Last John Lennon's performances
Through all these great posts I listened to most of songs, I particulary noted John Lennon's performance in 1972 page #15 RT Firefly's great post #291 from the album One To One Benefits Concerts. One person of my family - a late French famous singer - was a big fan of John Lennon.
John Lennon played his last full-scale concerts on August 30, 1972 when John and Yoko performed two benefit concerts called One To One (
One in the afternoon and
One at night) at Madison Square Garden in New York with The Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, made a profit school for retarded children in Willowbrook.
The shows, organized by ABC's journalist Geraldo Rivera also has Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and Sha Na Na. Before the concert, John buy tickets, worth $ 60,000 for the concert and volunteers gives pickers funds. The event raised more than $ 1.5 million to the Willowbrook School. As the crowd entering the stadium, they give them a tambourine and asked to shake it during the concert.
There is a poignancy to this album as it was the only rehearsed and full-length live performances of John’s solo career, and his first – and last – formal live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road.
Yoko produced the album and these two concerts also marked the last time that John and Yoko performed together on stage. Released in February 1986, the album made the US charts on 22 March and peaked shortly after at No.41. Sadly it is no longer available.
On November 28, 1974 (Thanksgiving's Day), Elton John appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden. Lennon was a surprise guest who had performed three songs that special night.