Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon explained

Lennon Legend:
The Very Best of John Lennon
Type:greatest
Artist:John Lennon
Cover:LennonLegendalbumcover.jpg
Recorded:June 1969 – Late 1980
Genre:Rock
Length:77:39
Label:Parlophone
Producer:John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Jack Douglas
Prev Title:Lennon
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:John Lennon Anthology
Next Year:1998

Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon is the third official compilation album of John Lennon's solo career, coming after 1975's Shaved Fish and 1982's The John Lennon Collection. Because neither collection spanned Lennon's releases up to and including 1984's Milk and Honey, Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon – considered the definitive Lennon retrospective – was compiled. It was released in the UK in 1997 through Parlophone and early 1998 in the US by EMI Records.

Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon peaked at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and certified 2× Platinum by the BPI in May 1998. The album has also certified Platinum in the US and Canada as of December 2008. In the history of Japanese Oricon chart, Lennon Legend has been one of the longest charting albums that failed to reach top 40, selling more than 190,000 copies up to late 2006.

The album re-entered the UK Chart on 18 June 2007, almost ten years after its release, at number 30. The album also appeared in a commercial for Apple's iPod Touch. A DVD with the same name was also released in 2003 as a series of remastered, remixed & new music videos with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound audio mixes.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John Lennon, except where noted.

  1. "Imagine" – 3:02
  2. "Instant Karma!" – 3:20
  3. "Mother" * – 3:53
  4. "Jealous Guy" – 4:14
  5. "Power to the People" – 3:17
  6. "Cold Turkey" – 5:01
  7. "Love" – 3:23
  8. "Mind Games" – 4:11
  9. "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" – 3:19
  10. "
    1. 9 Dream
    " – 4:46
  11. "Stand By Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:27
  12. "(Just Like) Starting Over" – 3:55
  13. "Woman" – 3:26
  14. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" – 4:00
  15. "Watching the Wheels" – 3:31
  16. "Nobody Told Me" – 3:33
  17. "Borrowed Time" – 4:30
  18. "Working Class Hero" – 3:49
  19. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (Yoko Ono, John Lennon) – 3:33
  20. "Give Peace a Chance" – 4:52

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (1997)Position
Australian Albums Chart[1] 37
Austrian Albums Chart[2] 5
Belgian Albums Chart(Flanders)[3] 94
Belgian Albums Chart(Wallonia)[4] 48
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[5] 86
Dutch Albums Chart[6] 85
Finnish Albums Chart[7] 22
French SNEP Compipation Albums Chart[8] 7
German Albums Chart[9] 11
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[10] 46
Mexican Albums Chart[11] 62
New Zealand Albums Chart[12] 21
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[13] 39
Swedish Albums Chart[14] 28
Swiss Albums Chart[15] 13
UK Albums Chart[16] 4
US Billboard 200[17] 65
US Catalog Albums8

Certifications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  2. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . Austrian Charts . Hung Medien . de . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  3. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . nl . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  4. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . fr . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  5. Top Albums/CDs – Volume 66, No. 15. RPM. PHP. 15 December 1997. 18 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140421051023/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.3418&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5. 21 April 2014. dead.
  6. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . Dutch Charts . Hung Medien . nl . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  7. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . Finnish Charts . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  8. Web site: Les "Charts Runs" de chaque Album Classé . InfoDisc . fr . PHP . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820092500/http://www.infodisc.fr/Albums_ChartRun.php . 20 August 2008 . Find "John LENNON" on the drop-down menu to see results.
  9. Web site: Lennon Legend / Lennon, John / Longplay . offiziellecharts.de . . de . 19 April 2023 .
  10. Web site: レノン・レジェンド～ザ・ヴェリー・ベスト・オブ・ジョン・レノン／ジョン・レノン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック. Highest position and charting weeks of Lennon Legend by John Lennon. ja. oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. 18 December 2013.
  11. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . Mexican Charts . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120404082854/http://mexicancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=John+Lennon&titel=Lennon+Legend+-+The+Very+Best+Of+John+Lennon&cat=a . 4 April 2012 . dead .
  12. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  13. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  14. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  15. Web site: John Lennon – Lennon Legend – The Very Best of John Lennon (Album) . . Hung Medien . ASP . 2 August 2011.
  16. Web site: John Lennon > Artists > Official Charts. UK Albums Chart. 18 December 2013.
  17. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=john lennon|chart=all}} ''Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon'' – John Lennon ]. Billboard . 2 August 2011.
  18. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. de . GfK Entertainment. 8 September 2016.

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