Reviews Praise John & Yoko Live in NYC Concert Film
Reviews are emerging for "Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC," a concert film documenting John Lennon's 1972 Madison Square Garden performances. Critics describe the film as a "sizzling" and "fascinating" star-studded event.
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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film
Footage from John Lennon’s only full-length performances after the Beatles – at Madison Square Garden, for charity, with the Plastic Ono Band – has been edited and restored Last year we saw Kevin Macdonald’s One to One, an archive compilation documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s heady existence in New York in the early 1970s; it took its name from the two charity concerts that they mounted at Madison Square Garden to raise money for children who had been abused at New York’s notoriou...
By Peter Bradshaw
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In his Army jacket and lollipop-blue round sunglasses, with shaggy long sideburns, Lennon gives off a fascinating air of self-involved indifference, which is expressed in the fact that he’s chewing gum for the entire concert. Maybe that was his way of calming his nerves, but the upshot was to give him a disaffected air that’s almost Lou Reed adjacent. He and Yoko and the band perform 15 songs, and in certain ones he’s doggedly sincere, yet he’s also got the Lennon cheek ("Welcome to the rehea...
By Owen Gleiberman
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