{"product_id":"yoko-ono-season-of-glass","title":"Yoko Ono - Season of Glass (Strictly Canadian)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTo mark the 45th anniversary of its release, Ono’s seminal 1981 album Season of Glass has been released on vinyl for the first time in more than forty-five years, with expanded and enhanced artwork. Hit single “Walking on Thin Ice” is now available to stream everywhere for the first time. One of Pitchfork’s Top 200 albums of the 1980s, Season of Glass was released in June 1981, just seven months after the senseless murder of Ono’s husband and creative partner, John Lennon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFull of songs about love, loss, anger and fear, the album reflected Ono’s experience in stark detail, creating almost a companion piece to Ono and Lennon’s 1970 Plastic Ono Band “primal scream” albums. “Season of Glass was really just being me, I suppose,” Ono told Newsweek in 1982. “Sort of, it was like a primal scream in a way; you know, something happened in my life, and I just had to say it. And I think it was therapeutic for me more than anything else. And I was pretty honest, I suppose.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOno’s fifth studio album, Season of Glass was also the artist’s most commercially successful to date, cracking the Top 50 on Billboard’s Album Chart, but it was not without controversy. The album’s cover was a photograph of Lennon’s blood-soaked glasses, just as they were returned to Ono from Roosevelt Hospital after his murder. Though David Geffen, the head of Geffen Records, who had released Ono and Lennon’s Double Fantasy in November 1980, and released the original version of Season of Glass, implored Ono to change the cover, Ono stood her ground. “The record company called me and said the record shops would not stock the record unless I changed the cover,” Ono wrote in the liner notes to ONOBOX. “I didn’t understand it. Why? They said it was in bad taste. I felt like a person soaked in blood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ecoming into a living room full of people and reporting that my husband was dead, his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage – and people looking at me saying it was in bad taste to show the glasses to them.” “I’m not changing the cover,” Ono recalled telling Geffen. “This is what John is now.” Backed by the same band that had played on Double Fantasy, the sound of Season of Glass sits in alignment next to that album, which at the time was already considered an artistic triumph for Ono, who was inspiring young artists like the B-52s and Sonic Youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the years since its release, the honest, loving, sometimes harrowing nature of the songs on Season of Glass have meant that it has only gained in stature. Now universally embraced as a powerful artistic statement about grief and loss, it is considered a landmark release, and among Ono’s best works, a fully realised artistic statement. Ultimately, Season of Glass is a stunning, cathartic listen. Still, Ono has always insisted there’s one thing the album is not: healing. “What healing? That’s another thing most people don’t know, but the widows of the world will know,” she told the Los Angeles Times nearly a decade after the album’s release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“Losing a husband is something you can’t shake. It’s not just a feeling of missing him. It’s something more that could never heal. His loss will always stay.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracklist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGoodbye Sadness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMindweaver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEven When You're Far Away\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNobody Sees Me Like You Do\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTurn of the Wheel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDogtown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSilver Horse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eI Don't Know Why\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eExtension 33\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNo, No, No\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWill You Touch Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe Gets Down on Her Knees\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eToyboat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMother of the Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWalking on Thin Ice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eI Don’t Know Why (demo)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDogtown (alternate version)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"OLE_LINK1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca name=\"OLE_LINK2\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eVersion: Black Vinyl LP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eReleased: 17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e July 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Number: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eSC286LP 0656605028613 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: New Sealed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sunflower Records","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58583728226629,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8268\/6533\/files\/yokoonoseasonofglass1.jpg?v=1784193963","url":"https:\/\/sunflowerrecords.co.uk\/products\/yoko-ono-season-of-glass","provider":"Sunflower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}