran’s Galway Girl sound like The Chieftains), and b) the omission of its one great song, whose title means it has been excised from the album. One for the history buffs. [Nov 2025, p.84]

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