1. Material ranging from Lennon‘s first solo album with the Plastic Ono Band to Imagine and Double Fantasy will be sold by online services like Napster, Rhapsody, MSN Music and Yahoo Music Unlimited, EMI Music said.

2. The brutal confessional of "The Plastic Ono Band" was followed by the perfectly polished "Imagine." There‘s the leftist screeds in "Some Time in New York City," the tired wistfulness on "Walls and Bridges" and the domesticated work he made at the end.

3. Rex and the Plastic Ono Band meld on the deliciously stompy anti–Jesus ditty After Six; Gartside‘s pre–punk passion for folk–rock and traditional English music is audible in his guitar playing; and there is hip–hop in the beats and R&B in the production‘s gloss.

4. He was a true artist insofar as he wasn‘t afraid to fail.‘ It was the mouth full of spite and spleen, though, that undoubtedly led Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis to worship Lennon above all others, Liam once claiming that ‘John Lennon and Johnny Rotten were the only two that mattered in rock and roll‘. Likewise, Primal Scream, a group named in homage to the self–exorcising therapy invented by Arthur Janov that Lennon underwent prior to writing his first, and most rawly confessional, solo album, Plastic Ono Band. ‘As a singer he‘s up there with Jerry Lee (Lewis) and Little Richard in my book,‘ says lead singer Bobby Gillespie, who has just finished recording a version of Lennon‘s scathing ‘Just Gimme Some Truth‘. ‘But there was also this fierce instinctual intelligence at work in his songs, and in his whole attitude.