Editing Plastic Ono Band (section)

{{Short description|Rock band}}
{{About|the band|the album with Lennon|John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band{{!}}''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band''|the album with Ono|Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band{{!}}''Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band''}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Plastic Ono Band
| image           = PlasticOnoBand.jpg
| caption         = Plastic Ono Band, 1969. L–R: [[Klaus Voormann]], [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]], [[Yoko Ono]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Eric Clapton]]
| landscape       = yes
| background      = group_or_band
| alias           = {{flatlist|
*Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory 
*Plastic U.F. Ono Band
*Plastic Ono Nuclear Band
*Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
*[[Elastic Oz Band]]
}}
| origin          = London, England
| genre           = {{flatlist|
*[[Rock music|Rock]]
*[[experimental music|experimental]]
*[[art rock]]
*[[conceptual art]]
*{{nowrap|[[avant-garde music|avant-garde]]}}
}}
| years_active    = {{hlist|1968–1974|2009–2015}}
| label           = {{flatlist|
*[[Apple Records|Apple]] 
*Chimera Music
}}
| spinoff_of      = [[The Beatles]]
| associated_acts = {{flatlist|
*[[The Beatles]]
*[[The Dirty Mac]]
*[[Elephant's Memory]]
*[[The Flaming Lips]]
}}
| website         = {{URL|http://yopob.com/}}
| current_members = See [[List of Plastic Ono Band line-ups]] for current and past members.
}}

The '''Plastic Ono Band''' was a [[Band (rock and pop)|rock band]] and [[Fluxus]]-based [[artist collective]]<ref name="John 2020, pp. 17-19">''John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band'' book by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, October 2020, pp. 17-19</ref> formed by [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] in 1968-9 for their collaborative musical and [[sound art]] projects, films, [[conceptual art]] projects and eventual solo LPs. The creation of the Plastic Ono Band, which began in 1967 with Ono's idea for an art exhibition in Berlin, allowed Lennon to separate his artistic output from that of [[the Beatles]].<ref name="John 2020, pp. 17-19">''John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band'' book by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, October 2020, pp. 17-19</ref>

Lennon and Ono began a personal and artistic relationship in 1968, collaborating on several experimental releases. After their marriage in 1969, they decided their future endeavours would be credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The band featured a rotating line-up of musicians including [[Eric Clapton]], [[Klaus Voormann]], [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]], [[Billy Preston]], [[Jim Keltner]], [[Keith Moon]], [[Delaney & Bonnie|Delaney & Bonnie and Friends]], and Lennon's former [[Beatles]] bandmates [[George Harrison]] and [[Ringo Starr]]. After Lennon and Ono moved to New York in 1971, they collaborated with [[Elephant's Memory]] under the name "Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory". Lennon's collaborations continued under similar names until 1974.

From 2009 to 2015, Ono and her son [[Sean Lennon]] led a new incarnation of the group, the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.