Fly is the second 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...

. It was produced by 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...

 and Ono, and released in 1971. It was a complete avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

/Fluxus

Fluxus

Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...

 package in a gatefold

Gatefold

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 sleeve

Record sleeve

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 that came with a full-size poster and a postcard to order Ono's book Grapefruit

Grapefruit (book)

Grapefruit is an artist's book written by Yoko Ono, originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of "event scores" that replace the physical work of art – the traditional stock-in-trade of artists – with instructions that an...

. Notable songs include the singles "Midsummer New York" and "Mrs. Lennon

Mrs. Lennon

"Mrs. Lennon" was Yoko Ono's single from her Fly album . The song was also featured in the film Imagine .A cover version has been recorded by the band Donny Who Loved Bowling....

", "Hirake" aka "Open Your Box

Open Your Box

Open Your Box is a song by Yoko Ono, released on 12 March 1971 as the B-side of John Lennon's single Power to the People. It was remixed and re-released by Orange Factory in 2001....

" and "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand in the Snow)", dedicated to Ono's daughter Kyoko Cox.

"Airmale" is the soundtrack to 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...

's film Erection, showing a building being erected in time lapse

Time Lapse

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d photography, while "Fly" is the soundtrack to Ono's film "Fly".

Personnel

• 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...
  
   – vocals, claves on "Airmale" and "Don't Count The Waves"
• 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...
  
   – guitar, piano, organ
• Klaus Voorman – bass, guitar, bells on "Mrs Lennon", cymbal on "O Wind", percussion on "Don't Count The Waves"
• Bobby Keyes – claves on "O Wind"
• Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
   – guitar on "Don't Worry Kyoko"
• Jim Keltner
  Jim Keltner
  James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...
  
   – drums, tuned drum, tabla, percussion
• Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
   – drums on "Don't Worry Kyoko"
• Jim Gordon
  Jim Gordon (musician)
  James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...
  
   – drums on "Hirake", tabla on "O Wind"
• Chris Osborne – dobro on "Midsummer New York", "MindTrain"

Side two

1. "Mind Holes" – 2:47
2. "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" 4:55
3. "Mrs. Lennon
   Mrs. Lennon
   "Mrs. Lennon" was Yoko Ono's single from her Fly album . The song was also featured in the film Imagine .A cover version has been recorded by the band Donny Who Loved Bowling....
   
   " – 4:12
4. "Hirake
   Open Your Box
   Open Your Box is a song by Yoko Ono, released on 12 March 1971 as the B-side of John Lennon's single Power to the People. It was remixed and re-released by Orange Factory in 2001....
   
   " – 3:31
5. "Toilet Piece/Unknown" – 0:30
6. "O'Wind (Body Is the Scar of Your Mind)" – 5:22

Singles

• "Mrs. Lennon"/"Midsummer New York" (7") (did not chart)
• "Mind Train" (edit)/"Listen, The Snow Is Falling" (7") (did not chart)