Welcome to Everything is Real, a podcast about Yoko Ono.

Everybody thinks they know Yoko Ono, but how much do we really know?

My name is Stephen Cockcroft.

My name is Jason Carty.

And we are live on a cloud between Belfast and Dublin.

Today, we're going to talk about plastic ono band.

But this album is Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.

Unfairly dismissed as the companion piece to John Lennon's album of the same name,

but obviously a much superior product.

I think you'd agree with that.

I think it's a great record.

And I think I have certainly revised my feelings about Yoko Ono in the last 10 years

compared to how I listened to Yoko Ono as a teenager.

And I like to think I've had some small part in that. You've been you've been very very specific about you know listen to mind

train. It's probably one of the first starting points. Mind train is better than anything John ever did in his solo career mind train is great and

you know what's interesting about yoko is you know you kind of grow up with a certain perspective on yoko

and you know going back to her in my later years but you know if you're a chin stroking mojo reader who's got any kind of love

for Crout Rock, and that's a, that's a phrase I hate, Crout Rock. But, you know, if you like any of

that music, you know, can in particular and some of the other favorites, you got to love Yoko. There's

some amazing music there. And it does run, you know, from the very experimental

stuff through the, you know, Plastikona band stuff into the very melodic stuff in the mid-70s.

Yoko's great. There's loads to explore there. She is. And I mean, it is a bit of a sort of hobby

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