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 one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me". In combination with "A Spaniard in the Works" (1965), "In His Own Write" formed the basis of the stage play "The John Lennon Play: