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| Single by Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band | ||||
| A-side | "Power to the People" (UK) (John Lennon) | |||
| Released | 12 March 1971 | |||
| Recorded | January–March 1971[1] | |||
| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | Apple | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
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| Single by Yoko Ono | ||||
| Released | 2001 | |||
| Recorded | February–March 1971, remixed 2001 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
| Producer(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
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"Open Your Box" is a The Plastic Ono Band song by Yoko Ono, released on 12 March 1971 as the B-side of John Lennon's single "Power to the People".[2] Lennon played guitar and produced the song.[3]
In 1971, Ono's risqué lyrics were received in controversy ("box" is slang for vagina). Ono sings, "Open your box, open your trousers, open your sex, open your legs, open open open open open". The record was banned from radio in Britain, and was played on-air only when echo was added to blur the lyrics.[4] Capitol Records, which distributed music by Apple Records in the United States, initially refused to issue the recording, and it was replaced as the B-side by another Ono track, "Touch Me".
"Open Your Box" was remixed and re-released by Orange Factory in 2001.
- ^ Blaney, John (2005). John Lennon: Listen to This Book. Paper Jukebox. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9780954452810.
- ^ IN YOUR MIND – THE INFINITE UNIVERSE OF YOKO ONO
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ucrwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Guyer, Lauree. "Yoko Ono: Open Your Box (The Remixes) - Glide Magazine". Glide Magazine. Glide Publishing LLC. Retrieved 9 August 2011.