2010年時のオノ・ヨーコ監修、アビーロードのエンジニアAllan RouseとニューヨークのAvator StudiosのGeorge Marinoによるリマスター音源を使用。今回のLP盤用にアビーロードにてSean Mageeが新たににカッティングを行い、ドイツのOptimal MediaがLPを製造。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2015/06/26)
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.104) - Ranked #22 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Lennon's first proper solo album and rock & roll's most self-revelatory recording..."
Rolling Stone (6/10/99, p.126) - 5 Stars (out of 5) - "...every note reverberates....Lennon's singing takes on an expressive specificity that anyone in search of the century's great vocal performances would be foolish to overlook...."
Q (6/00, p.66) - Ranked #62 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...Suddenly, you can see why Lennon was dissatisfied with the Abbey Road sessions..."
Q (12/00, pp.140-1) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...There is no better solo Lennon or solo Beatles album..."
Uncut (p.108) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he most profound and perfectly realised confessional album that rock'n'roll has produced."
CMJ (5/24/99, p.32) - "...an exercise in artistic expression through varying levels of mood and rage..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/00, p.92) - "...Exactly what was on his mind....It was, and remains, an extraordinary album. No rock singer could sound as simultaneously warm and as acerbic as Lennon..."
NME (Magazine) (10/21/00, p.43) - 8 out of 10 - "...It's his starkest and best post-Beatles work....This is a lingering, slow-motion peer into the crater of the man's soul..."
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