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 fulfilment of his promise to join the singer in a live show if "Whatever Gets You thru the Night", a song whose commercial potential Lennon had doubted, reached number one. Lennon performed the song along with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There", which he introduced as "a song by an old estranged fiancé of mine called Paul". Lennon co-wrote "Fame", David Bowie's first US number one, and provided guitar and backing vocals for the January 1975 recording. In the same month, Elton John topped the charts with his cover of "Lucy in the Sky