Not much is known about this mysterious recording of John Lennon’s most likely recorded sometime in the mid-to-late 1970′s. It may well have seen the light of day on an official release had John’s life not been stolen from him so early. This is in demo form with only John and his acoustic guitar. It might have been a cool idea to have included this on the 2004 John Lennon Acoustic CD release but , ah, what do I know about these things? Anyway, it’s called India and it’s your BROW for this week. Enjoy.

John Lennon

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The master of The Beatles’ 1966 single Paperback Writer was created using take 2 in a recording session that took place on April 13th of that same year. Be a fly on the wall in the studio now (or should I say then?) and listen to it “raw”, sans fade-out and preceded by take 1 which was an instrumental take that broke down early. The backing vocals come through much clearer here than on the final mix created a few days later. It was then that the reverb special effects were added yielding the official version that we are all familiar with today. It was released on 45 in the US on May 30th and went on to become yet another number one single for the band.

Paperback Writer, US 45 picture sleeve, 1966

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I received a request last week from a reader/listener to feature a rarity from Paul McCartney’s “Flaming Pie era” (circa 1997), so for this weeks BROW I’m serving up a recording made on November 20th of that year when Paul paid a visit on the Oprah Winfrey show to promote his new album. Paul was not accompanied with a band at the time but he had pre-recorded all backing instruments and backing vocals especially for the show’s performance which enabled him to sing and play guitar live with the backing in this account of Young Boy. The song has a slightly different feel than the version we hear on the Flaming Pie CD since the official version features Steve Miller on backing vocals and guitar and here Paul is playing all instruments and handling all vocals himself. Paul also performed the title track from Flaming Pie using pre-recorded backing as well, and also a quick keyboard solo of Lady Madonna. At the end of the show, the world premier of his Beautiful Night video was aired which featured Ringo Starr (although a scene of extremely brief nudity was censored from the video to make it suitable for us here in the “land of the free”). The show aired 4 days later on November 24th.

Paul McCartney on the Oprah show, 1997

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Welcome to BROW. This week we look at George Harrison’s Run Of The Mill. This was one of my favorite, although somewhat obscure, tracks from the All Things Must Pass sessions. Recorded sometime between May and August of 1970, this early take has just had the piano track added to it and sounds much cleaner than the version we hear on the album since we are spared the “wall of sound” production technique administered by producer Phil Spector. The eloquence of the words and the quiet horns in the background make this a real gem. George adds some la-la’s at the end where he’s probably imagining some backing vocals or additional instrumentation.

George Harrison, looking a little Jesus-like, circa 1970

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