Live in New York City (John Lennon album) Elephant's Memory, who had served as Lennon and Ono's backing band on "Some Time in New York City". Although the material Lennon performed was largely drawn from his three most recent albums of the period ("John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", "Imagine" and "Some Time in New York City"), he also included in the setlist his Beatles hit "Come Together" and paid tribute to Elvis Presley with "Hound Dog" before leading the audience in a singalong of "Give Peace a Chance". "Come Together", originally in the key of D minor, was performed in E minor. Upon its early 1986 release, Ono was
God (John Lennon song) to an end. "If there is a God," Lennon explained, "we're all it." The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows: God (John Lennon song) "God" is a song from John Lennon's first post-Beatles solo album, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band". The album was released on 11 December 1970 in the United States and the United Kingdom. The song was considered controversial upon release, dealing with anti-religious themes. There are three sections in the song: In the first section, John Lennon describes God as "a concept by which we measure our pain". In the second, Lennon lists many