John Lennon - John Lennon Anthology (Box Set) (1998)

John Lennon - John Lennon Anthology (Box Set) (1998)

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Disc 1 (Ascot)

"Working Class Hero" – 4:19

"God" – 3:32

"I Found Out" – 3:47

"Hold On" – 0:43

"Isolation" – 3:46

"Love" – 2:43

"Mother" – 3:49

"Remember" – 2:44

"Imagine (take 1)" (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) – 3:21

"'Fortunately'" – 0:19

"Baby Please Don't Go" (Walter Ward) – 4:04

"Oh My Love" (Lennon/Ono) – 2:53

"Jealous Guy" – 4:10

"Maggie Mae" (Trad. Arr. John Lennon/Paul McCartney/George Harrison/Richard Starkey) – 0:52

"How Do You Sleep?" – 5:20

From 8-track Imagine sessions (1971)

"God Save Oz" (Lennon/Ono) – 3:27

"Do the Oz" (Lennon/Ono) – 3:08

"I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" – 5:20

"Give Peace a Chance" – 1:52

"Look at Me" – 2:50

"Long Lost John" (Trad Arr. John Lennon) – 2:14

Disc 2 (New York City)

"New York City" – 0:55

"Attica State" (live) (Lennon/Ono) – 4:25

"Imagine" (live) – 3:11

"Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)" – 4:07

"Woman Is the Nigger of the World" (Lennon/Ono) – 0:39

"Geraldo Rivera – One to One Concert" – 0:39

"Woman Is the Nigger of the World" (live) (Lennon/Ono) – 5:14

"It's So Hard" (live) – 3:09

"Come Together" (live) (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 4:19

"Happy Xmas" (Ono/Lennon) – 3:32

"The Luck of the Irish" (live) (Lennon/Ono) – 3:42

"John Sinclair" (live) – 3:43

"The David Frost Show" – 0:52

TV audio (1971)

"Mind Games (I Promise)" – 1:01

"Mind Games (Make Love, Not War)" – 1:14

"One Day (At a Time)" – 3:13

"I Know (I Know)" – 3:13

"I'm the Greatest" – 3:37

"Goodnight Vienna" – 2:42

"Jerry Lewis Telethon" – 1:59

TV audio (1972)

"' A Kiss Is Just a Kiss '" (Herman Hupfeld) – 0:11

"Real Love" – 4:13

Piano demo (1979)

"You Are Here" – 4:55

Disc 3 (The Lost Weekend)

"What You Got" – 1:14

"Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" – 5:38

"Whatever Gets You thru the Night (home)" – 0:38

"Whatever Gets You thru the Night (studio)" – 3:33

"Yesterday (parody)" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 0:33

"Be-Bop-A-Lula" (Gene Vincent/Tex Davis) – 2:52

"Rip It Up/Ready Teddy" (Robert Blackwell/John Marascalco) – 2:32

"Scared" – 5:02

"Steel and Glass" – 4:46

"Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" – 2:58

"Bless You" – 4:15

"Going Down on Love" – 0:54

"Move Over Ms. L" – 3:10

"Ain't She Sweet" (Yellen/Ager) – 0:28

"Slippin' and Slidin'" (Richard Penniman/Bocage/Collins/Smith) – 2:28

"Peggy Sue" (Jerry Allison/Buddy Holly/Norman Petty) – 1:18

"Bring It On Home to Me/Send Me Some Lovin'" (Sam Cooke)/(John Marascalco, Leo Price) – 3:50

"Phil and John 1" – 2:13

"Phil and John 2" – 2:00

"Phil and John 3" – 0:54

"'When in Doubt, Fuck It'" – 0:09

"Be My Baby" (Phil Spector/Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry) – 4:32

"Stranger's Room" – 3:17

"Old Dirt Road" (John Lennon/Harry Nilsson) – 3:54

From 16-track Walls and Bridges sessions (1974)

Disc 4 (Dakota)

"I'm Losing You" – 4:06

"Sean's 'Little Help'" – 0:57

Home recording (1979)

"Serve Yourself" – 3:47

"My Life" – 2:36

"Nobody Told Me" – 3:31

"Life Begins at 40" – 2:23

"I Don't Wanna Face It" – 3:31

"Woman" – 4:01

"Dear Yoko" – 2:33

"Watching the Wheels" – 3:04

"I'm Stepping Out" – 4:19

"Borrowed Time" – 3:57

"The Rishi Kesh Song" – 2:26

"Sean's 'Loud'" – 0:33

"Beautiful Boy" – 4:11

"Mr. Hyde's Gone (Don't Be Afraid)" – 2:41

"Only You" (Ande Rand/Buck Ram) – 3:24

"Grow Old with Me" – 3:18

"Dear John" – 2:13

"The Great Wok" – 3:13

"Mucho Mungo" – 1:24

"Satire 1" – 2:20

"Satire 2" – 4:34

"Satire 3" – 0:45

"Sean's "In the Sky" " – 1:22

"It's Real" – 1:05

John Lennon Anthology is a four-CD box set of home demos, alternative studio outtakes and other previously unreleased material recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career from "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969 up until the 1980 sessions for Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey.

The anthology was divided by its compiler and co-producer, Yoko Ono, into four discs representing four eras in Lennon's solo career: "Ascot", "New York City", "The Lost Weekend" and "Dakota".

John Lennon Anthology reached number 62 in the United Kingdom and number 99 in the United States, where it went gold.

A one-disc distillation of the highlights of the box set was released as Wonsaponatime. Many of the tracks were edited down from their versions on John Lennon Anthology. Wonsaponatime failed to reach the US charts but peaked at number 76 in the UK.