It's Alright (I See Rainbows)

It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
Studio album by Yoko Ono
Released	2 November 1982 (1982-11-02)[1]
Studio	The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre	Pop new wave
Length	36:43
Label	Polygram
Producer	Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono chronology
Season of Glass (1981) It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982) Milk and Honey (1984)
Singles from It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
"My Man" Released: 1 November 1982 (US);[1] 26 November 1982 (UK)[1] "Never Say Goodbye" Released: 25 January 1983 (US)[1]

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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, released in 1982, marked Ono's first foray into new wave sounds and 1980s pop production. All songs were written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. It charted at #98 in the US.

Background[]

The album saw Yoko take her music in a more uplifting direction following 1981's Season of Glass. 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.

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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.

— Yoko Ono, "ONOBOX by Yoko Ono".

In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.^[4] 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.

Track listing[]

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

Personnel[]

• 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

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