Label: Apple Records (Japan), TOCP-70398
Style: Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
Time: 41:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 251 Mb
Charts: UK #8, AUs #8, AUT #5, CAN #70, GER #37, JPN #22, NLD #5, NOR #9, SWE #28, US #12. US: Platinum; UK: Gold.
Shaved
Fish contains all of the singles that he had issued up to that point in
the United States as a solo artist, with the exception of "Stand by
Me", which had been released earlier that year. The only compilation of
Lennon's non-Beatles recordings released during his lifetime. It was
also Lennon's final album released on Apple Records before it was shut
down in 1975, to be revived in the 1990s.
Shaved Fish includes many
of Lennon's most popular solo recordings in their original 45 rpm single
edits. Five of the songs had not been previously issued on an album:
"Cold Turkey", "Instant Karma!", "Power to the People", the holiday
single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance". The latter
appears in truncated form and opens side one, while an excerpt of a live
version of the song closes side two. Eight of these singles made the
Top 40 on the Billboard chart, with "Whatever Gets You thru the Night"
going to number 1; five made the top ten in the United Kingdom.
"Imagine", never previously released as a single in the UK, was issued
as such concurrent to the release of this album.
Roy Kohara was the
art director of the album, and the illustrations were made by Michael
Bryan. The cover is divided into twelve rectangles: one for each of the
eleven songs on the LP, and one for the album title, written in Bruce
Mikita font (also known as Novel Open). The album title originates from
the Japanese food katsuobushi, a kind of dried fish.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaved_Fish)
01. Give Peace A Chance (Edited Version) (00:59)
02. Cold Turkey (05:03)
03. Instant Karma! (03:15)
04. Power To The People (03:06)
05. Mother (05:08)
06. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (04:38)
07. Imagine (03:04)
08. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (03:06)
09. Mind Games (04:12)
10. #9 Dream (04:48)
11. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) / Give Peace A Chance : Reprise (04:16)
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