John Lennon And Yoko Ono ‘Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)’ Performance Available Now
The video was recorded at the historic ‘One To One’ concert, which is celebrating its 53rd anniversary today.
Fifty-three years ago, on Saturday, August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band headlined the historic One to One Benefit Concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In celebration of this anniversary, a never-before-seen video of John’s solo hit, “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On),” from the afternoon performance has just been shared, launching at the exact time of the original afternoon concert.
The footage has been newly restored and edited, while the audio has been completely remixed and re-engineered from the original analog tapes by the 5x Grammy Award-winning team led by producer Sean Ono Lennon with Paul Hicks, Sam Gannon and Simon Hilton. Using brand new HD multitrack transfers by Rob Stevens, the recording was mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
“Instant Karma! (We All Shine)” is the latest preview of the forthcoming box set, POWER TO THE PEOPLE (The Ultimate Collection), a massive new 12-disc/digital collection exploring and celebrating John and Yoko’s non-violent political activism, influential peace and protest anthems, and the couple’s early years in New York City. It will be released via Capitol/UMe on October 10, one day after John would have been 85. The John Lennon Estate previously released videos for “Come Together” and “Well Well Well,” both from the evening concert. All three videos are from the upcoming concert film, “Power To The People,” which will be released next year.
“The One To One concert was our effort in Grassroots Politics,” writes Yoko Ono Lennon in the Preface of the book in the POWER TO THE PEOPLE box set. “It embodied what John and I strongly believed in – Rock for Peace and Enlightenment. And this one in Madison Square Garden turned out to be the last concert John and I did together.” Held to a combined audience of 40,000 people, the concert featured both afternoon and evening performances, and raised more than $1.5 million (today’s equivalent of $11.5 million) to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The two performances would end up being John’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles.
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