Starpeace

For other uses, see Starpeace (disambiguation).
"Sky People" redirects here. For other uses, see Sky People (disambiguation).
Starpeace
Studio album by
Yoko Ono
Released18 November 1985 (1985-11-18)
StudioRight Track, New York City
Genre
Length40:21
LabelPolyGram
ProducerBill Laswell, Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono chronology
Milk and Honey
(1984) 		Starpeace
(1985) 		Onobox
(1992)
Singles from Starpeace
  1. "Hell in Paradise"
    Released: 13 October 1985
  2. "Cape Clear"
    Released: December 1985

Starpeace is a 1985 concept album by Yoko Ono, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. As with most Ono albums, it did not chart extensively but the single release of "Hell in Paradise" reached #16 on the US dance charts. The album was subtitled An Earth Play for Sun and Air in the booklet and on the disc.

Aftermath

In 1986, Ono set out on a world tour to accompany the album's message. The CD reissue by Rykodisc in 1997,[1] includes a live recording of "Imagine" from the sellout Budapest show of the tour. An a cappella version of "Now or Never" from the same show was also a bonus track on A Story. Like with the Rykodisc reissue of It's Alright, the 1997 release of Starpeace used newly remixed versions of all songs. The original mixes only received a CD release in Japan in 1985.

The 1984 video documentary release Yoko Ono: Now & Then includes footage of the recording sessions for Starpeace. Over the end credits, Ono performs an unreleased song apparently entitled "Rainbow Time".

"Cape Clear" was released as the album's second single, available on the 12" format. The single features a Vocal Remix and Instrumental Mix of "Cape Clear" along with a re-edit of "Walking on Thin Ice" on the flipside.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Robert ChristgauB−[4]
Sounds[5]

The album received mixed reviews. Sounds gave it a one star (out of five) review, calling it "a slab of pretentious AOR offal".[5] Spin writer Armond White called it "a Sesame Street album for children who think My Weekly Reader has been withholding the truth", and said that "the album's placidity and earnestness make embarrassing claims on our emotions".[6] AllMusic writer Richie Unterberger retrospectively gave it two stars, stating that the tracks were "often imbued with a kind of sappy utopianism".[3] Peter Buckley, in The Rough Guide to Rock, has described the album as "a rather bombastic error of judgement, laden down by pseudo-cosmic philosophizing".[7] Rick Shefchik, in the Charlotte Observer called it "the same old '60s hippie drivel".[8]

On the other hand, Robert Palmer of The New York Times gave the album a positive review, calling it "splended" [sic], viewing it as "the most balanced album Miss Ono has made", and describing it as "state-of-the-art pop music for 1985".[9] Rolling Stone also reviewed the album positively, with Anthony Decurtis writing that "Starpeace seamlessly fuses artistic daring and accessibility... there can be no denying that this fifty-two-year-old pop star now fully deserves to be reckoned with on her own demanding terms".[10]

The poor response to the album and low ticket sales on the world tour led to Ono withdrawing from making music, later saying "After Starpeace I was totally discouraged...by the fact that there was no kind of demand for what I was doing, to put it mildly!".[11] She returned to music with the critically acclaimed Rising in 1996.

Track listing

All songs written by Yoko Ono, except where noted.

Air Side
No.TitleLength
1."Hell in Paradise"3:27
2."I Love All of Me"3:53
3."Children Power"2:26
4."Rainbow Revelation"3:17
5."The King of the Zoo"3:10
6."Remember Raven"2:12
Be Side
No.TitleLength
7."Cape Clear"4:52
8."Sky People"3:46
9."You and I"3:01
10."It's Gonna Rain (Living on Tiptoe)"3:42
11."Starpeace"3:17
12."I Love You, Earth"2:40
Reissue bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Imagine" (Live)John Lennon4:44

Singles

"Hell in Paradise"
"Cape Clear"

Personnel

Technical
"Imagine" (Rykodisc CD Reissue Bonus Track)

Recorded live during the Starpeace tour in Budapest, Hungary on March 14, 1986.

  • Yoko Ono – vocal
  • Jimmy Rip – guitar
  • Leigh Foxx – bass guitar
  • Mark Rivera, Phil Ashley – keyboards
  • Benny Gramm – drums
  • Steve Scales – percussion

Tour

In 1986 Yoko set out on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace, mostly visiting Eastern European countries that she felt were in need of her message of peace. Ono refused to tour with a corporate sponsor and personally financed the endeavour herself.

Planned US tour dates were postponed and eventually cancelled due to disappointing ticket sales. Rykodisc's 1997 CD reissues of Ono's albums made available live versions of "Imagine" and "Now or Never" from the tour.
The Starpeace setlist usually consisted of:

Release history

Country Date Format Label Catalog
United States 19 November 1985 LP Polydor 827 5301 Y1[12]
United Kingdom 18 November 1985 826 530-1[13]
Cassette 826 530-4[13]
Japan 1985 LP 28MM 0472
CD P33P 20034
Germany LP 827 530-1[14]
United States 1 July 1997[15] CD Rykodisc RCD 10423
United Kingdom 25 August 1997[13]
Japan 1997

References

  1. ^ Yoko Ono – Starpeace (CD, Album) at Discogs
  2. ^ "Yoko Ono – Cape Clear (Remix) / Walking on Thin Ice (Re-Edit)". Discogs.
  3. ^ a b Starpeace at AllMusic
  4. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Yoko Ono".
  5. ^ a b "Yoko One 'Starpeace'", Sounds, 14 December 1985, p. 28
  6. ^ White, Armond (1985) "Yoko Ono Starpeace", Spin, December 1985, p. 28. Retrieved 15 March 2013
  7. ^ Buckley, Peter (2003) The Rough Guide to Rock, Rough Guides, ISBN 978-1843531050, p. 752
  8. ^ Shefchik, Rick (1985) "Yoko Ono: Old Hippie in New Package", Charlotte Observer, November 15, 1985, p. 7D
  9. ^ Palmer, Robert (1985) "'Starpeace' Lets Yoko Ono Have Her Cake and Eat It", The New York Times, October 13, 1985. Retrieved March 15, 2013
  10. ^ Decurtis, Andrew (1985) "Yoko Ono Starpeace", Rolling Stone, December 5, 1985. Retrieved March 15, 2013
  11. ^ Johnstone, Nick (2006) Yoko Ono Talking, Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-1846091018, p. 81
  12. ^ "Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - Starpeace (1985)".
  13. ^ a b c "Starpeace".
  14. ^ "Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - Starpeace (1985)".
  15. ^ "Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued". MTV. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018.

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