Fly

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Fly · Yoko Ono made this double album in 1971 together with John Lennon, around the same time as his album Imagine. It was her second album, shortly after the debut Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. She divided the four sides into two kinds of music: songs to dance to, and music to listen to. Lennon brought in musicians such as Jim Keltner and Klaus Voormann.

Mind Train lasts almost seventeen minutes, a conversation between her voice and Lennon's guitar. Mrs. Lennon is the most conventional song, a ballad with Lennon on piano. On side three, Ono plays with self-playing sound machines by the Fluxus musician Joe Jones. The title track takes up almost an entire side: her voice was recorded first, then Lennon added guitar, some of it played backwards. The sleeve was a complete avant-garde package, with a poster and a card for ordering her book Grapefruit. In the American chart the album reached number 199.

Listening

Track list

CD 1

1. 1Midsummer New York3:52Apple Music ↗
2. 2Mindtrain16:53Apple Music ↗
3. 3Mind Holes2:47Apple Music ↗
4. 4Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)4:55Apple Music ↗
5. 5Mrs. Lennon4:10Apple Music ↗
6. 6Hirake3:32Apple Music ↗
7. 7Toilet Piece / Unknown0:31Apple Music ↗
8. 8O’Wind (Body Is the Scar of Your Mind)5:24Apple Music ↗

CD 2

1. 1Airmale10:43Apple Music ↗
2. 2Don’t Count the Waves5:22Apple Music ↗
3. 3You8:59Apple Music ↗
4. 4Fly22:52Apple Music ↗
5. 5Telephone Piece0:30Apple Music ↗
6. 6Between the Takes (Bonus Track)1:58Apple Music ↗
7. 7Will You Touch Me (Bonus Track)2:45Apple Music ↗
8. 8The Path (Bonus Track)5:43Apple Music ↗
9. 9Head Play (Medley: You / Airmale / Fly) [Bonus Track]2:34Apple Music ↗

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