Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ultimate Mix / Extended)

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  Seven Songs for the Week #129

  Jason Carty

  In January 1972, Paul went to New York to make amends with John and call a truce after 18 months of post-Beatles bad vibes and badmouthing. When Paul's plane touched down back in London, the Bloody Sunday/Bogside Massacre had happened where the British army shot 26 peaceful protesters, killing 13 of them. It's odd that Lennon & McCartney then virtually reunited via mind-meld from each side of the Atlantic, and each of them immediately wrote a song about it. Paul's Give Ireland Back to The Irish became the debut single from Wings (NOT on the upcoming compilation) and was in shops within three weeks. John's Sunday Bloody Sunday would come out a little later in the year on the Some Time In New York City album.

  Some Time in New York City, and unloved album, has been stuck in limbo fort three years when a 2022 reissue was announced and then pulled. The reason was seemingly the opening track, Woman is the N***** of the World. That album reappears in the upcoming Power to the People box as New York City, remixed, resequenced, and with that one song removed. Putting the disappearance of that song to one side, this first taster of the new NYC album is streets ahead of how it has sounded before. They've shortened the intro and removed the saxophone - GOOD!

  The Power to the People box is being sold as an issue of the sole Lennon gigs of his solo career. It's a lot more than that. The box should have been called Power To The People: John & Yoko in New York 1971-1972. In 12 months they left the UK forever, set up in NYC, wrote and record songs about everything they saw, and the gig was the topper.