John Lennon, Yoko Ono Concert Film ‘Power to the People’ Heads to Cinemas This Spring

Some Time in NYC John Lennon, Yoko Ono Concert Film ‘Power to the People’ Heads to Cinemas This Spring Footage comes from Lennon's only full concert, at Madison Square Garden in 1972, after the Beatles broke up By Kory Grow Kory Grow Contact Kory Grow on X View all posts by Kory Grow March 12, 2026 A concert film of John Lennon and Yoko Ono ‘s monumental 1972 Madison Square Garden concert will hit cinemas this spring. The film, whose official title is longer than its running time, Power to the People: John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band With Elephant’s Memory and Special Guests – Live at the One to One Concert, New York City, 1972 , will hit theaters on April 29 and May 3. Tickets go on sale March 20 via a special website for the film . As every armchair Lennonologist and Onoologist knows, the former Beatle performed only two full concerts, the now legendary benefit gigs to raise a reported $1.5 million for developmentally disabled children, after the Fab Four broke up. Both took place on Aug. 30 with a truncated matinee preceding a full-length, star-studded extravaganza. Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Melanie, and Sha Na Na all made appearances at the gig. The set list included “Give Peace a Chance,” “Imagine,” “Come Together,” and “Instant Karma!” among other hits. Director Steve Gebhardt filmed the concerts, which originally came out as a 40-minute TV special, John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert , and was later re-edited into the 55-minute John Lennon Live in New York City in 1986. Footage from the concerts was later used in Kevin MacDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ recent documentary, One to One: John & Yoko , which focused more on rehearsals and preparation for the concerts. Power to the People , the new version, arrives via filmmaker Simon Hilton, who directed the Oscar-winning War Is Over! animated short , and will be a “multiscreen concert film.” The producers say every frame of film has been physically and digitally cleaned by hand and “restored, r...