This article is about a song by John Lennon. For other uses, see Cold turkey (disambiguation).
"Cold Turkey"
Single by Plastic Ono Band
B-side
"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)" (Yoko Ono)
Released
20 October 1969 (1969-10-20)
Recorded
30 September 1969
Studio
EMI, London
Genre
Hard rock[1]
blues rock[2][3]
Length
5:01
Label
Apple
Songwriter(s)
John Lennon
Producer(s)
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Plastic Ono Band singles chronology
"Give Peace a Chance" (1969)
"Cold Turkey" (1969)
"Instant Karma!" (1970)
"Cold Turkey" is a song written by English singer-songwriter John Lennon, released as a single in 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, catalogue Apples 1001 in the United Kingdom, Apple 1813 in the United States. It is the second solo single issued by Lennon and it peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. The song's first appearance on an album was Live Peace in Toronto 1969 where the song had been performed live on 13 September 1969 with Lennon reading the lyrics off a clip-board.[4][5][6]
^David Luhrssen; Michael Larson (24 February 2017). Encyclopedia of Classic Rock. ABC-CLIO. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-4408-3514-8.
^Richie Unterberger (25 October 2014). The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film (Revised & Expanded Ebook ed.). BookBaby. p. 919. ISBN 978-0-9915892-6-5.[permanent dead link]
^Doyle Greene (2 March 2016). Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era. McFarland. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-4766-2403-7.
^Ben Urish; Kenneth G. Bielen (2007). The Words and Music of John Lennon. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-275-99180-7.
^John Blaney (2005). John Lennon: Listen to This Book. Paper Jukebox. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-9544528-1-0.
^"John Lennon Discography". Homepage.ntlworld.com. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
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