McCartney Times

When The Beatles broke the hearts of many and announced their split in 1970, it wasn’t long before John Lennon was already back in the studio with his new wife, Japanese artist Yoko Ono, recording what would eventually become their debut collaborative album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. While his former bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr continued to create the pop-friendly chart-topping hits that made up so much of their existing discography, it was predictably Lennon, a noted individualist and iconoclast, who went in a different direction with Ono by his side as he did.Though it was initially met with a mixed critical response, it grew in reputation to become lauded as a classic in the discography of both Lennon and Ono, a redemptive arc not dissimilar to the one punk music would have within a few short years. Specifically, a track like the lead single ‘Mother’ was an intensely raw piece of music, and its influence can still be felt today with bands like Idles.

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