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| label = [[Polygram]] |
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| producer = Yoko Ono |
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| prev_title = [[Season of Glass]] |
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| single2 = [[Never Say Goodbye (Yoko Ono song)|Never Say Goodbye]] |
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'''''It's Alright (I See Rainbows)''''' is the sixth solo album by [[Yoko Ono]], and her second release after the murder of husband [[John Lennon]]. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park. Released in 1982, all songs were written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. It charted at #98 in the US. |
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==Background== |
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The album saw Yoko take her music in a more uplifting direction following 1981's ''Season of Glass'', despite the "bulk" of the album's songs "deal[ing] with her unabated feelings of loss over Lennon."<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |last=Loder |first=Kurt |date=1983-01-20 |title=It's Alright (I See Rainbows) |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/its-alright-i-see-rainbows-100180/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Yoko reflected on the making of the album when writing liner notes for the 1992 boxset ''[[Onobox]]'': |
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{{Blockquote|text=The songs from ''It’s Alright'' were an attempt to do new sounds. I used shotguns for the backbeat. I brought [[Sean Lennon|Sean]]’s toy raygun to the studio to use it as a rhythm track. I was expecting the usual sneer I had gotten from the musicians and engineers whenever I had tried to do anything that was out of the ordinary. Surprisingly, no one was upset this time. It was ’82 and it seemed as though I was finally in sync with the world. |
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In a way, the ''It's Alright'' time was much more difficult for me as a woman, as a person, than when I had made ''Season Of Glass''. Life went on. I had to walk and talk normally, while I knew that somewhere inside me there was a clock that had stopped in ’80.|author=Yoko Ono|source={{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/6364|title=''ONOBOX'' by Yoko Ono|date=23 April 2009 }}}} |
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In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417 Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The 1997 release used newly remixed versions of all songs. Some of the original mixes had a CD release in 1992 on the ''Onobox'' set but the rest remain unreleased on CD to date. |
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==Reception== |
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{{Music ratings |
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| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |
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| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}} |
| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r46037|pure_url=yes}}</ref> |
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| rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' |
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| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=":0" /> |
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| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/120864link |title=Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews |publisher=Rollingstone.com |date=2012-06-12}}</ref> |
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''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' called it Ono's "most commercially accessible musical effort."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Top Album Picks|date=December 25, 1982|accessdate=2023-02-08|page=87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyQEAAAAMBAJ}}</ref> Writing for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Kurt Loder]] noted its "committed and convincing avant-gardism", which produced a "synthesizer-based pop that’s more adventurous than much of the music currently being ground out by Europersons half her age."<ref name=":0" /> |
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'''''It's Alright (I See Rainbows)''''' is the sixth solo album by [[Yoko Ono]], and her second release after the death of husband [[John Lennon]]. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park. This album marks her first foray into [[New wave music|new wave]] sounds and 1980s pop production. It charted at #98 in the US. |
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All songs were written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417 Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The 1997 release used newly remixed versions of all songs. Some of the original mixes had a CD release in 1992 on the ''Onobox'' set but the rest remain unreleased on CD to date. |
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==Track listing== |
==Track listing== |
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| length10 = 3:15 |
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{{Track listing |
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| headline = 1997 CD Reissue<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417 Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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| title1 = [[My Man (Yoko Ono song)|My Man]] |
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| length1 = 3:44 |
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| title2 = [[Never Say Goodbye (Yoko Ono song)|Never Say Goodbye]] |
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| length2 = 4:17 |
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| title3 = Spec of Dust |
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| length3 = 3:32 |
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| title4 = Loneliness |
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| length4 = 3:34 |
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| title5 = Tomorrow May Never Come |
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| length5 = 2:38 |
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| title6 = It's Alright |
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| length6 = 4:34 |
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| title7 = Wake Up |
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| length7 = 3:40 |
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| title8 = Let the Tears Dry |
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| length8 = 3:26 |
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| title9 = Dream Love |
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| length9 = 4:43 |
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| title10 = I See Rainbows |
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| length10 = 2:35 |
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{{Track listing |
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| headline = CD Reissue bonus tracks |
| headline = CD Reissue bonus tracks |
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| title11 = Beautiful Boys |
| title11 = Beautiful Boys |
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| note11 = Demo |
| note11 = <small>Demo</small> |
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| length11 = 2:00 |
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| title12 = [[You're the One (Yoko Ono song)|You're the One]] |
| title12 = [[You're the One (Yoko Ono song)|You're the One]] |
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| note12 = Alternate take |
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| length12 = 4:50 |
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*Pete Cannarozzi – synthesizer |
*Pete Cannarozzi – synthesizer |
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*Gordon Grody, Kurt Yahjihan, [[Carlos Alomar]] – background vocals |
*Gordon Grody, Kurt Yahjihan, [[Carlos Alomar]] – background vocals |
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*[[Elliott Randall]], Steve Love, [[Hugh McCracken]], [[John Lennon]], [[John Tropea]] – guitar |
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*Michael Holmes, [[Paul Shaffer]] – keyboards |
*Michael Holmes, [[Paul Shaffer]] – keyboards |
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*[[Neil Jason]], [[Tony Levin]], Wayne Pedziwiatr – bass guitar |
*[[Neil Jason]], [[Tony Levin]], Wayne Pedziwiatr – bass guitar |
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*Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith – engineer |
*Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith – engineer |
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*[[Bob Gruen]] – photography |
*[[Bob Gruen]] – photography |
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==Charts== |
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!Chart (1982–83) |
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!Peak<br>position |
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|U.S. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' 200 |
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|align=center|98 |
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|align=center|13 |
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== Release history == |
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!scope="row" rowspan="2"|United States |
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|rowspan="2"|2 November 1982<ref name="Onobox"/> |
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|LP |
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|rowspan="7"|[[Polydor]] |
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|PD1-6364<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/732281|title = Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)|website = [[Discogs]]| date=29 November 1982 }}</ref> |
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|Cassette |
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|CT-1-6364<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/5138301|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Cassette)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1982 }}</ref> |
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!scope="row" rowspan="2"|United Kingdom |
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|rowspan="2"|16 December 1982<ref name="Onobox"/> |
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|LP |
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|POLD 5073<ref name="jpgr.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/col_pold5073.html|title=It's Alright (I See Rainbows)}}</ref> |
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|Cassette |
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|POLDC 5073<ref name="jpgr.co.uk"/> |
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!scope="row"|Germany |
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|rowspan="2"|1982 |
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|rowspan="3"|LP |
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|rowspan="2"|2391559<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/2391559de|title=Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)}}</ref> |
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!scope="row"|Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/3376095|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1982 }}</ref> |
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!scope="row"|Japan |
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|January 1983 |
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|28MM 0241<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/6341161|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1983, Vinyl)|website=[[Discogs]]|date=January 1983 }}</ref> |
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!scope="row"|United States |
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|1 July 1997<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/509113/ready-or-not-yoko-ono-albums-to-be-reissued/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218211908/http://www.mtv.com/news/509113/ready-or-not-yoko-ono-albums-to-be-reissued/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 18, 2018|title=Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued|website=[[MTV]]}}</ref> |
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|rowspan="3"|CD |
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|rowspan="3"|[[Rykodisc]] |
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|rowspan="2"|RCD 10422<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1997, CD)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1997 }}</ref> |
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!scope="row"|United Kingdom |
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|26 August 1997<ref name="jpgr.co.uk"/> |
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|1997 |
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==References== |
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Length | 36:43 | |||
Label | Polygram | |||
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It's Alright (I See Rainbows) is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the murder of husband John Lennon. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park. Released in 1982, all songs were written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. It charted at #98 in the US.
Background[edit]
The album saw Yoko take her music in a more uplifting direction following 1981's Season of Glass, despite the "bulk" of the album's songs "deal[ing] with her unabated feelings of loss over Lennon."[2]
Yoko reflected on the making of the album when writing liner notes for the 1992 boxset Onobox:
The songs from It’s Alright were an attempt to do new sounds. I used shotguns for the backbeat. I brought Sean’s toy raygun to the studio to use it as a rhythm track. I was expecting the usual sneer I had gotten from the musicians and engineers whenever I had tried to do anything that was out of the ordinary. Surprisingly, no one was upset this time. It was ’82 and it seemed as though I was finally in sync with the world.
[...]
In a way, the It's Alright time was much more difficult for me as a woman, as a person, than when I had made Season Of Glass. Life went on. I had to walk and talk normally, while I knew that somewhere inside me there was a clock that had stopped in ’80.
— Yoko Ono, "ONOBOX by Yoko Ono". 23 April 2009.
In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.[3] The 1997 release used newly remixed versions of all songs. Some of the original mixes had a CD release in 1992 on the Onobox set but the rest remain unreleased on CD to date.
Reception[edit]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Rolling Stone | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Billboard called it Ono's "most commercially accessible musical effort."[5] Writing for Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder noted its "committed and convincing avant-gardism", which produced a "synthesizer-based pop that’s more adventurous than much of the music currently being ground out by Europersons half her age."[2]
Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Yoko Ono.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "My Man" | 3:56 |
2. | "Never Say Goodbye" | 4:25 |
3. | "Spec of Dust" | 3:31 |
4. | "Loneliness" | 3:47 |
5. | "Tomorrow May Never Come" | 2:26 |
No. | Title | Length |
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6. | "It's Alright" | 4:23 |
7. | "Wake Up" | 3:47 |
8. | "Let the Tears Dry" | 2:24 |
9. | "Dream Love" | 4:53 |
10. | "I See Rainbows" | 3:15 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "Beautiful Boys" (Demo) | 2:00 |
12. | "You're the One" (Alternate take) | 4:50 |
Personnel[edit]
- Yoko Ono – vocals
- Paul Griffin – keyboards, synthesizer, piano
- Pete Cannarozzi – synthesizer
- Gordon Grody, Kurt Yahjihan, Carlos Alomar – background vocals
- Elliott Randall, Steve Love, Hugh McCracken, John Lennon, John Tropea – guitar
- Michael Holmes, Paul Shaffer – keyboards
- Neil Jason, Tony Levin, Wayne Pedziwiatr – bass guitar
- Yogi Horton, Allan Schwartzberg – drums
- Rubens Bassini, David A. Freedman, Sammy Figueroa, Roger Squitero – percussion
- Badal Roy – tabla
- Howard Johnson – baritone saxophone, tuba
- Technical
- Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith – engineer
- Bob Gruen – photography
Charts[edit]
Chart (1982–83) | Peak position |
Total weeks |
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U.S. Billboard 200 | 98 | 13 |
Release history[edit]
Country | Date | Format | Label | Catalog |
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United States | 2 November 1982[1] | LP | Polydor | PD1-6364[6] |
Cassette | CT-1-6364[7] | |||
United Kingdom | 16 December 1982[1] | LP | POLD 5073[8] | |
Cassette | POLDC 5073[8] | |||
Germany | 1982 | LP | 2391559[9] | |
Australia[10] | ||||
Japan | January 1983 | 28MM 0241[11] | ||
United States | 1 July 1997[12] | CD | Rykodisc | RCD 10422[13] |
United Kingdom | 26 August 1997[8] | |||
Japan | 1997 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Onobox (liner notes). Yoko Ono. Rykodisc. 1992. RCD 10224/29.
{{cite AV media notes}}
: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b c Loder, Kurt (1983-01-20). "It's Alright (I See Rainbows)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
- ^ Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r46037
- ^ "Top Album Picks". Billboard. December 25, 1982. p. 87. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
- ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)". Discogs. 29 November 1982.
- ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Cassette)". Discogs. 1982.
- ^ a b c "It's Alright (I See Rainbows)".
- ^ "Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)".
- ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)". Discogs. 1982.
- ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs. January 1983.
- ^ "Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued". MTV. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018.
- ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1997, CD)". Discogs. 1997.