Label: Apple Records (Japan), TOCP-70398
Style: Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
Time: 41:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 251 Mb
Charts: UK #8, AUs #8, AUT #5, CAN #70, GER #37, JPN #22, NLD #5, NOR #9, SWE #28, US #12. US: Platinum; UK: Gold.
Shaved Fish contains all of the singles that he had issued up to that point in the United States as a solo artist, with the exception of "Stand by Me", which had been released earlier that year. The only compilation of Lennon's non-Beatles recordings released during his lifetime. It was also Lennon's final album released on Apple Records before it was shut down in 1975, to be revived in the 1990s.
Shaved Fish includes many of Lennon's most popular solo recordings in their original 45 rpm single edits. Five of the songs had not been previously issued on an album: "Cold Turkey", "Instant Karma!", "Power to the People", the holiday single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance". The latter appears in truncated form and opens side one, while an excerpt of a live version of the song closes side two. Eight of these singles made the Top 40 on the Billboard chart, with "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" going to number 1; five made the top ten in the United Kingdom. "Imagine", never previously released as a single in the UK, was issued as such concurrent to the release of this album.
Roy Kohara was the art director of the album, and the illustrations were made by Michael Bryan. The cover is divided into twelve rectangles: one for each of the eleven songs on the LP, and one for the album title, written in Bruce Mikita font (also known as Novel Open). The album title originates from the Japanese food katsuobushi, a kind of dried fish.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaved_Fish)
01. Give Peace A Chance (Edited Version) (00:59)
02. Cold Turkey (05:03)
03. Instant Karma! (03:15)
04. Power To The People (03:06)
05. Mother (05:08)
06. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (04:38)
07. Imagine (03:04)
08. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (03:06)
09. Mind Games (04:12)
10. #9 Dream (04:48)
11. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) / Give Peace A Chance : Reprise (04:16)
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