John Lennon - Anthology

Primary Artist
John Lennon
Album Title
Anthology
Release Date
November 3, 1998 
Time
266:28 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
During the great John Lennon revival of the late '80s, Yoko Ono licensed to have the Westwood One Radio Network air scores of unreleased home recordings and demos as the Lost Lennon Tapes radio show. At the time, there was endless speculation about when highlights would be released, likely as a box set. The proposed set never materialized, yet most of the material was heavily bootlegged, as the producers and Ono must have suspected. Despite the bootlegs, Ono didn't agree to an official collection of unreleased Lennon material until 1998, after The Beatles' Anthology series proved a critical and commercial success. Read More