The Plastic Ono Band is the band John Lennon started after he left the Beatles.

Shortly before the Beatles disbanded, John Lennon collaborated with his newfound companion Yoko Ono on the experimental album Two Virgins. With the release of Paul McCartney solo album McCartney, the Beatles were officially disbanded, and Lennon began work on his own solo projects.

His first solo album, Plastic Ono Band, was meant as an exercise in personal therapy. Lennon poured his personal feelings and troubles into a series of songs that he considered "primal scream" therapy; this is reflected in a number of songs on the album in which Lennon literally screams. The result of his work was an album considered by many to be one of the predecessors of modern-day "grunge" and punk rock, as Lennon lashed out at the world and exorcised his inner demons.

The album was highly controversial, because Lennon chose to include profanities in two songs, "I Found Out" and "Working Class Hero." The record label refused to print the actual lyrics containing these expletives.

Album tracks:

• Mother
• Hold On
• I Found Out
• Working Class Hero
• Isolation
• Remember
• Love
• Well Well Well
• Look At Me
• God
• My Mummy's Dead

A remastered 2001 re-release of the album on CD also included the tracks "Power To The People" and "Do The Oz."

Lennon's band during his solo career was called the Plastic Ono Band.