Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Plastic Ono Band - MP3 instrumental karaoke

"Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" may be one of the best festive protest songs ever made; an anti-war anthem that regularly tops the best-seller list conceived by two of the world's biggest cultural figures. Released at the height of the Vietnam War as a single in 1971 by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir and produced by Phil Spector, the song calls for a "happy New Year... Without any fear" with the lines "War is over, if you want it / War is over, now" being sung by Yoko Ono and the choir in the track's haunting outro. "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" was the seventh non-Beatles single to be released by John Lennon, who just two years before in December 1969, co-staged the now-iconic picture of himself with Yoko Ono in which they proclaimed a "War is Over!" message plastered on billboards and posters around the world. "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)," which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021, peaked at Number 2 in 1980, following the tragic death of John Lennon on December 8, 1980.