Editing Shaved Fish (section)

==Release==
''Shaved Fish'' was released on 20 October 1975 in the US<ref>{{Cite web| title=Shaved Fish |url=http://www.johnlennon.com/music/albums/shaved-fish |access-date=17 December 2021 |website=johnlennon.com}}</ref> and 24 October in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/5813-2886-2|title=BPI}}</ref> The release of the album came less than three weeks after the resolution of Lennon's long-running immigration dispute and the birth of [[Sean Lennon]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Womack|first1=Kenneth|author-link1=Kenneth Womack|title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four|date=2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO Greenwood|location=Santa Barbara|isbn=978-0-313-39171-2|page=823|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&q=%22john%20lennon%22%20%22katsuobushi%22&pg=PA823|access-date=29 November 2014}}</ref>

Several of the master tapes were unavailable for the compilation, and dubs from 45 rpm single records were used. Due to this, the first release of the [[compact disc]] in May 1987 suffered from poor sound quality and needed to be remastered. The improved CD version was issued in December 1987,<ref name=":0" /> restoring the full fadeouts that were shortened in some of the songs on the original release.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 June 1989|title=Better late than never for remastered CDs|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/423708581/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2020-11-07|website=The Gazette from Montreal|location=Quebec|page=54|language=en|via=Newspapers}}</ref>

In February 1976, following the release of the album, Lennon's recording contract expired, and he was uninterested in re-signing with EMI/Capitol.<ref name=Rough110-111>{{cite book|last=Ingham|first=Chris|title=The Rough Guide to The Beatles|year=2003|publisher=Rough Guides|location=London|isbn=978-1-84353-140-1|edition=1st|pages=110–111}}</ref>