Throughout the night, Sean Lennon was an able, amiable, and accomplished bandleader, a versatile if not virtuosic musician (though it must be acknowledged that he was sharing the stage with Eric Clapton), and a flattering son.
     The finale was predictable, but happily welcome nonetheless: an ensemble performance of “Give Peace a Chance” for which Sean and Yoko got the entire theater audience to its feet to sing the chorus. Besides being the song for which Yoko Ono is best known worldwide, it is also the very first song ever made under the Plastic Ono Band moniker, recorded by her and Lennon in a Montreal hotel room and released in 1969. It gave the evening and, one senses, the deeper history of Yoko Ono, a feeling of completion.

Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band – Waiting for the D Train

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Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band- The Sun is Down

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Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band- I’m going away smiling

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