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1975

Shaved Fish

‘A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.’

– Dr. Winston O’Boogie

Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Produced by John Lennon

Track Listing

  1. 0:58
  2. 5:04
  3. 3:22
  4. 3:22
  5. 5:05
  6. 4:39

  7. 3:04
  8. 3:05
  9. 4:13
  10. 4:47
  11. 4:15
Shaved Fish promotional postcard Illustrated by Michael Bryan

‘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
Shaved Fish album cover detail Illustrated by Michael Bryan
Recorded: UK/USA/Canada, 1969-1974
Released UK: 24 Oct 1975
Released USA: 20 Oct 1975

Sleeve notes

Give Peace A Chance (edited version) (J. Lennon/P. McCartney)
Produced by John & Yoko (Bag)
Recorded in Room 1742, Montreal, Canada

Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
Produced by John & Yoko

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (John Lennon)
Produced by Phil Spector

Power To The People (John Lennon)
Produced by Phil Spector & John & Yoko

Mother (John Lennon)
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector

Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector

Imagine (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector

Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (John Lennon)
Produced & Arranged by John Lennon

Mind Games (John Lennon)
Produced by John Lennon

#9 Dream (John Lennon)
Produced & Arranged by John Lennon

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (Y. Ono/J. Lennon)
Produced & Arranged by John & Yoko and Phil Spector

First Released 20 October 1975

Versions Available

1975 – Original Stereo version: LP, 8 Track & cassette

1987 – First released on CD

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