John Lennon & Yoko Ono's 1972 NYC 'One To One' Concerts Coming To Cinemas Worldwide

 

Trafalgar Releasing will be bringing 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 to the big screen worldwide this spring. The film is produced by and released in partnership with Mercury Studios.

Representing the only full-length concerts John Lennon, with Yoko Ono, performed after leaving The Beatles, Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC is a multiscreen concert film of two massive Madison Square Garden live shows. This is a film restoration 20 years in the making, with every frame physically and digitally cleaned by hand. This definitive version has been newly restored, re-edited and remixed by the Lennons’ award winning team, led by Sean Ono Lennon.

Tickets for Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC go on sale Friday, March 20 —coinciding with John and Yoko’s 57th wedding anniversary. Fans can visit powertothepeoplefilm.com to purchase tickets. Audio will be in 5.1 Surround or Dolby Atmos® at select locations. Visit the official event website now and sign up for the most current information and event updates.

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory and Special Guests performed the One To One concerts on August 30, 1972, to a combined audience of 40,000 people, raising over $1.5M (equivalent to $11.5M in 2026) for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Originally filmed by multi-camera director Steve Gebhardt in 1972, this 2026 version of the concert film is directed by Simon Hilton, edited by Ben Wainwright-Pearce and produced by Peter Worsley and Sean Ono Lennon with a view to creating the film as a multiscreen experience. Music Production is by Sean Ono Lennon; mixed and engineered by Paul Hicks and Sam Gannon. 

The audio multitracks were similarly given the ultimate restoration treatment, having been baked and re-transferred at high resolution by Rob Stevens and then digitally restored and remixed in High Definition 192/24 Stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos. Hits performed include John’s “New York City,” “Instant Karma!,” “Imagine,” and “Mother,” plus Yoko’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko” and “Open Your Box,” plus rousing renditions of “Come Together” and “Hound Dog,” and the encore “Give Peace a Chance” with special guests including Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na, Melanie Safka-Schekeryk and many others.

Sean Ono Lennon says: “It was a concert that had a legendary status in my mind, because it was my dad’s last concert. I remember wanting a Les Paul because he played Les Paul during that show. I feel very grateful I got to work on it because he did plan on touring and he didn’t get to, so all we’ve got is this concert. And I think it is very beautiful because it is so unlike what people were doing at the time. Everybody was getting into slicker and slicker stuff in the early ‘70s, and I think my dad was already kind of pre-empting the arrival of punk. He just wanted to go back to basics and be raw and spontaneous and rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a very cool thing he was doing that was very against the grain. Maybe not everyone realizes how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him. I grew up with a set number of images and audio clips that everyone’s familiar with. So to come across things that I’ve never seen or heard is really deep for me, because it’s almost like getting more time with my dad.”

On October 10, 2025, the day after John’s 85th birthday, Capitol/UMe released Power To The People, a massive 12-disc box set produced by Sean Ono Lennon and his production team, that chronicles and celebrates John & Yoko’s political activism and their early years in New York City. The new film serves as the definitive companion to that collection, arriving at a time of peak anticipation following the box set and the 2025 documentary One To One: John & Yoko, which documented the rehearsals and preparation for the MSG shows.