0savesSave On February 14-18, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono did a one week co-host stint on US television’s Mike Douglas Show. This performance aired on the Feb. 14th show and was actually taped two weeks earlier on Jan. 31st. John and Yoko are joined onstage by the Elephants Memory Band to perform a song [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Yer Blues rehearsal by ‘The Dirty Mac’, 1968
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Forty three years ago on Dec. 11, 1968, The Rolling Stones recorded a television special to promote their Beggar’s Banquet LP. Similar to the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour theme from the previous year, the Stones went for a circus atmosphere with plenty of musical guests and circus [...]
Blue Suede Shoes – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, live in ’69
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. [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – I’m Losing You (1980 raw out-take)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. In early 1980, during the planning stages of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy album, the two agreed to approach Jack Douglas about producing it. The Lennons had worked with Jack before, as far back as the Imagine album, where he acted as sound engineer. Jack [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – ‘Bungalow Bill’ acoustic demo, May 1968
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. This week’s BROW, like last week’s, features another of the songs composed while The Beatles were in India, over February through April 1968. John Lennon, the song’s primary composer, explained in a Playboy interview: ‘Bungalow Bill’ was written about a guy in Maharishi’s meditation camp who took [...]
Give Me Some Truth – original clip from 1972 ‘Imagine’ film
This Sunday John Lennon would have been 71, and so I thought some of his music from ’71 would be a good thing for this week’s VOW (video of the week). Between 1969 and 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released fourteen films, and the last of these, Imagine, made its world premier on December [...]
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