We're afraid of everyone, afraid of the sun

Thursday music corner: John Winston Ono Lennon (1940-80) released three experimental album collaborations with Yoko Ono in 1968 and 1969, but the John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band album released in December 1970 was his first solo album proper. The album's only single, Mother, was released just after Christmas 1970 and reached number 43 on the US charts and number 12 in Canada. (It didn't chart in the UK). The album was a companion piece to the experimental Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band, released at the same time.

Isolation is the closing track of side A of John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band. Its lyrics explore the vulnerability and uncertainty affecting Lennon as he emerged from the world-straddling fame of the Beatles and attempted to devise a new life with his wife and muse, Yoko Ono.

John Lennon - Isolation (Raw Studio Mix, 1970)

See also:

Music: John Lennon - Watching The Wheels (1981)

Music: Sean Ono Lennon - Isolation (live, 2020)

Music: Julian Lennon - Love Don't Let Me Down (2023)