More John Lennon reissues coming in 2002!

[Brad]

John may be gone, but his music is still just as relevant as ever. And in the past five years, we've been treated with plenty of new John releases.

In 1997, a new compilation was released to replace the older, less thourough ones. Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon contains 20 tracks spanning John's entire solo career.

1998 saw the release of The John Lennon Anthology a four-disc boxed set of outtakes and demos. Wonsaponatime, a condensed version of the set, was released the same day.

Yoko Ono began re-releasing her husband's albums beginning in 2000. April saw the issue of a remixed and remastered version of John's landmark 1971 album, Imagine. The same day, the documentary film Gimme Some Truth: The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine Album was released on DVD.

On October 9, 2000, John's 60th birthday, a remixed and remastered edition of John's first post-Beatles album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released, as well as a remastered Double Fantasy, the last album of John's life.

In October of 2001, John's posthumous album, 1984's Milk And Honey, was released in a remastered form, having been out-of-print for over ten years.

My point, and I don't mean to sound like a commercial for Capitol Records, is that there's more coming. In a February, 2002 interview with Jody Denberg, Yoko Ono commented on future reissues of John's work.

This is great news. Now if The Beatles' albums could undergo a remastering process, too...

You may say I'm a dreamer.

Jody Denberg: Last October, October 23rd, I think it was, Milk And Honey was re-released. And bonus tracks, re-mastered sound, and additional artwork The fourth of John's albums that you gave this treatment to. Are there plans for Mind Games and Walls And Bridges to receive a similar treatment?

Yoko Ono: Well, I'm going to London in March. I think I'm leaving here like 8th or 9th or something like that. And spending a week to do some work in Abbey Road Studios. And they've already booked it for me. And I had totally forgotten about it. But about a week ago, they said, "Remember you're coming in March, and we already reserved that studio." "Oh, okay."

JD: So when you're at Abbey Road, do you think you will be working on Walls And Bridges and Mind Games, or at least looking at them for re-issue?

YO: Yeah, I think it's going to be Walls And Bridges and Mind Games. I don't know. Probably the first one is going to be Mind Games, I think, yeah.