UK Single Release: John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Instant Karma/Who Has Seen The Wind? - February 6, 1970
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| Event | |
| Date | February 6, 1970 |
| Short description | Single Release: John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Instant Karma/Who Has Seen The Wind? in UK. |
| Location | UK |
A single recorded on January 27, making it one of the fastest-completed singles ever made. It was also the first solo Beatles single to sell more than a million copies in America. It was deleted on December 31, 1986. This was John's best attempt at writing what he called a "newspaper song." "I want records to be more like newspapers… I want them to come out once a week, or twice a week. With this song, we wrote it in the morning, recorded and re-mixed it, and got it out within a week, which was pretty fast moving. I want it to be like that, you know. I want to be able to put it out as it happens. I write songs about what’s happening to me at the moment and I want it to be out at that moment. I don’t care whose name goes on it." John said.
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| "Instant Karma/Who Has Seen The Wind?" | ||
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| Single by John Lennon | ||
| A-side(s) | Instant Karma | |
| B-side(s) | Who Has Seen The Wind? | |
| Released | February 6, 1970 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Recorded | January 27, 1970 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | Apple Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon/Ono | |
| Producer(s) | John Lennon | |
| Peak chart positions | ||
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5 in UK charts | ||
| John Lennon singles chronology | ||
| Cold Turkey/Don't Worry, Kyoko, 1969 | Instant Karma/Who Has Seen The Wind?, 1970 | Power To The People/Open Your Box, 1971 |
