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With ‘Imagine ’ turning 50 in September, I would what the chance is that we will get another collection in September. Tho we did get the ‘Imagine ’ set a few years ago and it would be strange having two separate sets for one album.
Regardless, we have ‘POB’, ‘ATMP ’ & ‘LIB ’ sets and Scotland in the Euros to come this year. Oh. And I’m sure we’ll get a limited edition 50th anniversary cyan coloured vinyl pressing of ‘Ram ’ as well.
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Offline Paul is gonna kill me when he finally unveils the Ram box set. Hopefully the sheer volume of this POB set can inspire him to pack some more value into his releases.
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Paul is gonna kill me when he finally unveils the Ram box set. Hopefully the sheer volume of this POB set can inspire him to pack some more value into his releases.
‘Ram ’ has already had an archive release, albeit about 25 years ago now. If he starts going back over albums he’s already done to celebrate their 50th anniversaries before he’s issued those still waiting the first time round, god help this forum.
Tho considering ‘McCartney’ got a limited edition purple with yellow spots vinyl release with limited edition cherry stone plucker inside that nobody cared about, here might be safe.
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Offline Posted on the 14th February and provides a little insight to the upcoming ‘POB’ set that is to be announced on the 4th March, the suggested release date is 16th April. ‘Love’ is a montage consisting of demo’s, outtakes and mixes that will surely be on the set which looks to be following the format of the 2018 ‘Imagine ‘ release.
The whole ‘Love’ session has been booted but still, well worth listening to and reading the quotes from John and Yoko that are on screen. Something to really look forward to as the ‘Imagine ‘ box was brilliant (I love the raw mixes).
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Trailer for the Ultimate…
Now off to find the tracklisting. 
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SUPER DELUXE EDITION6 CDs containing 6 hours 18 mins of music: 102 tracks in 44.1kHz/16bit stereo.
2 Blu-Ray Audio Discs containing over 11 hours of music: 159 tracks of High-Definition, Studio Quality 192kHz/24bit audio, including mixes in Stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos.
132-page book.
Poster: ‘WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) Love and Peace from John & Yoko’
2 Postcards: ‘Who Are The Plastic Ono Band?’ and ‘You Are The Plastic Ono Band’DELUXE 2 BLU-RAY TRACK LISTING
THE ULTIMATE MIXES (53 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s Dead
12 Give Peace A Chance
13 Cold Turkey
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On)THE ULTIMATE MIXES/THE OUT-TAKES (49 mins)
01 Mother [take 61]
02 Hold On [take 2]
03 I Found Out [take 1]
04 Working Class Hero [take 1]
05 Isolation [take 23]
06 Remember [rehearsal 1]
07 Love [take 6]
08 Well Well Well [take 2]
09 Look At Me [take 2]
10 God [take 27]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [take 2]
12 Give Peace A Chance [take 2]
13 Cold Turkey [take 1]
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [take 5]THE ELEMENTS MIXES (60 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s Dead
12 Give Peace A Chance
13 Cold Turkey
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On)THE DEMOS (45 mins)
01 Mother [home demo]
02 Hold On [studio demo]
03 I Found Out [home demo]
04 Working Class Hero [studio demo]
05 Isolation [studio demo]
06 Remember [studio demo]
07 Love [home demo]
08 Well Well Well [home demo]
09 Look At Me [home demo]
10 God [home demo]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [home demo]
12 Give Peace A Chance [home demo] *
13 Cold Turkey [home demo] *
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [studio demo] *THE RAW STUDIO MIXES (59 mins)
01 Mother [take 64]
02 Hold On [take 32]
03 I Found Out [take 3 extended]
04 Working Class Hero [take 9]
05 Isolation [take 29]
06 Remember [take 13]
07 Love [take 37]
08 Well Well Well [take extended]
09 Look At Me [take 9]
10 God [take 42]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [take 1]
12 Give Peace A Chance [take 4 extended]
13 Cold Turkey [take 9]
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [take 10]THE RAW STUDIO MIXES/THE OUT-TAKES (50 mins)
01 Mother [take 91]
02 Hold On [take 18] *
03 I Found Out [take 7]
04 Working Class Hero [take 10] *
05 Isolation [take 1] *
06 Remember [take 1] *
07 Love [take 9] *
08 Well Well Well [take 5] *
09 Look At Me [take 3] *
10 God [take 1]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [take 2] *
12 Give Peace A Chance [take 4] *
13 Cold Turkey [take 2] *
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [take 5] *THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY (93 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s Dead
12 Give Peace A Chance *
13 Cold Turkey *
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) *THE JAMS/LIVE AND IMPROVISED (36 mins)
01 Johnny B. Goode
02 Ain’t That a Shame
03 Hold On (1)
04 Hold On (2)
05 Glad All Over
06 Be Faithful to Me
07 Send Me Some Lovin’
08 Get Back
09 Lost John (1)
10 Goodnight Irene
11 You’ll Never Walk Alone (Parody)
12 I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (1)
13 It’ll Be Me
14 Honey Don’t
15 Elvis Parody (Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog/When I’m Over You)
16 Matchbox
17 I’ve Got A Feeling
18 Mystery Train
19 You’re So Square
20 I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (2)
21 Lost John (2)
22 Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand In the Snow)YOKO ONO/PLASTIC ONO BAND – THE LIVE SESSIONS (110 mins)
01 Why *
02 Why Not *
03 Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Carriage All Over the City *
04 Touch Me *
05 Paper Shoes *
06 Life *
07 Omae No Okaa Wa *
08 I Lost Myself Somewhere In the Sky *
09 Remember Love *
10 Don’t Worry Kyoko *
11 Who Has Seen the Wind ** BLU-RAY DISCS ONLY
DELUXE 6CD TRACK LISTING
CD1: THE ULTIMATE MIXES (53 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s Dead
12 Give Peace A Chance
13 Cold Turkey
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On)CD2: THE ULTIMATE MIXES/THE OUT-TAKES (49 mins)
01 Mother [take 61]
02 Hold On [take 2]
03 I Found Out [take 1]
04 Working Class Hero [take 1]
05 Isolation [take 23]
06 Remember [rehearsal 1]
07 Love [take 6]
08 Well Well Well [take 2]
09 Look At Me [take 2]
10 God [take 27]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [take 2]
12 Give Peace A Chance [take 2]
13 Cold Turkey [take 1]
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [take 5]CD3: THE ELEMENTS MIXES (60 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s Dead
12 Give Peace A Chance
13 Cold Turkey
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On)CD4 THE RAW STUDIO MIXES (74 mins)
01 Mother [take 64]
02 Hold On [take 32]
03 I Found Out [take 3 extended]
04 Working Class Hero [take 9]
05 Isolation [take 29]
06 Remember [take 13]
07 Love [take 37]
08 Well Well Well [take extended]
09 Look At Me [take 9]
10 God [take 42]
11 My Mummy’s Dead [take 1]
12 Give Peace A Chance [take 4 extended]
13 Cold Turkey [take 9]
14 Instant Karma ! (We All Shine On) [take 10]
15 Mother [take 91]
16 I Found Out [take 7]
17 God [take 1]CD5 THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY (72 mins)
01 Mother
02 Hold On
03 I Found Out
04 Working Class Hero
05 Isolation
06 Remember
07 Love
08 Well Well Well
09 Look At Me
10 God
11 My Mummy’s DeadCD6 THE JAMS & THE DEMOS (71 mins)
01 Johnny B. Goode
02 Ain’t That a Shame
03 Hold On (1)
04 Hold On (2)
05 Glad All Over
06 Be Faithful to Me
07 Send Me Some Lovin’
08 Get Back
09 Lost John (1)
10 Goodnight Irene
11 You’ll Never Walk Alone (Parody)
12 I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (1)
13 It’ll Be Me
14 Honey Don’t
15 Elvis Parody (Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog/When I’m Over You)
16 Matchbox
17 I’ve Got A Feeling
18 Mystery Train
19 You’re So Square
20 I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (2)
21 Lost John (2)
22 Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand In the Snow)
23 Mother [home demo]
24 Hold On [studio demo]
25 I Found Out [home demo]
26 Working Class Hero [studio demo]
27 Isolation [studio demo]
28 Remember [studio demo]
29 Love [home demo]
30 Well Well Well [home demo]
31 Look At Me [home demo]
32 God [home demo]
33 My Mummy’s Dead [home demo]
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Offline Great way to start the day with a mouth-watering tracklist. Don’t know where I’m going to start once I get my hands on this.
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Offline Have money, willing to give now for immediate delivery.
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Offline I think I might be physically hungry for this. I loved the 2018 Imagine box set and this one looks even better. The John Lennon estate is definitely pushing boundaries on officially released box sets. Paul should take notes and make his archives more like this. Flaming Pie was probably the best archive released to date, and it still is close to nothing compared to what these John Lennon box sets have looked like so far.
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Offline Bob Dylan and John’s estate are examples of really thougtful, thorough and really good box sets. I’m not sure Paul really appreciates the desire his fans have to really go behind the scenes and hear his process.
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Offline I’m not sure I’d agree Dylan’s sets are really thoughtful, @sir walter raleigh, but more his reaction to the European 50-year copyright rules that most now ignore and he still responds to. Bar three of his archive releases in the last decade (The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979-1981; The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks; & The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings) every one has coincided with the 50th anniversary, and his decision whether, and what, to release as part of The Bootleg Series or to just do a very limited physical release in Europe of around 100 copies that’s soon being passed around for free on the interweb. Several times he’s seen the commercial interest in not going for limited edition European release.
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Bob Dylan and John’s estate are examples of really thougtful, thorough and really good box sets. I’m not sure Paul really appreciates the desire his fans have to really go behind the scenes and hear his process.
I’m of the opinion that Paul wants fans to hear the tracks as he remains entrenched in the mindset that the released tracks are great and what everyone wants to hear. Have there been any outtakes of tracks such as ‘Band On The Run ‘, ‘Another Day ‘ etc; the ‘Flaming Pie ‘ set wasn’t much outside of demos and rough mixes? For ‘FITD’ what we got was more to highlight the working relationship with Elvis Costello. All I can really remember is a bit of the vocal rehearsal for ‘Silly Love Songs’, the other outtakes are songs that were never released and pointless crap that can be argued no one ever wanted to hear. It’s the same approach as to when he plays live and gives us all the classics as he figures folk want to hear the hits as recorded back in the day.
The 2018 ‘Imagine ‘ release was brilliant and the upcoming ‘POB’ box looks every bit as good.
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Offline Whos gonna be the one to break it to Paul that fans of his will clamor for outtakes of him chewing vegetables with The Beach Boys
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Offline sir walter raleigh said
Whos gonna be the one to break it to Paul that fans of his will clamor for outtakes of him chewing vegetables with The Beach Boys
A disc of that would be much more valuable to me than a flipbook, or a set of postcards, or a limited edition booklet containing scans of every scrap of memorabilia from the album sessions including the crumbs from the sandwich that was eaten 5 days into recording.
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Offline They just released a box set 6 months ago, so it’s a bit too soon. But I couldn’t pass it up (even though it’s not my favorite). I’m mainly getting it for the Yoko stuff.
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Offline The other release was a compilation because of a reason I have no idea of. It was probably explained at the time, folk couldn’t go out and buy it then whereas now they… erm… Well, Covid and whatever.
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The other release was a compilation because of a reason I have no idea of. It was probably explained at the time, folk couldn’t go out and buy it then whereas now they… erm… Well, Covid and whatever.
you mean Gimme Some Truth ?
it was released on his 80th birthday, so there’s that
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Offline I still remember the effect first hearing this amazing album had on me as a young man over 30 years ago. I don’t think I ever felt so close to an album, it was a very, very important and emotional experience to me.
It looks like an incredible package, listening to it all again is no doubt going to be very special.
What a great talent John was. We all know he had his faults but very few artists could connect with people like him.
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