Newly, radically reimagined remixes, created from John Lennon’s classic song, Mind Games. These 9 Meditation Mixes create their own space while maintaining firm, authentic roots in John Lennon’s original recording of the song. Each of them have been radically altered, slowed down and extended, ranging from 5 to 10 to 0ver 33 minutes, allowing for the musical soundtrack to wash over the listener and provide a relaxing, immersive, deep listening and meditative experience. Four of these tracks are presented as Binaural versions that each focus on different types of brain waves: Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta. Named ‘Mind’, ‘Space’, ‘Spirit’ and ‘Love’, these tracks utilise the effect created when the ears hear left and right frequencies which combine to be perceived as a new frequency that can activate different brain patterns for scientifically proven therapeutic effects.

Of the original song, Mind Games, Yoko Ono Lennon said: “John was trying to convey the message that we all play mind games. But if we can play mind games, why not make a positive future with it – to be a positive mind game?”

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed and engineered by Sam Gannon with additional recording engineered by Scott Holingsworth, the song will now bring a new positive impact in the realm of meditation and mindfulness.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 Side A
Mind Games Meditation Mix - MIND (Binaural Gamma Waves 100Hz) (10:02)
Mind Games Meditation Mix - MAGIC (10:58)

LP1 Side B
Mind Games Meditation Mix - SPACE (8Hz Theta Binaural) (5:42)
Mind Games Meditation Mix - SEED (5:59)
Mind Games Meditation Mix - YES (6:03)

LP2 Side A
Mind Games Meditation Mix - SPIRIT (15Hz Beta Binaural) (5:36)
Mind Games Meditation Mix - LOVE ().5Hz Delta Binaural) (12:32)

LP2 Side B
Mind Games Meditation Mix - SURRENDER (23:41)

LP3 Side A
Mind Games Meditation Mix - PEACE (23:55)

LP3 Side B (ALL TRACKS 1.8 SECONDS)
MANTRA 1 (0:018)
MANTRA 2 (0:018)
MANTRA 3 (0:018)
MANTRA 4 (0:018)
MANTRA 5 (0:018)
MANTRA 6 (0:018)
MANTAR 7 (0:018)
MANTRA 8 (0:018)
MANTRA 9 (0:018)

Continuing The Ultimate Collection series of John Lennon album remixes for 2024.
The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music Recordings present:
JOHN LENNON - MIND GAMES - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION

2 LP
Featuring Mind Games - The Ultimate Mixes and The Out-takes – 24 tracks on 180mg vinyl; plus an 8-page booklet of photos and artwork; a reproduction of the original 1973 triptych marketing poster; postcard sized reproductions of 1973 advert artworks and an individually numbered Citizen of Nutopia ID Card.
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, Mixed and Engineered by Triple GRAMMY-Award winner Paul Hicks, Additional Engineering by Sam Gannon, Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

2CD
Featuring Mind Games – The Ultimate Mixes and The Out-takes – 24 tracks on 2 CDs; plus a 20 page booklet of photos and artworks; a reproduction of the original 1973 triptych marketing poster; postcard sized reproductions of 1973 advert artworks and an individually numbered Citizen of Nutopia ID Card.
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, Mixed and Engineered by Triple GRAMMY-Award winner Paul Hicks, Additional Engineering by Sam Gannon, Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

6 CD/2 Blu Ray Deluxe Box Set
A Limited Edition 10-inch square Box Set including 6 CDs, 2 HD Audio Blu-Rays, a 128-page hardback book; a reproduction of the original 1973 triptych marketing poster; postcard sized reproductions of 1973 advert artworks and an individually numbered Citizen of Nutopia ID Card.

6 CDs of The Ultimate Mixes, Elemental Mixes, Elements Mixes, Evolution Documentary, Out-takes and Raw Studio Mixes.
2 Audio Blu-Rays include High Definition 24-192 Stereo, 24-192 5.1 Surround, and Dolby Atmos versions of all of the above, plus the 2024 Remastered ‘Mind Games’ music video and a ‘You Are Here’ (additional out-take) tape boxes music video.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon. Mixed and Engineered by Triple GRAMMY-Award winner Paul Hicks, Mixed and Engineered by Sam Gannon and Mixed by Rob Stevens. Stereos Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios. 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos mastered by Sam Gannon.

Included is a 128-page glossy, hardback coffee-table book about the writing and recording of the album - in the words of John & Yoko - taken from hundreds of
hours of archive interviews; also featuring brand-new interviews with all the
musicians and engineers, exclusive never-before-seen photographs by Bob Gruen and unseen photos, lyrics, letters, original tape boxes and memorabilia from the John Lennon & Yoko Ono Lennon Archives.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.

As long-standing supporters of the independent record stores all around the globe, the John Lennon Estate are excited and proud to be able to join the fun with this new, exclusive, limited-edition 4 track 12î EP release. As a teaser to the forthcoming ìUltimate Editionî Anniversary release of the ìMind Gamesî album ñ coming later this year in a collection of incredible new formats ñ this extremely limited-edition EP sets the tone for what will be an extraordinary year for the music and legacy of John Lennon.A1. Mind Games (Ultimate Mix A2. Iím The Greatest (Ultimate Mix) featuring George Harrison and Ringo StarrB1. Aisumasen (Iím Sorry) (Ultimate Mix) B2. You Are Here (Out-take, Take 5)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.

As long-standing supporters of the independent record stores all around the globe, the John Lennon Estate are excited and proud to be able to join the fun with this new, exclusive, limited-edition 4 track 12î EP release. As a teaser to the forthcoming ìUltimate Editionî Anniversary release of the ìMind Gamesî album ñ coming later this year in a collection of incredible new formats ñ this extremely limited-edition EP sets the tone for what will be an extraordinary year for the music and legacy of John Lennon.A1. Mind Games (Ultimate Mix A2. Iím The Greatest (Ultimate Mix) featuring George Harrison and Ringo StarrB1. Aisumasen (Iím Sorry) (Ultimate Mix) B2. You Are Here (Out-take, Take 5)

Plastic Ono Band was the debut solo album by John Lennon. Released on December 11th 1970, John and Yoko had started writing and demoing at Abbey Road (EMI Studios) in the summer, with recording sessions during September/October

After the break-up of The Beatles that year, John and Yoko embarked on a period of self-reflection and experimentation, with the results that the songs and sessions for Plastic Ono Band were heavily influenced by his immersion in Arthur Janov’s primal therapy. John was able to find emotional depth and honesty within himself that few artists had ever done before, with John saying to Rolling Stone “now I write all about me and that’s why I like it. It’s me.” . The result is perhaps the most honest and emotionally raw album that anyone has ever released, let alone someone who was one of the four most famous musicians on the planet. With a small core band comprised of just Ringo Starr on drums and old friend Klaus Voorman on bass, co-produced by Phil Spector, the album peaked at 8 in the UK charts and 6 in the USA. It has come to be regarded by many as John’s finest solo work and has continued to grow in stature and reverence and has often featured in various Best Of lists through the years since. 

Released on the same day was Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band album, the couple regarding the release as a pair of albums rather than two entirely separate projects, albeit of course it not achieving the same sort of coverage or chart success as John’s.

Coming as this does hot on the heels of last year’s much loved and well-reviewed “Gimme Some Truth” set and “Imagine” before that, the audio has been completely remixed from the original studio tapes as part of the ongoing John Lennon Ultimate Mix series. The aim for this mix process is to achieve three things: to remain faithful and respectful to the original recordings; to ensure that the sound is sonically clearer overall and to increase the clarity of John’s vocals. As Yoko says, “it’s about John” and this new mix shows that it is his voice that brings the biggest emotional impact of the album.

TRACK LISTING

2LP
Side A: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
Mother
Hold On
I Found Out
Working Class Hero
Isolation

Side B: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
Remember
Love
Well Well Well
Look At Me
God
My Mummy’s Dead

Side C: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
Mother / Take 61
Hold On / Take 2
I Found Out / Take 1
Working Class Hero / Take 1
Isolation / Take 23

Side D: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
Remember / Rehearsal 1
Love / Take 8
Well Well Well / Take 2
Look At Me / Take 2
God / Take 27
My Mummy’s Dead / Take 2

Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Wedding Album’ was the couple’s third experimental album length record and one of the most remarkable of the duo’s testaments to an intense romantic and artistic partnership that would last fourteen years, until Lennon’s tragic passing in 1980.

On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko were married in a civil service in Gibraltar. To celebrate the event, in lieu of a conventional honeymoon, the newlyweds spent a week in bed at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, inviting members of the press into their room for interviews and photo sessions and using their fame and the publicity generated by their ‘Bed-in’ to call attention to their campaign for world peace.

With ‘Wedding Album’, John and Yoko created an enduring snapshot of a vibrant pop-cultural moment, with the hostilities of the Vietnam War as its bracing backdrop. It captures the humour, earnestness, and spontaneity that marked the early years of the ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’ era.

‘Wedding Album’’s innovative, original packaging, created by graphic designer John Kosh, included a box filled with souvenirs of John and Yoko’s nuptials: photographs, a copy of the couple’s marriage certificate, both Lennon’s and Ono’s drawings, a picture of a slice of wedding cake and more. Now, with a faithful recreation of ‘Wedding Album’ on special edition white vinyl LP, as well as compact disc, Secretly Canadian are making one of the most unusual and emblematic recordings of the Sixties available again - fifty years after John and Yoko were married - to mark the Golden Wedding anniversary of two of the 20th Century’s most emblematic cultural figures.

TRACK LISTING

John & Yoko
Amsterdam

The sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It’s when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of “Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.”

TRACK LISTING

Cambridge 1969
No Bed For Beatle John
Baby’s Heartbeat
Two Minutes Silence
Radio Play

Remastered from the original analogue masters in 2010, by Yoko Ono and a team of engineers led by Allan Rouse at Abbey Road Studios in London and by George Marino at Avatar Studios in New York. This LP has been newly cut to vinyl from those 96k digital files. Comes as an authentic reproduction of its UK original, in its sound and visual presentation.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Superb second solo album, produced by Phil Spector.

TRACK LISTING

1. Imagine
2. Crippled Inside
3. Jealous Guy - John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band, The Flux Fiddlers
4. It's So Hard
5. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama
6. Gimme Some Truth
7. Oh My Love
8. How Do You Sleep?
9. How?
10. Oh Yoko!

John recently supported Paul Heaton and Richard Hawley and opens Alan McGee’s new 359 club night in Liverpool on 6th September. He will support The Enemy and Reverend & The Makers at the Doncaster Dome on 6th November, as well as playing shows with Alabama 3.• North South Divide is supported by a full press, radio and online marketing campaign.

This debut album will be preceded by the release of ‘North South Divide’ – the single – as both a download and limited 7” single in late September.

Clearly indebted to early Dylan, John’s influences also include Donovan, Paul Weller, Marc Bolan, Johnny Cash and Jake Bugg.

“An amazing talent for such a young kid!” Alan McGee

“Who is this kid doing Dylan better than Dylan?” Courtney Love

“John is a real talent, I'd happily take him on tour with me in the future. The real deal." Richard Hawley

TRACK LISTING

1. 55 Blues
2. North-South Divide
3. Long Long Way
4. The Ballad Of A Blue Poet
5. It Never Rains
6. Rivers Of Blood
7. The Ballad Of Mr Henderson
8. Colour Of The Sun
9. Slipping Away
10. Short Sharp Shock
11. White Rose
12. The Strand

Says Yoko: 'In this very special year which would have seen my husband and life partner reach the age of 70, I hope that this remastering/reissue programme will help bring his incredible music to a whole new audience. By remastering almost 150 songs spanning 8 of his most brilliant albums, I hope also that those who are already familiar with his work will find renewed inspiration from his incredible gifts as a songwriter, musician and vocalist and from his power as a commentator on the human condition'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Imagine (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Crippled Inside (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Jealous Guy (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. It's So Hard (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. Gimme Some Truth (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. Oh My Love (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. How Do You Sleep? (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. How? (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. Oh Yoko! (2010 Digital Remaster)