A Story is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

, recorded in 1974, during the "lost weekend" sessions in which John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 produced Walls And Bridges

Walls and Bridges

Walls and Bridges is the fifth album by John Lennon; it was issued on 26 September 1974 in the United States and on 4 October in the United Kingdom. Written, recorded and released during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono , the album captures Lennon in the midst of The Lost Weekend...

. The album went unreleased until the 1992 box set Onobox

Onobox

Onobox is a 1992 comprehensive 6-disc collection of Yoko Ono's work from 1968 to 1985. The discs are grouped by era and theme. Disc six is the previously unreleased 1974 album A Story, which was later reissued separately along with the rest of Ono's back catalogue. There was also an accompanying...

, which featured material from A Story on disc six. It only saw proper release as an individual album in 1997, with the re-issuing of Ono's back catalogue by Rykodisc

Rykodisc

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. The reissue added three bonus tracks, including home demos and a live recording from the Starpeace

Starpeace

Starpeace is Yoko Ono's 1985 concept album, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system...

tour.

Track listing

1. "A Story" – 2:38
2. "Loneliness" – 3:33
3. "Will You Touch Me" – 2:39
4. "Dogtown" – 3:32
5. "Tomorrow May Never Come" – 2:52
6. "Yes, I'm a Witch" – 3:11
7. "She Gets Down On Her Knees" – 4:50
8. "It Happened" – 3:52
9. "Winter Friend" – 3:17
10. "Heartburn Stew" – 2:09
11. "Hard Times Are Over" – 4:37
12. "Anatano Te" (Demo) [Bonus Track] – 3:35
13. "Extension 33" (Demo) [Bonus Track] – 1:27
14. "Now or Never" (Live) (A cappella) [Bonus Track] – 1:18

Track information

Many of the tracks on A Story made it onto subsequent albums in re-recorded form:

• "Loneliness" and "Tomorrow May Never Come" were included on It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
  It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
  It's Alright is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the death of husband John Lennon. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park...
  
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• "Will You Touch Me", "Dogtown" and "She Gets Down On Her Knees" were included on Season of Glass
  Season of Glass
  Season of Glass is a 1981 album by Yoko Ono, her first solo recording after the murder of her husband John Lennon. The album was released less than six months after Lennon's death and deals with it directly in songs such as "Goodbye Sadness" and "I Don't Know Why".The front cover features Lennon's...
  
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• "Hard Times Are Over" was included on Double Fantasy
  Double Fantasy
  Double Fantasy is an album released by John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, in 1980. Though initially poorly received, the album is notable for its association with Lennon's murder three weeks after its release, whereupon it become a worldwide commercial success, and went on to win the 1981 Album...
  
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• "It Happened" was released as a different mix as the B-side to "Walking on Thin Ice
  Walking on Thin Ice
  "Walking on Thin Ice" is a New Wave/dance song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman...
  
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• "Yes, I'm a Witch" was included on, and loaned its title to, Yes, I'm a Witch
  Yes, I'm a Witch
  -Track listing:All songs were written by Yoko Ono.#Hank Shocklee – "Witch Shocktronica Intro"#Peaches – "Kiss Kiss Kiss"#Shitake Monkey – "O'Oh"#Blow Up – "Everyman Everywoman"#Le Tigre – "Sisters O Sisters"#Porcupine Tree – "Death of Samantha"...
  
  , a remix album of song's from Ono's back catalogue.