John Lennon played exactly two full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles. More than fifty years later, they are finally getting the film they deserve.
To mark Lennon’s birthday on October 9, Sean Ono Lennon, Mercury Studios and Universal Music Group announced Blu-ray film editions of “Power to the People,” the multiscreen concert film of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s One to One shows at Madison Square Garden in 1972. A four-disc deluxe box set, pairing the film with the award-winning documentary “One to One: John & Yoko,” arrives April 9, 2027, with pre-orders open now.
The original concerts, performed with Elephant’s Memory and special guests before a combined audience of 40,000, raised over $1.5 million — about $11.5 million in today’s money — for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They remain the only complete concerts Lennon ever performed as a solo artist.
The new edition has been newly restored, re-edited and remixed. The restoration took more than twenty years: vintage film negative trims were hand-cleaned, rejoined and retransferred before being completely reordered and re-synced into the multiscreen presentation. Sean Ono Lennon produced the music, working with the family’s Grammy-winning audio team.
For Beatles historians, the One to One shows have always been tantalising — famous, bootlegged, but never properly seen. Next spring, fans will finally watch them the way the sold-out Garden did: two nights when John Lennon stepped back onto a concert stage, and briefly, completely owned it.
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