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 The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership yielded eight of its fourteen tracks. With a few exceptions, one being the album title itself, Lennon had yet to bring his love of wordplay to bear on his song lyrics, saying: "We were just writing songs ... pop songs with no more thought of them than that—to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant". In a 1987 interview, McCartney said that the other Beatles idolised John: "He was like our own little Elvis ... We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the