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Sean Ono Lennon Looks Back on Parents John and Yoko's 'Legendary Love': 'He Always Had His Heart Set on Her' (Exclusive

The iconic couple's only son produced an expansive box set of his father's 1973 album 'Mind Games,' which he tells PEOPLE is "infused" with John's love for Yoko,

While anthems like “Give Peace a Chance” and “Imagine” had long singled them out a threat in the eyes of Nixon’s reactionary administration, persecution against the pair didn't begin in earnest until they relocated from Lennon's native England to New York City at the end of 1971. Settling in Manhattan’s liberal Greenwich Village enclave, they soon attracted a crowd of ultra-radical activists like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, who aimed to harness the famous couple’s celebrity to promote their pet causes. “"Bring On the Lucie (Freda Peeple)" is a pun-y take on the sloganeering of recent songs like “Power to the People,” and the title track features Lennon singing a discrete “make love not war” on the outro.

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