Today, on her 86th birthday, Yoko Ono has announced a reissue of Wedding Album, her 1969 collaborative LP with John Lennon. It’s due out on March 22 via Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music. The release date falls fifty years after John and Yoko’s marriage, which took place on March 20, 1969 in Gibraltar. It’s part of the labels’ ongoing Yoko Ono Reissue Project, a series launched in 2016 that aims to remaster and reissue all eleven of Ono’s recorded works.
Originally released in 1969, Wedding Album marked the couple’s third collaborative LP, and came in a box filled with mementos from John and Yoko’s nuptials, including photographs, drawings by Lennon and Ono, a copy of their marriage certificate, a picture of a piece of wedding cake, and more. Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music have recreated these details, and will reissue the LP in limited-edition white vinyl, CD, and digital formats. You can pre-order it here.
Ono’s most recent album, Warzone, arrived last October. In 2016, Secretly Canadian and Chimera reissued three Yoko Ono LPs: 1968’s Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, 1969’s Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions, and 1970’s Plastic Ono Band. The following year, the labels gave 1971’s Fly, 1973’s Approximately Infinite Universe, and 1973’s Feeling the Space the reissue treatment.
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