SCHENECTADY — This week, Proctors in Schenectady will be screening a newly restored, re-edited, and remixed multiscreen concert film that features a 1972 performance by John Lennon.
The film, titled “Power to the People: John & Yoko in NYC,” was shown on Tuesday and will be screened again on Thursday at 7 p.m. It highlights two concerts — an afternoon and an evening show — that were headlined by John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 30, 1972. These were the final full-scale public performances by Lennon.
Accompanied by the seven-member Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory, Lennon and Ono organized the live benefit for the students of Willowbrook School in New York City. This school for children with mental disabilities came into the national limelight after Geraldo Rivera reported on the abusive conditions at the state-run institution.
The 2026 multiscreen concert film features Lennon’s “New York City,” “Instant Karma!,” “Imagine,” “Mother,” and “Give Peace a Chance,” as well as performances of “Come Together” and “Hound Dog.” Other artists who performed at the shows included Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Melanie, and Sha Na Na.
Three rehearsals were held before the live events. Lennon’s evening performance was first aired on U.S. television in December 1972.
In a 1972 interview with New Musical Express, Lennon said, “That Madison Square Gardens gig was the best music I enjoyed playing since the Cavern or even Hamburg. It was just the same kind of feeling when The Beatles used to really get into it.”
Lennon’s “One to One” charity concerts at Madison Square Garden were inspired by George Harrison’s multi-artist staging of his two benefit concerts for Bangladesh at the same venue, which were organized to help refugees facing starvation. Lennon and Ono moved to New York City in 1971, living in a Greenwich Village townhouse on Bank Street, not far from the Bank Street apartment where Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in early 1979. In 1973, Lennon and Ono moved uptown to The Dakota on Central Park West, where Lennon was tragically shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980.
Love this! Can’t wait to see Lennon’s concert film.
Agree: So excited to see this piece of music history on the big screen!
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