John Lennon Signature Box Set: Remastered CDs Out On October 5, 2010

With the huge success (critically and commercially) of The Beatles Remastered Box Sets in 2009, there are high expectations for the new Lennon Signature Box Set which contains all of his solo albums remastered digitally from his original mixes for the 1st time. The box set also contains a disc with all of Lennon’s non-album singles and another disc with previously unreleased material.

While I definitely do not think John Lennon’s solo recordings matched up to the amazing work he did while a part of The Beatles, that is not meant as a slight to his career as a solo artist because he did record a lot of great solo songs. It’s just that The Beatles classic albums are a pretty difficult thing to outdo.

I am hoping that the sound quality of the CDs in the Signature Box are as good as the sound quality of the CDs in The Beatles in Stereo box set last year. I was (and still am) extremely impressed by the job the sound engineers did with those in keeping the analog warmth and much of the dynamics that help make The Beatles songs such classics.

These are the eight John Lennon solo studio albums included in the box set:

1970 – Plastic Ono Band

1971 – Imagine

1972 – Somewhere in New York City

1973 – Mind Games

1974 – Walls and Bridges

1975 – Rock n Roll (covers album)

1980 – Double Fantasy

1984 – Milk and Honey (released after Lennon’s death)

As I already mentioned this box set will also contain a CD with his non-album singles like “Cold Turkey,” “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On),” and “Give Peace A Chance.”

Possibly most interesting to hardcore fans fans who already own all of Lennon’s solo albums (but not digitally remastered, of course) is the disc which features previously unheard recordings of tunes such as “I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier,” “God,” “Serve Yourself,” and “Love.”

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