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“BE-BOP-A-LULA”
“STAND BY ME”
“RIP IT UP” / “READY TEDDY”
“YOU CAN’T CATCH ME”
“AIN’T THAT A SHAME”
“DO YOU WANNA DANCE?”
“SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN”
“SLIPPIN’ AND SLIDIN'”
“PEGGY SUE”
“BRING IT ON HOME TO ME” / “SEND ME SOME LOVIN'”
“BONY MORONIE”
“YA YA”
“JUST BECAUSE”
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(“rock ‘n’ roll” is the 6th studio album by ‘john lennon’)
(released in 1975, it is an album of late 1950s and early 1960s songs as covered by ‘lennon’)
(recording the album was problematic and spanned an entire year: Phil Spector produced sessions in October 1973 at A&M Studios, and Lennon produced sessions in October 1974 at Record Plant Studios (East))
(Lennon was being sued by Morris Levy over copyright infringement of one line in his song “Come Together”)
(as part of an agreement, Lennon had to include three Levy-owned songs on “Rock ‘n’ Roll”)
(Spector disappeared with the session recordings and was subsequently involved in a motor accident, leaving the album’s tracks unrecoverable until the beginning of the Walls and Bridges sessions)
(with Walls and Bridges coming out first, featuring one Levy-owned song, Levy sued Lennon expecting to see Lennon’s Rock ‘n’ Roll album)
(the album was released in February 1975, reaching #6 in both the United Kingdom and the United States, later being certified gold in both countries)
(it was supported by the single “Stand by Me”, which peaked at #20 in the US, and #30 in the UK)
(the cover was taken by Jürgen Vollmer during the Beatles’ stay in ‘hamburg’)
(it was Lennon’s last album until 1980: with no recording contract obligation, he took a hiatus from recording to raise his son ‘sean’)
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