It was promoter John Brower’s lucky day on September 12th, 1969. He called Apple to see if John & Yoko could possibly lend some credibility to his Rock & Roll Revival Festival the following night by flying in and introducing one of the acts. Surprise! John said he’d come, but only if he could play. [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Remember (out-take from Plastic Ono Band sessions, 1971)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. John Lennon’s first project after the April 1970 official breakup of The Beatles was to attend primal therapy sessions with his wife, Yoko. Under the guidance of psychotherapist Arthur Janov, who created this trauma-based therapeutic treatment, the Ono-Lennons learned how to resolve the trauma and suppressed pain [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Out The Blue (Alternate take)
TheBeatlesRarity.com marches forward with your first BROW for the month of May. In June 1973, right about the time John Lennon was ready to go into the studio to record his next album, Mind Games, he separated from Yoko Ono for a period of 18 months that was later referred to as his “lost weekend”. [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Power To The People (out-take version)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. On January 22, 1971, John Lennon gave an interview to Tariq Ali, editor of the underground UK magazine Red Mole, and his assistant Robin Blackburn. The interview touched on John’s seemingly radical political views and how they were surfacing in his recent music. A detailed discussion of [...]
Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) – 1970 promo
Instant Karma! was John Lennon’s third US/UK single following Give Peace A Chance and Cold Turkey and was released in February 1970, which was still a couple months before The Beatles were disbanded officially. John had Phil Spector produce the record and this could have been a way of trying him out prior to giving [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Say It Again/You Are Here demo
Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Not a whole lot is known about this acoustic home demo of John Lennon’s that I’m throwing on for the BROW this week. It’s called Say It Again and for those of you familiar with John’s 1973 Mind Games album, you may recognize elements of the [...]
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