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Series looking at the creation of some of the greatest albums in music.

Classic Albums celebrates the making of the greatest albums in music. Each film features interviews with band members and producers discussing the creation of the recordings.

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Classic Albums: John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

09/07/2010

BBC Four - Classic Albums, John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

Film that documents the making of John Lennon's 1970 first post-Beatles solo album.

Film that documents the making of John Lennon's 1970 first post-Beatles solo album, which contains some of his most personal and cathartic songs.

Series looking at the creation of classic albums documents the making of John Lennon's 1970 first post-Beatles solo album. Regarded as a classic, it is a fierce, raw, emotionally painful yet beautiful album. It contains some of the most personal and cathartic songs John ever wrote including Mother, Love, Working Class Hero , Isolation and God. 

Drawing from his painful and difficult early life, the songs address the basic issues of death, isolation, anger, religion, class, fear and love. Most of them were written while John and Yoko were undergoing primal therapy with Dr Arthur Janov at his centre in California to deal with the root causes of their pain and neuroses.

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