John Lennon 'Rock ‘N’ Roll' – 2008 USA Capitol Limited Edition LP – SK-3419 Mint/Factory Sealed, 180 Gram Vinyl, Limited Edition

Scarce And Very Nice Official John Lennon Vinyl LP Issued By Capitol, USA and Faithfully Restored As A Limited Edition On 180 Gram Vinyl.

 The LP contains 14 great Rock n Roll tracks that were produced and arranged by John Lennon and Phil Spector during October 1973 to December 1973 and also produced and arranged by John Lennon between 21 and 25 October 1974.

Issued as part of the 'From The Capitol Vaults' series - Originally released in 1975, 'Rock 'N' Roll' features a collection of late 1950s / early 1960s-era rock songs as covered by John; including 'Be-Bop-A-Lula', 'Stand By Me', 'Do You Want To Dance' & 'Peggy Sue', presented in a sealed & stickered picture sleeve).

There is an official gold Capitol sticker adhered to the front of the shrink wrap. The album is still FACTORY SEALED and is therefore in mint and unplayed condition.

Although the chaotic sessions that spawned this album have passed into rock & roll legend and the recording's very genesis (as an out-of-court settlement between John Lennon and an aggrieved publisher) has often caused it to be slighted by many of the singer's biographers, Rock 'n' Roll, in fact, stands as a peak in his post-Imagine catalog: an album that catches him with nothing to prove and no need to try. Lennon could, after all, sing old rock & roll numbers with his mouth closed; he spent his entire career relaxing with off-the-cuff blasts through the music with which he grew up, and Rock 'n' Roll emerges the sound of him doing precisely that. Four songs survive from the fractious sessions with producer Phil Spector in late 1973 that ignited the album, and listeners to any of the posthumous compilations that also draw from those archives will know that the best tracks were left on the shelf — "Be My Baby" and "Angel Baby" among them. But a gorgeous run through Lloyd Price's "Just Because" wraps up the album in fine style, while a trip through "You Can't Catch Me" contrarily captures a playful side that Lennon rarely revealed on vinyl. The remainder of the album was cut a year later with Lennon alone at the helm, and the mood remains buoyant. It might not, on first glance, seem essential to hear him running through nuggets like "Be Bop A Lula," "Peggy Sue," and "Bring It on Home to Me," but, again, Lennon has seldom sounded so gleeful as he does on these numbers, while the absence of the Spector trademark Wall-of-Sound production is scarcely noticeable — as the object of one of Lennon's own productions, David Peel once pointed out, "John had the Wall of Sound down perfectly himself." Released in an age when both David Bowie and Bryan Ferry had already tracked back to musical times-gone-by (Pin-Ups and These Foolish Things, respectively), Rock 'n' Roll received short shrift from contemporary critics. As time passed, however, it has grown in stature, whereas those other albums have merely held their own. Today, Rock 'n' Roll sounds fresher than the rock & roll that inspired it in the first place. Imagine that. - AMG

Side 1.

1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. Stand By Me
3. Rip It Up [Medley]
4. You Can't Catch Me
5. Ain't That A Shame
6. Do You Want To Dance
7. Sweet Little Sixteen

Side 2

8. Slippin' And Slidin'
9. Peggy Sue
10. Bring It On Home To Me [Medley]
11. Bony Moronie
12. Ya Ya
13. Just Because

Line Up:

John Lennon: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Jose Feliciano, Steve Cropper, Jesse Ed Davis, Peter Jameson, Eddie Mottau: Guitar
Leon Russell, Kenny Ascher: Keyboards
Jim Keltner: Drums
Bobby Keys, Nino Tempo: Saxophone
Hal Blaine: Drums
Arthur Jenkins: Percussion
Dennis Morouse, Frank Vicari: Horn
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Produced by Phil Spector