Open Your Box

"Open Your Box" is a The Plastic Ono Band song by Yoko Ono, released on 12 March 1971 as the B-side of John Lennon's single "Power to the People". Lennon played guitar and produced the song.

"Open Your Box"
Single by Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band
A-side"Power to the People" (UK) (John Lennon)
Released12 March 1971
RecordedJanuary–March 1971
Length3:31
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)Yoko Ono
Producer(s)
Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band singles chronology
"Open Your Box"
(1971)
"Mrs. Lennon"
(1971)
"Open Your Box"
2001 remix single cover
Single by Yoko Ono
Released2001
RecordedFebruary–March 1971, remixed 2001
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Yoko Ono
Producer(s)Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono singles chronology
"Hell in Paradise"
(1985)
"Open Your Box"
(2001)
"Kiss Kiss Kiss"
(2002)

In 1971, Ono's risqué lyrics were received in controversy ("box" is slang for vagina). Ono sings, "Open your box, open your trousers, open your sex, open your legs, open open open open open". The record was banned from radio in Britain, and was played on-air only when echo was added to blur the lyrics. Capitol Records, which distributed music by Apple Records in the United States, initially refused to issue the recording, and it was replaced as the B-side by another Ono track, "Touch Me".

"Open Your Box" was remixed and re-released by Orange Factory in 2001.

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