Story

Yoko Ono | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009RL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Story

2. Loneliness

3. Will You Touch Me

4. Dogtown

5. Tomorrow May Never Come

6. Yes, I'm a Witch

7. She Gets Down on Her Knees

8. It Happened

9. Winter Friend

10. Heartburn Stew

11. Hard Times Are Over

12. Medley [#]

13. Extension 33 [#]

14. Now or Never [Live][#]

Editorial Reviews

From the Label

This was a previously unreleased album until onobox.

Yoko Ono: vocals and background vocalsKen Ascher: keyboardsLeon Pendarvis: keyboards (She Gets Down On Her Knees)Gordon Edwards: bassArthur Jenkins: percussionRick Marotta: drumsHugh McCracken: guitarsDavid Spinozza: guitarsHorn Section on I'm A Witch & Heartburn Stew--Michael Brecker: tenor sax; Randy Brecker: trumpet; Lewis Del Gatto: baritone sax, bass clarinet; Alan Rubin: trumpet; George Young: flutes, clarinetBackground vocals: Erin Dickens, Gail Kantor, Louise Messina, Ann E. Sutton (Heartburn Stew, Hard Times Are Over & Tomorrow May Never Come) with Something Different (Tomorrow May Never Come)String section on She Gets Down On Her Knees--Joseth DeChristopher, Peter Eggers, Edward Fox, R. Kenneth Price, Michael Robison, David Thoreau Rose

Produced by Yoko Ono and David SpinozzaPhotography from the personal collection of Yoko OnoIncendiary Bomb Test photographs courtesy of the National Archives.

Product Description

Japanese Pressing to Contain an Exclusive Bonus Track. No Additional Information Available at this Time. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lost album from "The Lost Weekend", February 9, 1999

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This review is from: Story (Audio CD)

In 1974 John & Yoko briefly separated, John moving to L.A., Yoko staying in New York. During this period, John released two LPs, 'Walls & Bridges' and 'Rock and Roll'. Though it appeared at the time that Yoko was not doing anything, in reality she was touring her native Japan and recording this album. The album was shelved after her reconciliation with Lennon.

Many of the albums tracks have been re-recorded and are featured on other albums, and most of the album was featured as disc 6 of the Onobox. This cd release marks the first time the complete album has seen the light of day in over 20 years. Although many tracks were re-recorded later, the highlights of the album seem to lie in the ones that were not.

Of the re-recordings, there are some that faired better in their original forms as released on this album ("Loneliness", "Dogtown"); others were better suited in their new versions ("Will You Touch Me", "Tomorrow May Never Come"); while others are just too different in style to compare to their re-recorded versions ("She Gets Down on Her Knees", "Hard Times Are Over"). The one song that did not change much is "It Happened". In the '81 release of the song, there is a dialog between John & Yoko before the song begins, also Yoko starts the final refrain later than on this original version, but other than that, the song remains the same.

As mentioned earlier, the highlights of the album are in the songs that were never re-recorded. Songs like the eerie "Winter Friend", the lively "Heartburn Stew" and what could have easily been the album's single, "Yes, I'm A Witch". Also noteworthy is the title track, a story of a girl who couldn't speak her mind and a boy who couldn't say what he wanted meeting and falling in love. Definitely autobiographical of the John & Yoko story.

This release features 3 bonus tracks: early home demos of "Extention 33" and "Anatano Te" (later released as "Your Hands"), and a live acapella version of the final refrain from "Now or Never" recorded during her 1986 "Starpeace World Tour". Although this album serves as a placemark in chronicalizing Yoko's music, it is not one of her better bodys of work. Perhaps it was a wise choice to hold off on it's release until later.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice CD, September 14, 2004

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Matthew P. Carroll (Bordentown, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Story (Audio CD)

A great CD. Not Yoko's best as were Feeling The Space and "AIU". The vocals aren't as crisp and clear. But the writing and arrangements are superb, as always with Yoko..