Kate Bush's The Dreaming and Yoko Ono's Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band are two of the albums featured in our Records That Changed Our Lives series Photo Illustration by Estefania Mitre/NPR/Getty Images hide caption
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Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band is centered on her unique and powerful voice; even decades after its release, it still sounds utterly fearless. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR; Getty Images; Courtesy of Apple Records hide caption
Elle King's sophomore full-length Shake the Spirit is on our short list for the best albums out on Oct. 19. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Solange Knowles performs at the 2017 ESSENCE Festival in New Orleans, La. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for 2017 ESSENCE Festival hide caption
Yoko Ono, accompanied by son Sean Lennon, accepted the Centennial Song award for "Imagine" at a National Music Publishers' Association event Wednesday in New York. Gary Gershoff/Courtesy NMPA hide caption
John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, pictured above in January 1970, are the subjects of Jonathan Cott's new book Days That I'll Remember. Cott met Lennon in 1968 and was friends with the couple. Anthony Cox/Getty Images hide caption
Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono. StoryCorps hide caption
John Lennon and Yoko Ono greet the press from the Presidential Suite of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam on March 25, 1969. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption