Live in New York City (John Lennon album) and "Open Your Box", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, to create a pure Lennon album. The video release retained the Lennon complete set-list including Ono's "Sisters, O Sisters" and "Born in a Prison". Portions of the evening performance later saw release on the "John Lennon Anthology". "Live in New York City" reached No. 55 in the UK, and No. 41 in the U.S., and eventually went gold. The concerts documented on "Live in New York City" were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal,
John Lennon second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on, "Notations", but McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book, suggesting that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word". Ono began visiting and telephoning Lennon's home and, when his wife asked him for an explanation, Lennon explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit". While his wife was on holiday in Greece in May 1968, Lennon