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
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