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MOST COMPREHENSIVE JOHN LENNON COLLECTION TO DATE. 2 CD SET COMMEMORATES THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Capitol Records will commemorate the 65th anniversary
of John Lennon's birth with the October 4th release of Working Class Hero - The Definitive Lennon. The double CD set, Executive Produced by Yoko Ono, will offer the most comprehensive collection of Lennon's hit singles and key album tracks to date - 38 songs in all, with a combined playing time of over two and one-half hours.

Born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940 and assassinated in New
York
City just over forty years later (December 8, 1980), Lennon rendered a
vision of life that was simultaneously reflective, utopian and
poignantly
realistic. Reflecting his social activism ("Give Peace A Chance,"
"Power To
The People," "Gimme Some Truth," "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World"),
idealism ("Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma!"), his hedonistic
"lost
weekend," as he called the 18 months he spent separated from Yoko Ono
in the
early 1970's ("Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out," "Whatever
Gets
You Thru The Night," the rollicking duet with Elton John that gave him
his
first #1 single as a solo artist), and the happiness he found in later
years
as a self-described "househusband," ("(Just Like) Starting Over,"
"Watching
The Wheels," "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"), Working Class Hero - The
Definitive Lennon captures him in all his complexity.

Mastered from the most up-to-date sources, the collection includes
material
from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), Imagine (1971), Sometime In
New
York City (1972), Mind Games (1973), Walls and Bridges (1974), Rock 'N'
Roll
(1975), Double Fantasy (1980), Live In New York City (recorded in 1972,
but
not released until 1986) as well as numerous singles and tracks from
Milk
and Honey (1984) and Anthology (1998), the posthumous collections of
Lennon's unreleased recordings.

Working Class Hero - The Definitive Lennon

Disc One
Song Source
1. (Just Like) Starting Over Double
Fantasy
2. Imagine Imagine
3. Watching The Wheels Double
Fantasy
4. Jealous Guy Imagine
5. Instant Karma! Single
6. Stand By Me Rock 'N'
Roll
7. Working Class Hero John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
8. Power To The People Single (but
included on John Lennon)
9. Oh My Love Imagine
10. Oh Yoko Imagine
11. Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out Walls And Bridges
12. Nobody Told Me Milk And Honey
13. Bless You Walls And
Bridges
14. Come Together (Live) Live In New York
City
15. New York City Sometime In
New York City
16. I'm Stepping Out Milk And
Honey
17. You Are Here Mind Games
18. Borrowed Time Milk And
Honey
19. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Single (DVD
Mix)

Disc Two
1. Woman Double Fantasy
2. Mind Games Mind Games
3. Out Of The Blue Mind Games
4. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night Walls And
Bridges
5. Love John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
6. Mother John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) Double
Fantasy
8. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World Sometime In
New York City
9. God John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
10. Scared Walls And
Bridges
11. #9 Dream Walls And
Bridges
12. I'm Losing You (Anthology Version) Anthology
13. Isolation John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
14. Cold Turkey Single
15. Intuition Mind Games
16. Gimme Some Truth Imagine
17. Give Peace A Chance Single
18. Real Love Anthology
19. Grow Old With Me Anthology

From Yoko Ono:

"Everyone has been asking me recently if this year will be extra
special for
me since it's John's 65th birthday year and the 25th anniversary of
that
awful day. There isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about
John. But
still, it is very special for me too to think of John at 65, and to
think
what he would be doing if he was here now.

I can immediately see that he would be very, very angry at what's going
on
in the world today. Oh, yes. Violence, accelerated corporate
manipulations
and lies. He wanted the world to be a beautiful place for all of us.
But it
seems we have a long way to go yet for that.

Once he was honored as "The Man Of The Decade". That was 35 years ago.
Now
he is a man of the century and the future. His work inspires all
people, and
his voice reaches the whole planet.

I miss him a lot. We all miss him. His songs are now our songs, our
love,
and our life.

John made some great songs with beautiful music and daring words. He
laid
his life on the line to speak out the truth for all of us.

Enjoy this incredible selection of songs of wisdom and power, and know
that
John is now in the heart of each of us, helping to heal ourselves and
our
planet.

I love you, John. You are the one and only. Yoko"