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Shaved Fish
‘A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.’
– Dr. Winston O’Boogie
Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Produced by John Lennon
Track Listing
- 0:58
- 5:04
- 3:22
- 3:22
- 5:05
- 4:39
- 3:04
- 3:05
- 4:13
- 4:47
- 4:15
‘The record company didn’t even want to it out. I put Shaved Fish together of all the singles because if I didn’t do it nobody else would and that was just for my own personal history and for anybody else who cared to buy the record, it wasn’t an effort really to – just to conserve my work because in 40 years I want to look back on it and be able to find it. You know because ‘Cold Turkey’ isn’t a big, big, big hit the record company will probably lose the tape. I realised that some of the singles, the record company would lose the tape, you know, the record would be wiped off the face of the earth by disinterest. They wouldn’t even know where the fucking tape was if you asked them for it now. I had a real trouble finding the tapes to ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘Cold Turkey’ and ‘Woman is the Nigger’ because they weren’t big hits. They were known but they didn’t sell millions of records. I couldn’t even sing ‘Woman is the Nigger’, I was on Dick Cavett. They wouldn’t let me say the word “nigger”. Right. There was a big controversy about ‘Woman is the Nigger’. The stations wouldn’t play it. The people were disgusted and I mean this is only 1971, right.’
– John Lennon, 1980
Transcript excerpt from John & Yoko’s 1980 Interviews with Playboy Magazine
