John Lennon Rock

Released on John Lennon's 80th birthday, Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes is designed as a deluxe celebration of Lennon's solo catalog. Housed in a slipcover and bearing a handsome 124-page hardcover book with some nice song-by-song liner notes culled from Lennon interviews, Gimme Some Truth covers rather familiar territory in terms of songs – there are 36 here, starting with "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)" and running through the posthumous hit "Nobody Told Me," hitting nearly all the familiar points along the way (Some Time in New York City, which was bypassed on 2010's Power to the People: The Hits, is represented here by "Angela," a deep cut making its debut on a hits compilation).

Released as part of Apple/EMI’s extensive 2010 John Lennon remasters series, the single-disc Power to the People: The Hits covers familiar territory, but then again, that’s the point of this collection. It’s not designed to dig deep into John's catalog, it’s designed as the latest iteration of the canon, replacing 1997’s Lennon Legend, the last big-budget single-disc compilation. Power to the People is five cuts shorter than Lennon Legend, ditching album cuts “Love” and “Borrowed Time,” swapping the charting singles, “Mother” and “Nobody Told Me,” for the non-charting “Gimme Some Truth” and the actual number 18 hit “Mind Games,” but the end result is the same: Power to the People feels interchangeable with its predecessors because it is another collection with “Imagine,” “Instant Karma,” “Whatever Gets You Through the Night,” “Jealous Guy,” “(Just Like) Starting Over,” “Watching the Wheels,” “Stand by Me,” “#9 Dream,” “Give Peace a Chance,” “Power to the People,” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” The remasters are excellent so if you are in need of a tight Lennon comp this is a good choice but if you already have a hits collection, there’s no reason to replace it.

The Unauthorised Live Recordings … John Lennon - Live Vol. 2 - Live 1960's, 1970's, 1980's.

John Lennon - Mind Games (9 Tracks From The Deluxe Edition) Sampler given away with the August 2024 issue (TAKE 328) of Uncut magazine. Card sleeve. John Lennon’s fourth solo album, 1973’s Mind Games, is to be reissued on 19 July 2024 in a range of formats, with an array of remixed audio, outtakes, and rarities. The physical formats will be a super deluxe and deluxe box sets, and 2xLP and 2xCD versions. All audio is remixed from the original 2″ multitrack session tapes. There will also be stereo, 5.1 surround sound, and Dolby Atmos mixes available digitally.

15 Track CD - Give Peace a Chance! 15 Anti-War and Protest Classics Dedicated to John Lennon, featuring Robert Plant, Richard Thompson, Roy Harper, Steve Earle and more.

This collection from Universal's popular Icon series features 11 of the former Beatle's most well-known solo tracks. Beginning appropriately with "Imagine," the set touches on Lennon's '70s highlights like "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)," "Mind Games," and his enduring singalong single "Give Peace a Chance." Any serious Lennon fan will already have these catalog basics, but the Icon series offers up a very solid highlight reel at a budget price.

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes is a 22-CD bootleg box set, released by Walrus Records. The main goal of this set was to condense everything from the existing Lost Lennon Tapes bootleg series, which had only been released on vinyl, onto CDs…