POWER TO THE PEOPLE

John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s political activism and early New York City era is explored and celebrated in a massive 12-disc Box Set, POWER TO THE PEOPLE – Out on 10th October from Universal Music Group.

Compiled, mixed and curated by the 5 x Grammy Award-winning Ultimate Collection team led by Producer SEAN ONO LENNON, Power To The People features 31 completely remixed live tracks from the One To One Concerts – John Lennon’s only full-length concerts after The Beatles and his final shows with Yoko Ono.

The Super Deluxe Box Set includes 92 Bonus Tracks including NEW YORK CITY – a re-imagined and newly-remixed version of their 1972 politically-charged album, Sometime In New York City, plus unreleased tracks including Demos, Out-Takes, Home Recordings, Studio Jam Sessions, Evolution Mixes, Additional Live Performances and More.

Power To The People is being previewed with the previously unreleased and newly remixed performance of “Come Together” from the One To One Concert evening show, the second of the two performances that day. John & Yoko are backed by the band Elephant’s Memory and drummer Jim Keltner as they play a blistering version of The Beatles’ Abbey Road classic. John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s non-violent political activism, influential peace and protest anthems, and the couple’s early years in New York City – following their migration from the British countryside to the cultural hotbed of Greenwich Village, which reinvigorated them as artists and galvanized them as activists – is explored and celebrated in a massive new 12-disc Box Set and digital collection POWER TO THE PEOPLE (Super Deluxe Edition),releasing via Mercury Studios / UMR (Universal Music Recordings) /Lenono Music on 10 October 2025, to celebrate John Lennon’s 85th birthday.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s non-violent political activism, influential peace and protest anthems, and the couple’s early years in New York City – following their migration from the British countryside to the cultural hotbed of Greenwich Village, which reinvigorated them as artists and galvanized them as activists –is explored and celebrated in a massive new 12-disc Box Set and digital collection POWER TO THE PEOPLE (Super Deluxe Edition), releasing via Mercury Studios / UMR (Universal Music Recordings) /Lenono Music on 10 October 2025, to celebrate John Lennon’s 85th birthday.

Power To The People (Deluxe Edition) is an exhaustive, lovingly compiled 123-track collection, including 90 never-before-heard and previously unreleased tracks, that chronicles John & Yoko’s most political era.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon and his 5x GRAMMY® Award-winning team (including the 2025 GRAMMY Awards for Best Boxed Set Or Special Limited Edition Package for the innovative and elaborate, bar-raising boxed set, John Lennon’s Mind Games – The Ultimate Collection (Super Deluxe Edition)).

The set includes 1972’s historic One To One Concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City – John’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles and also the last concerts John & Yoko ever performed together, plus New York City – a remixed and re-imagined version of their pivotal and polarizing 1972 album, Sometime In New York City, expanded remixes of the Live Jam album containing multiple concert and television performances from 1969-1972, and a wealth of unreleased Demos, Home Recordings, Jam Sessions, Unique Remixes and much more. “That Madison Square Garden gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since The Cavern or even Hamburg,” John Lennon told Alan Carr of the NME in 1972. “It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles used to really get into it.” “The One To One concert was our effort in Grassroots Politics,” writes Yoko Ono Lennon in the Preface to the Power To The People 204-page book, available in the Deluxe Edition. “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.

(L-R) top row: John Ward, Gary Van Scyoc, Wayne “Tex” Gabriel, Jim Keltner, Rick Frank, Adam Ippolito and Stan Bronstein of Elephants Memory. (L-R) bottom row: Phil Spector, John Lennon and Yoko Ono backstage at One To One concert at MSG, NYC . August 30, 1972. © Bob Gruen

“I was completely floored putting this collection together and getting to remix the concerts and hearing all the unreleased material from my parents’ archive for the first time,” said Sean Ono Lennon. “People may not realize how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.

When I was eleven, my mum put out the Live in New York City album and film. So I grew up listening to it. It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert.

For the concerts, Paul Hicks and Simon Hilton and I spent a lot of time finding the best possible balance to keep the feeling of a live show while refining the overall sound as much as possible and Sam Gannon did some meticulous and miraculous work with audio restoration. I won’t disclose all our techniques but there was some ‘movie magic’ required, and I think in the and, the shows sound better than ever.” POWER TO THE PEOPLE (The Ultimate Collection) Deluxe Edition comprises 9 CDs and 3 Blu-Ray audio discs packaged in a bespoke 10-inch slipcase with silver foil titling and a lenticular cover of John & Yoko’s faces that when layered on top of each other presents a dynamic 3D effect.

It is accompanied by an illuminating 204-page deeply-researched hardback book designed and edited by Simon Hilton featuring an oral history about all the included music through the words of John & Yoko and those involved, sourced from both archival and new interviews.

The book is illustrated with unseen photos, lyrics, drawings, tape boxes and memorabilia. Additionally, the set includes a newspaper print poster, sticker sheets and a VIP envelope containing replica concert tickets plus backstage and aftershow passes that have all been uniquely reproduced with textured, archival materials. The centerpiece of POWER TO THE PEOPLE is the One To One Concerts, with the afternoon and evening performances released together for the first time.

The concerts raised more than $1.5 million (2025 equivalent of $11.5 million) to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Produced by SEAN ONO LENNON, all the tracks have been completely remixed and re-engineered from the original multitrack analog tapes by Paul Hicks and Sam Gannon, using brand new HD transfers by Rob Stevens with the stereo mixes mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

The concerts are available separately as both “Afternoon” and “Evening” shows and also as a single “Hybrid” show, which brings together the best performances from both shows.

The concerts are available in stereo on the CDs and in HD Stereo and immersive 5.1 HD Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos mixes on the Blu-ray audio discs.

Previously only old mixes of select performances had been available on the long out-of-print 1986 posthumous live album, Live In New York City. Excerpts from the concerts were featured as part of the new critically acclaimed documentary, One To One: John & Yoko directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards and Executive Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, which was in theaters earlier this year, is currently available for rent and download, and will be streaming on HBO Max this fall.

The films of the remixed, restored and re-edited concerts are due for release from Mercury Studios next year as Power To The People directed by Simon Hilton, produced by Peter Worsley and edited by Ben Wainwright-Pierce.