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John Lennon - You Are Here (Elements Mix) from The Ultimate Collection - Watch in 4K ♾

johnlennon 2024-05-23 | JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD
John: You are here. People read it and suddenly realize it’s true. Yes, I’m here, they think. So are these other people. We’re all here together. And that’s where the vibrations start being exchanged. Good and bad ones according to who is sending out and how they feel.

A lot of people went to India to find out they were here. Like [Timothy] Leary’s friend Richard Alpert [Ram Dass] went to India and saw all the gurus, chasing all over the place, and all the gurus said to him was, ‘Remember – be here now’. That’s all them gurus will ever tell you. ‘Remember – be here now’. Remember this moment now.

I was talking to George the other day and I forgot to say to him, ‘What are you searching for? You are here!’

We’re all God. Christ said the kingdom of heaven is within you. And that’s what it means. And the Indians say that and the Zen people say that. It’s a basic thing of religion. We’re all God. I’m not a god or the god, but we are all God and we are all potentially divine and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, you know. And if you look hard enough, you see it.

I believe in life after death, without any doubt. In meditation, on drugs, on diets, I’ve been aware of soul and been aware of the power. God is a power which we’re all capable of tapping. We’re all lightbulbs that can tap the electricity.

From the book MIND GAMES - in the words of John Lennon & Yoko Ono and the people who were there - available to preorder from Thames and Hudson at bit.ly/MindGamesBook
Sources: John Lennon on Frost On Sunday, BBC, August 1968 and John Lennon interviews with Howard Smith, September 1971 and David Wigg, June 1969.

For more Meditation Affirmations from John & Yoko, join us on the hour every hour at citizenofnutopia.com

YOU ARE HERE (Elements Mix)
Sneaky Pete Kleinow: pedal steel guitar
Ken Ascher: organ
Produced by John Lennon
Recording Engineers (1973): Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero
Assistant Engineers (1973): Dennis Ferrante, Richie Apuzzo, Ed Sprigg, Kevin Herron, Jimmy Iovine
Executive Producer (2024): Yoko Ono Lennon
Producer, Creative Director (2024): Sean Ono Lennon
Compilation Producer, Production Manager (2024): Simon Hilton
Mixed & Engineered by (2024): Sam Gannon
Stereo Mastering Engineer (2024): Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

John Lennon Mind Games (The Evolution Documentary) Official Video from The Ultimate Collection

johnlennon 2024-05-15 | JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD
This track is out now on all streaming and download services at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGamesED
Continuing The Ultimate Collection series of John Lennon album remixes for 2024, The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music Recordings present JOHN LENNON - MIND GAMES - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION. Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, these 6 albums of new mixes and excerpts from the MIND GAMES recording sessions include The Ultimate Mixes, Elemental Mixes and Out-takes mixed by Triple-GRAMMY Award winner Paul Hicks; The Elements Mixes and Evolution Documentary mixed and engineered by Sam Gannon; and Raw Studio Mixes mixed by Rob Stevens. All tracks have been completely remixed and newly mastered in High Definition 24-192 Stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio.

THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY
One of the six albums of mixes in the Ultimate Collection is the Evolution Documentary - a set of mini-documentaries that explore the development of each song from their very first demo state through to the fully-formed Master Take, via in-studio development, chat and out-takes. Edited down from the original 16-Track multi-track tapes, demo cassettes and other source tapes, generally each Evolution Documentary runs through the song’s sessions chronologically, starting with demos or early takes and ending with an exploration of the Master Take and its overdubs; highlighting different, and sometimes hidden, parts of the multi-track while including all the best method, madness, and magic heard during the creation and development of the songs. These mixes put the listener into the centre of the studio with John Lennon and The Plastic U.F.Ono Band, in order for you to deep-dive into his creative process.

MIND GAMES - THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY
Part One: In this never-seen-before home video footage from February 1970, we see and hear John Lennon writing an early demo version of 'Mind Games’ - then called ‘Make Love Not War' - on his favourite composing piano in their upstairs bedroom at Tittenhurst Park, their home in Ascot. The song already contains the melody and chords, the ‘make love not war’ refrain and the ‘love is the answer’ chorus.

This very short fragment of footage was found amongst other home video materials whilst conducting a deep search in the archives for content for the MIND GAMES ULTIMATE COLLECTION Box Set audio and book, along with the original (also never-seen-before) lyrics for the song.
John Lennon: vocal , upright piano.
Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, February 1970.

Part Two: John is in the studio at Record Plant on 4 Aug 1973, with Yoko and all the musicians, where he recorded seven takes of ‘Mind Games’. Three of these were complete. Included here are excerpts from Take 3 where Yoko is obviously helping John out with production duties from the control room.
John Lennon: vocal, Clavinet.
David Spinozza: electric guitar.
Ken Ascher: piano, organ, reed organ.
Gordon Edwards: bass.
Jim Keltner: drums.
Recorded at Record Plant, NYC, 4 August 1973.

Part Three: At the start of the exploration of the Master multi-track (Take 2) we hear John referencing his starting pitch on the piano over the solo slide guitar and Mellotron, playing their repeating three-note riff. This journey through all the different parts of the multitrack highlights all the different instruments recorded for the final mix.
Additional overdubs added to the Master ready for the mix on 23 August 1973:
John Lennon: Mellotron, slide guitar, maracas, tambourine.

'Mind Games' written, produced & arranged by John Lennon.
Recording engineers: Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero.
Ultimate Collection produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Evolution Documentary edited, mixed & engineered by Sam Gannon at REVL8 & Abbey Road Studios.
Stereo mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
5.1 Surround & Dolby Atmos mastered by Sam Gannon at REVL8.
Compilation Producer & Production Manager: Simon Hilton.
© Lenono Music administered by Downtown Publishing Ltd.
℗ Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group) / Yoko Ono Lennon.
Film & Video © Yoko Ono Lennon.

JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD

JOHN LENNON - MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder Now.

johnlennon 2024-05-15 | JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD. The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music Recordings presents JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - A Collector's Edition Super Deluxe Box Set, Strictly Numbered and Limited to only 1100 units. This all-encompassing Time Capsule of the JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES album sessions and era contains 2 Limited Edition Reproduction Artworks by John Lennon & Yoko Ono with Certificates of Authenticity as well as a Hologram-Engraved EP, 9LPs (including 2 Zoetrope Picture Discs), 6CDs, 2 Blu-Rays, 2 Books, 4 posters, 4 postcards, 2 maps, 3 badges, Word Puzzle, Bespoke I-Ching Coins, Declaration of Nutopia replica, Nutopian Flag, Nutopian Seal Stamp and Nutopian Embassy replica plaque.

Contained within is the STANDARD DELUXE BOX SET
A Limited Edition 10-inch square Box Set including 6 CDs, 2 HD Audio Blu-Rays, a 128-page hardback book; a reproduction of the original 1973 triptych marketing poster; postcard sized reproductions of 1973 advert artworks and an individually numbered Citizen of Nutopia ID Card.

6 CDs of The Ultimate Mixes, Elemental Mixes, Elements Mixes, Evolution Documentary, Out-takes and Raw Studio Mixes for each of the following tracks:

1. Mind Games
2. Tight A$
3. Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)
4. One Day (At A Time)
5. Bring On The Lucie (Freeda Peeple)
6. Nutopian International Anthem
7. Intuition
8. Out The Blue
9. Only People
10. I Know (I Know)
11. You Are Here
12. Meat City

2 Audio Blu-Rays include High Definition 24/192 Stereo, 24/192 5.1 Surround, and Dolby Atmos versions of all of the tracks, plus the 2024 Remastered ‘Mind Games’ music video and a ‘You Are Here’ (additional out-take) tape boxes music video.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon. Mixed and Engineered by Triple GRAMMY-Award winner Paul Hicks, Mixed and Engineered by Sam Gannon and Mixed by Rob Stevens. Stereos Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios. 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos mastered by Sam Gannon.

Included is a 128-page glossy, hardback coffee-table book about the writing and recording of the album - in the words of John & Yoko - taken from hundreds of hours of archive interviews; also featuring brand-new interviews with all the musicians and engineers, exclusive never-before-seen photographs by Bob Gruen and unseen photos, lyrics, letters, original tape boxes and memorabilia from the John Lennon & Yoko Ono Lennon Archives.

Also available as 2CD and 2LP versions, and as downloads and on streaming from 12 July 2024.

JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD

Peter Jackson & Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg discuss the restoration of The Beatles film

johnlennon 2024-05-08 | Peter Jackson and Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg discuss the restoration of The Beatles documentary, which is now streaming on @disneyplus at disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/the-beatles-let-it-be/71Oc25GCtPny

Let it Be, fully restored for the first time - STREAMING NOW on DisneyPlus.

johnlennon 2024-05-04 | See John Lennon and The Beatles in the 1970 film, Let it Be, fully restored for the first time, now streaming on @disneyplus at disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/the-beatles-let-it-be/71Oc25GCtPny

Sean Ono Lennon interview with Chris Hawkins on BBC6 Radio 3 May 2024

johnlennon 2024-05-03 | The full programme with music is available on BBC Sounds at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yh3t
00:00 Intro.
00:15 Sean Ono Lennon's new album, Asterisms. lnk.to/asterisms
01:30 Does making music come easily to you?
02:18 Do you feel the obvious pressure when you're releasing anything?
03:10 Collaborating with James McCartney on 'Primrose Hill'.
05:04 Will you ever do anything with James McCartney, Zak Starkey and Dhani Harrison?
06:41 WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - the Oscar-winning animated short film https://warisover.com.
08:18 How did winning the Oscar feel?
08:38 Thomas Newman scoring the film.
10:14 How much did you love making the Asterisms album?
11:16 Wish Tree For Yoko Ono - the award-winning website https://wishtreeforyokoono.com.
13:31 Citizen of Nutopia website - https://citizenofnutopia.com.
13:43 What is Nutopia?
14:13 Making the website - a virtual Nutopian planet.
14:40 There's more things to come...
15:08 Lumenate psychedelic meditation App.
16:18 The 9 Meditation Mixes for 'Mind Games' for Lumenate.
16:37 Experiencing the Lumenate App.
17:06 The Mind Games SPACE Mix and Binaural Beats.
17:36 Listen to the SPACE Mix at https://lumenate.page.link/CoQL
18:07 The upcoming MIND GAMES Super Deluxe Box Set,
19:18 Of all your dad's music, is the Mind Games album a favourite of yours?
19:53 Making Positive mind games.
20:11 Sean's interpretations of the song 'Mind Games'.
21:29 Sean in the Nutopian Embassy.
21:38 Epilogue.

Sean Lennon - Asterisms - new album - lnk.to/asterisms
James McCartney & Sean Lennon - 'Primrose Hill' single - jamesmccartney.com
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (animated short film) - warisover.com
Make a wish at Wish Tree For Yoko Ono - wishtreeforyokoono.com
Join us and become a Citizen of Nutopia - citizenofnutopia.com
Try out the Lumenate psychedelic meditation experience App with Mind Games mixes for FREE - https://lumenate.page.link/CoQL
John Lennon - Mind Games Super Deluxe Box Set - johnlennon.com

John & Yoko Meditation Affirmations every hour on the hour at citizenofnutopia.com

johnlennon 2024-05-02 | John & Yoko Meditation Affirmations every hour on the hour at citizenofnutopia.com

John Lennon Mind Games - explore 9 new Meditation Mixes created exclusively for the Lumenate App.

johnlennon 2024-05-01 | 📱 Available here → https://lumenate.page.link/CoQL
Sean Ono Lennon and The John Lennon Estate have partnered with the consciousness-expanding phone app, Lumenate, to exclusively release nine re-imagined Meditation Mixes of John Lennon's classic 1973 peace-and-love anthem, 'Mind Games'.

The newly transformed mixes have been designed (in combination with the frequencies of smartphone flashlight from the Lumenate app) to put the listener in a relaxed, meditative state, to help guide your mind into deeper states of consciousness.

Various sound design techniques and processes have been applied to the original 1973 two-inch multitrack recordings, and in some cases have been enhanced with additional instrumentation from producer Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon.

The 'Mind Games' Meditation Mixes launch on 1 May 2024 as part of Mental Health Awareness Month. The experience is available for free, exclusively via the Lumenate app.

"I'm very happy to be working with Lumenate on this release for Mental Health Awareness Month," said Sean Ono Lennon. "I think our Mind Games project is fun, meaningful, and potentially mind-expanding. I have been using the Lumenate app for my own personal meditations since it launched, and have had many profound experiences. My father was famously into meditation. I remember trying the 'flicker machine' he kept in the bedroom, which is what first introduced me to the idea of stroboscopic brain wave induction. I thought it made sense to combine the music of 'Mind Games' with the science of Lumenate. I really hope people enjoy the results as much as I have."

"It's been such a privilege working with Sean and The Lennon Estate on this exciting collaboration," said Tom Galea, Lumenate's co-founder. "The journeys it takes you on are so deeply relaxing and emotive, providing a uniquely powerful canvas for exploring your mind. I can't wait for the world to experience it, it's already had such a meaningful impact on me personally."

Find out more at johnlennon.com/news/john-lennon-mind-games-psychedelic-meditations-with-lumenate-phone-app

Meanwhile, a comprehensive release of the MIND GAMES ULTIMATE COLLECTION remixed Box Set is due mid-July.

Sign up to https://citizenofnutopia.com.
See johnlennon.com for more details.
Get the Lumenate App at https://lumenate.page.link/CoQL.

You Are Here (Out-take, Take 5) on MIND GAMES vinyl-only 4 Track EP - for Record Store Day 2024

johnlennon 2024-04-20 | Exclusively in Record Shops for Record Store Day 20 April 2024
YOU ARE HERE (OUT-TAKE, TAKE 5)
John: I had this idea like the street maps or things that say where a place is, ‘You Are Here’ on those street-map things. So I thought it would be a good idea to have a show where you actually have the street map inside the gallery and you went in and saw that. So I thought now if I did that, and seeing as how I’ve never done it before and they’ve all got preconceived ideas about what I am, I thought, ‘ha ha!’ I’ll put it on a canvas, so that makes it ‘art’. So I put it on a big white round canvas and just had ‘You Are Here’ that I’d written on it. And the point of the show was people went through various things to get to the canvas and then they reacted to it. The whole point of the show was: that was the art. That was the happening – these people reacting to it.

John Lennon: acoustic guitar, vocal
David Spinozza: electric guitar
Ken Ascher: electric piano
Gordon Edwards: bass
Jim Keltner: drums
Engineered by Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero
Recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York
Out-Take Mix produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed by Paul Hicks and engineered by Sam Gannon.
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

#RSD24 #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2024 #mindgames #citizenofnutopia

Aisumasen (Im Sorry) (Ultimate Mix) on MIND GAMES vinyl-only 4 Track EP - for Record Store Day 2024

johnlennon 2024-04-20 | Exclusively in Record Shops for Record Store Day 20 April 2024
AISUMASEN (I'M SORRY) (ULTIMATE MIX)
David Spinozza: I wanted to do another guitar solo on that. I just remember John hitting the talkback and saying, ‘That’s the best guitar solo you ever played on anything!’ I was like, ‘can I try one more?’ (laughs). I really like the remodelling. The sound of the guitar is so much better in these new mixes than it was on the original.

John Lennon: acoustic guitar, tambourine, vocals
David Spinozza: electric guitars
Sneaky Pete Kleinlow: pedal steel guitar
Ken Ascher: pianos, organ
Gordon Edwards: bass
Jim Keltner: drums
Engineered by Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero, Richie Apuzzo
Recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York
Ultimate Mix produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed by Paul Hicks and engineered by Sam Gannon.
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

#RSD24 #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2024 #mindgames #citizenofnutopia

Im The Greatest (Ultimate Mix) on MIND GAMES vinyl-only 4 Track EP - for Record Store Day 2024

johnlennon 2024-04-20 | Exclusively in Record Shops for Record Store Day 20 April 2024
I'M THE GREATEST (ULTIMATE MIX)
John: It’s the Muhammad Ali line, you know. I couldn’t sing it, but it was perfect for Ringo. He could say ‘I’m the greatest’ and people wouldn’t get upset. Whereas if I said ‘I’m the greatest,’ they’d all take it so seriously.

John Lennon : vocals, piano
George Harrison : electric guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
Klaus Voormann : bass
Produced by Richard Perry
Engineered by Bill Schnee
Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
Ultimate Mix produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed by Paul Hicks and engineered by Sam Gannon.
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

#RSD24 #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2024 #mindgames #citizenofnutopia

Mind Games (Ultimate Mix) on MIND GAMES vinyl-only 4 Track EP - for Record Store Day 2024

johnlennon 2024-04-20 | Exclusively in Record Shops for Record Store Day 20 April 2024
MIND GAMES (ULTIMATE MIX)
John: That was a fun track because the voice is in stereo and the seeming orchestra on it is just me playing three notes with slide guitar. On ‘Mind Games’ it’s a Mellotron, on ‘Imagine’ it’s an orchestra. And the middle eight is reggae. I was thinking of it in terms of guerilla warfare. It’s just like inside of a physical guerilla. A ‘mind’ guerilla – a conceptual guerilla. It was originally called ‘Make Love Not War’.

Yoko: John was trying to convey the message that we all play mind games. But if we can play mind games, why not make a positive future with it – to play a positive mind game? ‘Mind Games’ is such an incredibly strong song. At the time, people didn’t quite get the message because this was before its time. Now, people would understand it. I don’t think in those days people knew they were playing mind games anyway.

John Lennon: Clavinet, tambourine, maracas, Mellotron, slide guitar, vocals
David Spinozza: electric guitar
Ken Ascher: pianos, organ, reed organ
Gordon Edwards: bass
Jim Keltner: drums
Produced by John Lennon
Engineered by Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero, Richie Apuzzo
Recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York
Ultimate Mix produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed by Paul Hicks and engineered by Sam Gannon.
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

#RSD24 #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2024 #mindgames #citizenofnutopia

Become a CITIZEN OF NUTOPIA. Join us at citizenofnutopia.com

johnlennon 2024-04-02 | Join us at citizenofnutopia.com
Nutopia is an imaginary country created by John Lennon & Yoko Ono in 1973. Nutopia is a conceptual nation that exists only in your mind, without borders, founded on Love and open to everyone. The national flag is a white flag of Surrender. It is an art piece dedicated to promoting the ideas of Peace and Love that were made famous by the song 'Imagine'.

John & Yoko announce the Declaration of Nutopia at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 W44th St, New York, 2 April 1973.

Yoko: In 1973 in New York City, John and I invited the press to announce the founding of a conceptual country called Nutopia. Anybody could be a citizen of this country. Citizens were automatically the country’s ambassadors. The country’s body was the airfield of our joint thoughts. Its constitution was our love, and its spirit our dreams. We produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said, “This is a flag to Surrender to Peace.” Not 'Fight for Peace’, but 'Surrender to Peace’ was the important bit.

John: It’s a conceptual country. It has no land, there’s nothing to fight for, there’s no boundaries, there’s no lines to be drawn, no passports, only people. We’ve got a flag, but there are no laws. All the people of Nutopia are ambassadors. And citizenship is available by declaring your awareness of Nutopia. Once you say it, that’s it. The flag means surrender and submission and also you can blow your nose on it. (laughs)

Yoko: We wished that one day we would take the flag to the United Nations and place it alongside the other flags, as Nutopia was just another concept, such as France, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was not a concept founded to threaten any other. John had said that we were all ambassadors of Nutopia. And so we are. When you come to our apartment, you’ll see that there is a gold plaque on the kitchen door that says 'Nutopian Embassy'. John put it there. Strangely enough, now friends just like to come in from that door, and not the front door. It seems the plaque made the kitchen door our front door.

John: Nutopia was Yoko’s trip. I agree with her, so I wanted to do it as another John and Yoko event. We mean it. It’s not naive or anything like that. It’ll happen when it happens. If you say it enough, it’ll happen. If you don’t say it, it won’t. We do it on impulse or instinct, you know. We try and use our instincts, especially for these kind of things which we call 'Mind Games'. First of all, we put the thought out. And then we’ll follow it through to see... We’ll react to whatever the reaction is.

Become a Citizen of Nutopia at citizenofnutopia.com

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Sources:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Declaration Of Nutopia, written 1 April 1973, announced 2 April 1973.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Nutopia Press Conference, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 W44th St, New York, 2 April 1973.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono interview with Daniel Schechter, Harvard University, 3 June 1973.
John Lennon interview with Steve Peacock, Sounds magazine, 17 November 1973.
Yoko Ono, 'Surrender To Peace', New York Times, 25 December 1982.
Yoko Ono, 'On The Day of the Birth of Nutopia', imaginepeace.com, 1 April 2008.

Happy Mothers Day, Yoko!

johnlennon 2024-03-12 | Sean Ono Lennon wishes his mum Yoko Ono a 'Happy Mother's Day' as 'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko' wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’ is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s iconic anti-war holiday song ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker and exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon with music by Thomas Newman, the film has been created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.

WAR IS OVER! - Pre-Oscars interview with Sean, Dave and Brad

johnlennon 2024-03-12 | Sean Ono Lennon with Dave Mullins and Brad Booker from ElectroLeague talk to Ross King and Angelique Jackson from ITV http://warisover.com
Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’ is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s iconic anti-war holiday song ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker and exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon with music by Thomas Newman, the film has been created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko wins Academy Award for Best Animated Short

johnlennon 2024-03-12 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’ is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s iconic anti-war holiday song ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker and exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon with music by Thomas Newman, the film has been created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - A CONVERSATION

johnlennon 2024-03-01 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy this conversation from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”, during a discussion at the Museum of Tolerance with Director/Writer Dave Mullins, Producer Brad Booker and Executive Producer Sean Lennon. http://warisover.com
Winner of the 51st Annie Award for Best Short Subject.
Nominated for the 96th Academy® Awards for Best Animated Short.
#WARISOVER! #Animation #ShortFilm

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making Of CINEMATOGRAPHY

johnlennon 2024-02-29 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes CINEMATOGRAPHY featurette from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko".
Join Director/Writer Dave Mullins (ElectroLeague), Live-action Cinematographer Antonio Riestra, Digital Cinematographer David Scott (Wētā FX) and Animation Producer Sophie Cherry (Wētā FX) as they discuss the philosophy behind the visual storytelling and camera work.
#WARISOVER! #Animation #ShortFilm #FYC #Oscars2024

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making of The Sound

johnlennon 2024-02-28 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes SOUND featurette from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”.
Join Director/Writer Dave Mullins, Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Jack Whittaker (Formosa Group), and Re-Recording Mixer Duncan McRae (Formosa Group) as they discuss the style and approach for the sound and music.
#WARISOVER! #Animation #ShortFilm #FYC #Oscars2024

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making of - Wētā FX

johnlennon 2024-02-27 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes featurette from ElectroLeague and Wētā FX, the creative forces behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko". In this discussion, the filmmakers delve into how Wētā FX became involved and the seamless collaboration between the teams in bringing the film to life. Join Director/Writer Dave Mullins (ElectroLeague), Producer Brad Booker (ElectroLeague), Executive Producers Sean Ono Lennon and David Conley (Wētā FX), Visual Effect Supervisor (Wētā FX) Keith Miller, Animation Producer (Wētā FX) Sophie Cherry, Digital Cinematographer (Wētā FX) David Scott, and Animation Supervisor (Wētā FX) Aidan Martin.
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WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making of - THE LOOK

johnlennon 2024-02-26 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy the second behind the scenes featurette from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko".
Join Director/Writer Dave Mullins, Production Designer Zac Retz, Character Designer Max Narciso, Visual Effects Supervisor (Wētā FX) Keith Miller and Supervising and Lead Colorist David Cole, as they discuss the look and visual style of the film.
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WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making of - ORIGINS

johnlennon 2024-02-25 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy the first behind the scenes featurette from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko".
Join Director/Writer Dave Mullins, Producer Brad Booker and Executive Producer Sean Ono Lennon as they delve into the inception of their creative process.
#WARISOVER! #Animation #ShortFilm #FYC #Oscars2024

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Making of - MUSIC

johnlennon 2024-02-24 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes MUSIC featurette from ElectroLeague, the studio behind "WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko".
In this in depth discussion about bringing the film to life with music, join Director/Writer Dave Mullins, Producer Brad Booker, Executive Producers Sean Ono Lennon and Karen Dufilho, Composer Thomas Newman and Music Supervisor Vicki Hiatt as they discuss their collaboration and inspiration for the music.
#WARISOVER! #Animation #ShortFilm #FYC #Oscars2024

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - New 30 sec trailer

johnlennon 2024-02-02 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
This anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins features John & Yoko's iconic anti-war holiday song 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and is directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker, exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon and created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games. #WARISOVER

WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - 30 sec trailer

johnlennon 2024-01-17 | Watch the full-length film in theatres in USA & Canada: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/tickets
Winner of the OSCAR for Best Animated Short at the 96th Academy® Awards and winner of the Annie Animation Award for Best Short Subject. http://warisover.com
'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko' is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko's iconic anti-war holiday song 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over). This eleven-minute short animated film was directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker, exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon and created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.

The Beatles Now And Then trailer

johnlennon 2023-10-26 | NOW AND THEN. THE LAST BEATLES SONG. 2 Nov 23. #nowandthen
→ https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/NowAndThen
EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 10 Nov 23.🔴🔵
→ https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/RedAndBlue2023
'Now And Then' is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later.

On 2nd November, 'Now And Then' will be released worldwide at 2pm GMT/10am EDT / 7am PDT.
Pre-order/pre-save 'Now And Then' in a variety of digital, vinyl, and cassette editions, including Beatles Store exclusives.

A 12-minute documentary film will debut on 1st November on The Beatles’ YouTube channel
at 7:30pm GMT / 3:30pm EDT / 12:30pm PDT
telling the story behind the last Beatles song, with exclusive footage and commentary from John, Paul, Ringo, George, Sean Ono Lennon and Peter Jackson.

EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 🔴🔵
→ https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/RedAndBlue2023
On 10th November, The Beatles’ ‘1962-1966’ (The Red Album) and ‘1967-1970’ (The Blue Album) collections will be released in 2023 Edition packages with expanded tracklists.

All the songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and new 4CD and 180g 6LP vinyl collections pair ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ in slipcased sets. Digital, CD, and vinyl available to pre-order/pre-save now, including some you’ll only find in The Beatles Store.

Imagine (Evolution Mix) - The story of the song. (4K)

johnlennon 2023-10-09 | IMAGINE (THE ULTIMATE MIXES, DELUXE).
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Faithfully remixed from the ground up by triple Grammy® Award winning engineer Paul Hicks at Abbey Road Studios under the supervision of Yoko Ono Lennon, using high-definition 24-96 audio transfers of the original first generation multi-track recordings, these Ultimate Mixes reveal whole new levels of sonic depth, definition and clarity, especially in Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos.

IMAGINE (THE ELEMENTS MIXES).
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The Elements Mixes use a few simple elements from the multitrack recordings, that reveal even deeper levels of detail and clarity in the sources used for the master mixes that were buried or mono-ed, now opened up and presented on a wider, clearer and brighter sound stage.

IMAGINE (THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY).
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The story of each song on a journey from demo to master via instructions, rehearsals, recordings, multitrack exploration and studio chat.

IMAGINE (THE RAW STUDIO MIXES).
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Experience, in Stereo and immersive Spatial/Dolby Atmos, the moment John and The Plastic Ono Band record each song, raw and live, from a sonic soundstage at the centre of Ascot Sound Studios at John & Yoko’s home in Tittenhurst. The musicians are positioned in the identical 3D space around you as they were when they recorded the track - with you sat in the centre of the studio.

IMAGINE (THE OUT-TAKES).
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Out-takes from the album and singles sessions, faithfully mixed in a style similar to the originals.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO!

johnlennon 2023-02-17 | wishtreeforyokoono.com 🏷️🌲✨♥️
To celebrate Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday on 18 February 2023, Sean Ono Lennon has made a virtual ‘Wish Tree’ for people all over the world to post their wishes online and (in association with One Tree Planted) plant real trees in Yoko’s honor. We hope to gather as many wishes and plant as many trees as possible to honor this incredible woman.

The website launches publicly on Yoko’s birthday, 18 Feb 2023, at www.wishtreeforyokoono.com. Please share this link with your friends and followers. To find out more about Yoko’s original ‘Wish Tree’ installations and the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, her tribute to John, go to imaginepeacetower.com.

‘Wish Tree for Yoko Ono’ has been realised by James Swindells and Loud Beings for Sean Ono Lennon.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO! www.wishtreeforyokoono.com Make a wish. Plant a tree. 🏷️🌲✨♥️

johnlennon 2023-02-17 | ...

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (Ultimate Mix) music video from Bed Peace film closing sequence 4K

johnlennon 2022-11-14 | Watch the whole of the Bed Peace film here: youtube.com/watch?v=mRjjiOV003Q

REVOLVER. REMIXED AND REMASTERED → OUT NOW.

johnlennon 2022-10-28 | Order now → https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/Revolver2022

Special Editions Are OUT NOW! ’Revolver' is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide, in a range of beautifully presented, newly-mixed and expanded Special Edition packages.

The new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes, is brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting edge de-mixing technology developed by Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd.

“‘Revolver’ box set blows the lid off” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
“the remixed Revolver is a revelation” - SALON
"Revolver predicted the future, and the future kept on playing catch-up.” GQ Magazine
“Revolver sparks the revolution - and the after-shocks are still rumbling today” Sunday Times Culture

Showcasing GRAMMY-winning original album artwork created by Klaus Voormann, the Super Deluxe CD and vinyl house a beautiful book featuring Paul McCartney’s foreword, an introduction by Giles Martin, an enlightening essay by Questlove, and insightful chapters by Kevin Howlett.

Available across 5CD/4LP Super Deluxe, 2CD Deluxe, Picture Disk, 1LP, 1CD, Download and Streaming. Dolby Atmos Mixes + original mono mix accompany never-before-released session recordings and demos, plus the “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” EP.

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream…

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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Twitter Listening Party Aftershow

johnlennon 2022-05-25 | Celebrating the release of JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND The Ultimate Collection, joining BBC Radio6 Music's Chris Hawkins in conversation are Sean Ono Lennon, bassist Klaus Voormann, engineer & producer John Leckie, personal assistant Dan Richter, Ultimate Mixes mixer & engineer Paul Hicks, producer Simon Hilton and Listening Party host Tim Burgess.

Originally broadcast as a Twitter Spaces Event at 9pm on 24 April 2021.

Replay the Twitter Listening Party for JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND: bit.ly/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand
Buy the 2021 Box Set: johnlennon.lnk.to/PlasticOnoBand2021

Listen to the IMAGINE Film Aftershow with Sean Ono Lennon in conversation with bassist Klaus Voormann, drummer Alan White, friend Elliot Mintz, activist Tariq Ali, cameraman Nic Knowland, assistant Dan Richter, mixer Paul Hicks, productions manager Simon Hilton and Tim Burgess, hosted by Chris Hawkins from BBC6 Music: youtu.be/yEWUuRPL5hU

Discover more at http://johnlennon.com

John & Yokos IMAGINE film Listening Party Aftershow w Sean Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White +more

johnlennon 2021-09-15 | Celebrating the 50th anniversary of IMAGINE, joining BBC Radio6 Music's Chris Hawkins in conversation are Sean Ono Lennon, bassist Klaus Voormann, drummer Alan White, DJ & PR Elliot Mintz, activist & writer Tariq Ali, cameraman Nic Knowland, personal assistant Dan Richter, Ultimate Mixes mixer & engineer Paul Hicks, producer Simon Hilton and Listening Party host Tim Burgess.

Originally broadcast as a Twitter Spaces Event at 8:40pm on 9 September 2021.

Replay the 9 Sept Twitter Listening Party for IMAGINE: bit.ly/ImagineLP
Watch the Remastered film: johnlennon.lnk.to/Imagine-Film
Buy the 2018 Box Set: johnlennon.lnk.to/ImagineTheUltimateCollection
2021 Ltd Edition 2LP White Vinyl: johnlennon.lnk.to/Imagine-White-2LPEM

Listen to the JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND album Listening Party Aftershow with Sean Ono Lennon in conversation with Klaus Voormann, John Leckie, Dan Richter, Paul Hicks, Simon Hilton and Tim Burgess, hosted by Chris Hawkins from BBC6 Music: youtu.be/EnoOjeJQYnA

Discover more at http://johnlennon.com

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

johnlennon 2021-09-11 | Imagine all the people living life in peace.

A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS.

johnlennon 2021-06-18 | John reading 'The General Erection' & "The Wumberlog (Or The Magic Dog)' and interviewed by Kenneth Allsop on BBC's Tonight Show on 18 June 1965.

WE MUST NOT FORGET THE GENERAL ERECTION, 1965. (excerpt)
Azue orl gnome, Harassed Wilsod won the General Erection, with a very small marjorie over the Torchies. Thus pudding the Laboring Partly back into powell after a large abcess. This he could not have done withoutspan the barking of thee Trade Onions, heady by Frenk Cunnings (who noun has a SAFE SEAT in Nuneating thank you and Fronk (only 62) Bowels hasn’t). Sir Alice Doubtless-Whom was – quote – ‘bitherly dithapointed’ but managed to keep smirking on his 500,000 acre estate in Scotland with a bit of fishing and that.

THE WUMBERLOG (OR THE MAGIC DOG), 1965. (excerpt)
Whilst all the tow was sleepy ⠀
Crept a little boy from bed ⠀
To fained the wondrous peoble ⠀
Wot lived when they were dead. ⠀
⠀
He packed a little voucher ⠀
For his dinner 'neath a tree. ⠀
'Perhumps a tiny dwarf or two ⠀
Would share abite with me? ⠀
⠀
'Perchamp I'll see the Wumberlog ⠀
The highly feathered crow, ⠀
The larfing leaping Harristweed ⠀
And good old Uncle Joe.' ⠀
⠀
He packed he very trunkase, ⠀
Clean sockers for a week, ⠀
His book and denzil for his notes, ⠀
Then out the windy creep. ⠀
⠀
He met him friendly magic dog, ⠀
All black and curlew too, ⠀
Wot flew him fast in second class ⠀
To do wot he must do. ⠀
⠀
Q: Mr. Lennon, your first book is a bestseller and I shouldn't see any doubt this one's going to be, too. Do you think that you'd be published were you not a Beatle?

John: I could probably get published but, you know, I wouldn't sell as many. I mean, they publish a lot of rubbish anyway. But I wouldn't sell.

Q: Do you think you've got a built-in advantage in being a Beatle? I mean, are you glad about this, or would you rather have earned the reputation as a writer in your own right?

John: No, I mean, I never thought of it. If I hadn't been a Beatle I just wouldn't have thought of having the stuff published because I would've been crawling around, broke, and just writing it and throwing it away. I might've been a Beat poet (laughs).

Q: How did it come about that you weren't a Beat poet and that your first book was published?

John: Well, some American who shall remain nameless, who's called Michael Brown, I showed him the stuff and he took it to the publisher, and they published it. That was it.

Q: Did you ever think of publishing it under a pseudonym, not as John Lennon?

John: I thought of that but what's the use? Because he took it to the publisher first without telling them who it was just to see if they would've published it. That answers your first question as well.

Q: It does indeed, yes. Living in, you know, the butterfly world of Pop as a Beatle, do you find that this undermines people's serious acceptance of you as a writer?

John: It does. But I didn't really expect them to take me seriously, so, you know, there's nothing to say about that. They do take it more seriously than I thought, so that's good enough for me.

Q: Indeed. I mean, the first book was reviewed in the posh Sunday (paper)s and on the other side of the fence your music is recorded by people like Ella Fitzgerald. Now this is serious recognition in both areas. Which do you find more satisfying?

John: Well er, the book, really. It means more to other people that Ella Fitzgerald recorded one of our tunes than it does to us, because the tune is still something that Paul and I have written. So we still have the same faith in it. It just gives other people more faith in the tune.

Q: This book is very similar to the first in being bits and pieces of poems, and bits of prose. Do you think you'd ever want anything longer? A novel, for example.

John: Well, I tried writing... The longest thing I've written is in this book. It's one about Sherlock Holmes, and it seemed like a novel to me but it turned out to be six pages (smiles). But I don't think I could... I couldn't do it, you know. I get fed-up. And I wrote so many characters in, I forgot who they were.

Q: This happens to other writers, too.

JOHN: (smiles) "Hmmm. Other writers! Good.

Q: The Pop business is a young man's world. It seems to have an ever increasingly young audience. Do you think that perhaps writing a book like this, and writing at all, perhaps might be an unconscious attempt to win recognition in the adult world?

John: No, because I started all this writing long before I was a Pop artist, or even a Beatle, or before I had a guitar. So it's nothing to do with that. The guitars came second. Second.

Q: And which comes first?

John: Well, now the guitars come first. because this is still a hobby, which it always has been.

Q: You're going on doing it, are you?

John: I'll go on doing it.

Q: Have you written anything else? Is anythng else coming off of this?

John: Well, uhh, I don't get much time. If I had more time I'd probably write more.

Gimme Some Truth (live vocal out-take)

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Watch '1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything' on Apple TV+ → http://bit.ly/1971tytmce
⬇⬇⬇ABOUT GIMME SOME TRUTH⬇⬇⬇
John: Side Two (of the Imagine album) starts with “Give Me Some Truth” which is one I started a year or two back - probably in India. We wrote a lot there. It was an old lick that I had around a long time but I again changed the lyrics. I like the track because it sounds good but it didn’t get much attention, so it’s a personal track that I like the sound of. The guitars are good and the voice sounds nice and, you know, and it says whatever it says. George does a sharp solo with his steel finger (he’s not to proud of it - but I like it).

It’s about politicians, newspaper men and all the hypocrites of the world. And male chauvinists, it’s about them too. I think that music reflects the state that the society is in. There is nothing to hide. Not really. I mean, we all like to shit in private and we certainly have things we prefer to do in private, privately. But in general what is there to hide? I mean, what is the big secret?

I think it’s like this whole game of the press. When the whole drug thing came out about the Beatles, what actually happened was the press cornered Paul one day with the TV cameras and all the press and asked him, “have you taken LSD?” And he said “yes”. And they said, “don’t you think that you have a responsibility to society?” And he said, “yes I do, and so do you, so please don’t publish this or print it.” And they had it on every newscast that night with him saying, “please dont publish it.” Now what the hypocrisy of the press is like, what I was saying about the News Of The World is they’re always going on about other people’s responsibilities and pop stars selling sex to people when they’re the ones keeping the whole mill rolling. They have as much responsibility as us so called ‘stars’ and that was a prime example.

There was a famous picture of me in one of the Beatle Books and it said, ‘No phoney politician is ever going to get through to me.” That still stands, although I dabbled in so called “politics” in the late 60’s and 70’s. More out of guilt for being rich and guilty, thinking that maybe perhaps love and peace isn’t enough, that to have to go and get shot or something, or get punched in the face, to prove I’m one of the people.

I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. And I think that’s what I sussed when I was 16 and 12, way down the line. But I expressed it differently all through my life. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government etcetera and the Russian, Chinese - what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane but I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Somebody comes along with a good piece of truth and instead of the truth being looked at, they look at the person that brought it. It’s like when the bad news comes, they shoot the messenger. When the good news comes, they worship the messenger and they don’t listen to the message - whether it be Christianity, Mohammadism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Marxism, Maoism, everything. It’s always about the person and never about what they said.

My function in society is to be an artist. The artist’s function is to be as true to himself (and therefore the people he communicates with through his art) as he can, and survive. Art is a functional part of society. If you don’t have artists, you don’t have society. We’re not some kind of decadent strip show that appears on the side. We’re as important as prime ministers or policemen.

Register to Vote. If you register to vote, it doesn’t mean you have to vote. At least you have it. And then if there’s somebody around that you can believe in, you’ve got that vote. But if you don’t register and it comes, and you wanna do something, you’ve missed it. Because there’s one inch in which we breathe differently between the two parties. And everybody’s saying they’re all the same. They are all the same, but there’s one inch in which they let you breathe.

John Lennon: Electric guitars and vocals
George Harrison: Lead electric slide guitar
Nicky Hopkins: Electric piano
John Tout: Steinway Upright Piano
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Alan White: Drums
Rod Lynton & Andy Davis: Acoustic guitars

Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector
Engineers: Phil McDonald and Eddie Klein, Ascot Sound Studios
Recorded 25 May 1971
Master Vocal and slide guitar solo recorded 28 May 1971

Find out more: http://johnlennon.com

COLD TURKEY. (Ultimate Remix, 2020) - Plastic Ono Band (Original 1969 Music Video, Restored 4K)

johnlennon 2021-05-18 | JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - SUPER DELUXE BOX SET. Out now → johnlennon.lnk.to/PlasticOnoBand2021

Original footage of John & Yoko's Montreal Bed-In and New York filmed by Jonas Mekas, with inserts of John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band performing 'Cold Turkey' live at Varsity Stadium in 1969, directed by D.A. Pennebaker. First released 1969; restored to 4K, 2021.

John: 'It's a strange story because when we were in Montreal, (Yoko's friend from New York) Jonas Mekas – who some people will know is like the Daddy of underground films – was making these quick clips of us. We didn't know what he was making. Now we can see it, you know. And then he sent it to us in England with a message which we never received – somebody opened the packet saying, 'Play this with "Give Peace A Chance"' because we were doing the Bed-In in Montreal and he was filming that.

But we were looking around for a bit of film to show with 'Cold Turkey', like a promo film for the pop shows in England. And so we just tried it and we just put on his film with the record and it just went 'bam bam!' - it just fitted so well. The timing and the length and everything was so extraordinary that we said "that's it!" So I don't know whether you'd be disappointed that it's not with 'Give Peace A Chance' but 'Cold Turkey' is the message on this.'

(interview at Ronnie Hawkins's Farm, Mississauga, Canada, 18 December 1969)

COLD TURKEY.
Temperature’s rising, fever is high
Can’t see no future, can’t see no sky

My feet are so heavy, so is my head
I wish I was a baby, I wish I was dead
Cold turkey has got me on the run

My body is aching, goose-pimple bone
Can’t see nobody, leave me alone
My eyes are wide open, can’t get to sleep
One thing I’m sure of, I’m in at the deep freeze
Cold turkey has got me on the run
Cold turkey has got me on the run

Thirty-six hours rolling in pain
Praying to someone, 'free me again!'
'Oh I’ll be a good boy, please make me well
I promise you anything, get me out of this hell'
Cold turkey has got me on the run

Written by: John Lennon

John Lennon: vocals, guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
Eric Clapton: guitar
Klaus Voormann: bass guitar

Produced by John & Yoko (Bag)
Recording Engineers (EMI Studio 3, 25 Sept 1969): Phil McDonald, Andy Stevens
Overdub Engineers (Trident Studios, 28 Sept 1969): Ken Scott, Bill Trow, Dave Corlett
Mixing Engineers (EMI Studio 3, 29 Sept 1969): Phil McDonald, Tony Moan
Mixing Engineers (EMI Studio 3, 5 Oct 1969): Phil McDonald, Nick Webb

Single US: 20 October 1969
Single UK: 24 October 1969
Remixed by Paul Hicks, 2020.

Video first broadcast on BBC Top Of The Pops, 6 November 1969 and made available on VHS home video on the John Lennon Video Collection, 1992.

Hold On (Elements Mix) (Official Music Video 5K)

johnlennon 2021-05-07 | Watch and listen to 'Hold On' and take a couple of minutes break, to relax and breathe.
Hold On (Elements Mix) is from JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - SUPER DELUXE BOX SET. Out now → johnlennon.lnk.to/PlasticOnoBand2021

John: ‘Hold On John’ was just about holding on. Even though it’s not all that hot, let’s hold on. It’s only going to be all right – it’s now, this moment. That’s all right, this moment, and hold on, now.

We might have a cup of tea or we might get a moment’s happiness any minute now. So that’s what it’s all about, just moment by moment. That’s how we’re living – cherishing each day and dreading it, too. It might be your last day – you might get run over by a car.

I go through despair and hopefulness. I try and hang on to the hopeful bit. Otherwise, there’s just no point at all. I’m saying, ‘Hold on, John, it’s going to be alright’. Otherwise, I won’t hold on.

I think complete happiness is when you are a bit of electricity, when you’ve made the absolute. And then the concept of what we think of happiness, of just being, which is what happiness will be for all of us – is not to. And I’ve had that through meditation. Just a state where you are not aware of anything. So there you’ll be and that’s complete happiness. You just are. And that is the peace we’re looking for – is just to be. And nothing affects you, and you affect nothing, literally. You just are. The happiest people are the people that are ‘being’ more times a week than anybody else. And it’s just down to that.

When you are just ‘being’, there’s nothing hassling you, or not hassling, or anything. And that’s it. And you get it writing, and you can get it daydreaming, or I remember having it as a kid on a desk, or in the grass in the sun, just for a moment.

I believe that meditation is a kind of ‘found truth’. Don’t run on this path but walk on it. The only way is to recover space in your mind. All you need is mind control. You have nothing to lose to try it. It will not make you crazy, you don’t have to be more smart to do it. Even when you’re meditating and doing these things with the whole expressed purpose of getting into that state, you’ve got to practise it like you’d practise anything to stop being frightened when you get to the different levels you get to on meditation – you get to a plane thing and whoop! And you’re fighting it all the time! A whole time is spent to stop being frightened of nothing.

I think the world is on a trip. As humans, what we’re doing, we’ve been the tribal bit, childlike. And then we’re suddenly becoming aware of something and becoming self-conscious and going through all the hassles you go through being self-conscious, where you’re so self-conscious you can’t do anything. And then to come out of that is the next stage, which I think we’re going into, of being self-conscious but realizing that you can handle it. And that’s the breakthrough. We’ve become too self-conscious of it and now we’ve got to put it in perspective. And we can have cars and tellies and that, but still get back to the spiritual bit, which is the bit we’ve missed out on. Becoming un-self-conscious.

I had some great experiences in India because I was meditating eight hours a day. It was the biggest trip I’ve ever had in my life. You just sit there and let your mind go. It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking about, just let it go. And then you introduce the mantra, the vibration, to take over from the thought. You don’t will it or use your will power. There’s none of this sitting in the lotus position or standing on your head. You just do it as long as you like.

Yoko: Love is the energy that is really moving the whole world. Love is the creative energy and prayer is the poor man’s weapon. With prayer and love we can really create the world. Please send out the strongest energy of love, peace and belief to the world.

Relax. Breathe in and out. It is important to have time when you are just relaxing. You are in the present moment. The present moment seems like a little dot. But that dot carries the human history of past, present and future and all of the people and things you love. Don’t waste your time worrying about things. Whatever will be, will be. And know that everything is a blessing if you let it be. A daydream, given the time, always comes true.

'Hold On' Take 32 recorded at EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, 30 September 1970
Written by John Lennon
John Lennon: guitar and quadruple tracked vocals
Produced by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Recording Engineers: Phil McDonald & John Leckie

Elements Mix (2021)
Mixed and Engineered by Paul Hicks
Produced by Yoko Ono
Compilation Producer: Simon Hilton
Additional Engineering: Sam Gannon
Mastering Engineer: Simon Gibson
Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album cover photograph by Dan Richter, 1970
Photoshop restoration & editing: Simon Hilton
Animation by David Frearson
Produced by Yoko Ono, 2021.

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ISOLATION. (Raw Studio Mix) - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (5K Official Music Video)

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↓↓↓ Timed Easter Eggs ↓↓↓ Filmed upstairs at John & Yoko's home, Tittenhurst Park, 16 July 1971.

0:00 John & Yoko's Master Bedroom
0:11 Yoko's book 'Grapefruit' (1971)
0:13 Telephone, books, record player, cowboy boots
0:26 Various artworks
0:32 Grapefruit, A Box of Smile (1971)
0:34 The Polaroid 'Big Shot' camera Yoko used to take the Imagine album cover photo, radio, telephone
0:36 Film projector with reels of film and audio on the shelves
0:40 Record player and records including Two Virgins (1968)
0:47 Yoko's vintage chinoiserie desk
0:55 John's bedroom composing piano - upon which 'Imagine' and many other songs were written
1:00 Two of John's Mona Lisas (on the floor) and Yoko's Add Colour Painting (1966) (on the wall)
1:03 Bathroom
1:05 Salvador Dali picture above the toilet
1:12 Dressing Room 1
1:17 Some of John's guitar cases
1:29 Laughing Buddha
1:36 Apple Corps paperweight
1:40 Dressing Room 2
1:43 Secret mirrored door
2:00 Julian's Bedroom
2:07 Stairwell
2:10 Five Steamer Trunks
2:11 Kitchenette
2:11 Tiffany lamp, switchboard phone on the floor
2:12 Short stairs up to John & Yoko's bedroom
2:14 Balcony
2:26 Dovecote
2:37 Dressing Room & Spare Bedroom
2:52 Tall window to John & Yoko's bedroom
Directed by John & Yoko. Camera: Nic Knowland.

ISOLATION / Take 29 recorded EMI Studio 3, Abbey Road, 6 Oct 1970.
written by John Lennon
John Lennon: piano, organ, vocals
Ringo Starr: drums
Klaus Voormann: bass
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector.

Raw Studio Mixes mixed by Rob Stevens , 2020.
Engineered by Sayyd Droullard, Grandma’s Place.
Additional Engineering: Paul Goodrich, Merlin Studios and Sam Gannon, REVL8.

Rob Stevens: In the Raw Studio Mix of 'Isolation', the inhalation and exhalation prior to the vocal have an uncanny, almost eerily similar gravitas to the same, prior to the master take of ‘Imagine’.

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Featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voormann, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Alan White and Phil Spector.
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132 Page Hardback Book With Rare Photos, Memorabilia and Extensive Notes.
WAR IS OVER! Poster and 2 Postcards.
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INSTANT KARMA! (Ultimate Mix) - Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono Band. Version 2. HD Remaster, 2021.

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INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON)
Instant Karma’s gonna get you. Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together. Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of? Laughing in the face of love
What on Earth you trying to do? It’s up to you. Yeah you!

Instant Karma’s gonna get you. Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darling. Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see? Laughing at fools like me
Who on Earth d’you think you are? A superstar? Well right you are!

Well we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on. Everyone come on!

Instant Karma’s gonna get you. Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognise your brothers. Everyone you meet
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there? When you’re everywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on, like the moons and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on, come on and on and on on on

Yeah yeah alright. Uh huh ahh

Well we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on. On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on like the moons and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on

INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON). (ULTIMATE MIX).
Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono Band
Written by: John Lennon
John Lennon: vocals, piano
George Harrison: acoustic guitar, piano
Klaus Voormann: bass guitar, electric piano
Billy Preston: organ
Alan White: drums, piano
Mal Evans: backing vocals, chimes, handclaps
Yoko Ono, Allen Klein and others: backing vocals.
Produced by Phil Spector
Engineers: Phil McDonald, Andy Stephens
Recorded: 27 Jan 1970 , Studio 3, EMI Recording Studios, 3 Abbey Road, London, UK
Single UK: 6 Feb 1970
Single US: 20 Feb 1970

Ultimate Mix 2020
Executive Producer: Yoko Ono Lennon
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon
Remixed and Engineered by Paul Hicks
Assisted by Sam Gannon
Mastered by Alex Wharton
Compilation Producer & Production Manager: Simon Hilton

Video: John & The Plastic Ono Band, filmed for BBC 1's "Top of the Pops" on 11 February 1970.

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Give Peace A Chance (demo) - John & Yoko, Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, 25 May 1969 (5K Music Video)

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Before famously recording their legendary pacifist anthem “Give Peace A Chance” at their Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on 31 May 1969, John Lennon & Yoko Ono rehearsed an early version of the song while at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel in the Bahamas just days before, on 25 May.

The performance, which was captured by the Lennon's film cameraman Nic Knowland and sound recordist Mike Lax, has never been released until now and is the earliest known recording of the song.

The video features John humorously ad-libbing lyrics for the verses before being joined by Yoko for the memorable chorus that became an anti-war anthem for a generation and which remains an enduring protest song more than 50 years later.

Originally set for New York, the second Bed-In was relocated to the Bahamas after John & Yoko were denied entrance into the U.S. because of John's 1968 cannabis conviction. However, due to the layout of the hotel and the sweltering Bahamian heat, the couple flew to Toronto the following day and eventually settled in Montreal, chosen for its close proximity to New York and the American press, which they were hoping to use to get the attention of President Nixon.

The couple holed up in the hotel for a week where they gave unlimited access and endless interviews, in order that their extended honeymoon serve as a “commercial for peace.” The event culminated with the recording of John’s first solo single and the first to be credited to the Plastic Ono Band, “Give Peace A Chance.”

Surrounded by fans, Hare Krishnas and having spent the week with a host of notable friends and celebrities like LSD advocate Timothy Leary, singer Petula Clark, disc jockey Murray The K, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory and comedian Tommy Smothers, who accompanied on acoustic guitar, John and Yoko performed the song in bed, dressed in their pyjamas and helped provide the soundtrack to a revolution.

Released just a month later in July 1969, backed with Yoko’s “Remember Love,” recorded that same night after their guests had left, the single reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 14 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, giving John his first hit outside of The Beatles.

Although originally credited to Lennon-McCartney due to his publishing agreemeent with Paul, John later revealed the song was written by him and Yoko and that she should have received the co-writing credit.

John said one of his proudest moments was when Peter Seeger led a crowd of over 500,000 protesters in singing a ten-minute version of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ at the Vietnam moratorium in Washington DC on 15 November 1969. http://bit.ly/vmoratorium

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. (Home Demo)
Written and performed by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
© Sony /ATV Music Publishing LLC
℗ Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group)

Directed & Produced by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1969
Film Cameraman: Nic Knowland, 1969
Sound Recordist: Mike Lax, 1969
Audio remastered by Sam Gannon, 2021
Visual restoration by David Frearson, 2021
Editor & Production Manager Simon Hilton, 2021

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INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON) - Evolution Mix (4K).

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An exploration of the recording session of ten takes on multitrack, featuring John Lennon, George Harrison, Klaus Voormann, Billy Preston, Alan White, Phil Spector and Yoko Ono at Studio Three, EMI Studios, 3 Abbey Road, London, on 27 January 1970.

THE EVOLUTION MIXES - DOCUMENTARY
The Evolution Mixes are mini-documentaries that explore the development of each song through their elements, arrangements and the musicians that play on them. Edited down from all the original 8-track multitracks, quarter-inch live recordings and mixes and a few demo cassettes by Sam Gannon, generally each Evolution Mix runs through each song’s sessions chronologically, starting with the demos and/or early takes and ending with the final mixes; documenting their creative journey from inspiration to finished work, exploring different, sometimes hidden parts of the multitracks and including all the best method, magic, craftsmanship and conversation during the development of the songs. Throughout the sessions, there is a sense of lightness and joviality that contrasts the heavy and, at times, very intense themes which run through much of the album. These mixes provide a window into that world, putting the listener in the center of the studio with John, Yoko, Phil and the Plastic Ono Band.
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LOOK AT ME. (Ultimate Mix, 2021) - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (4K Official Music Video)

johnlennon 2021-04-01 | On 9th June 1968, at John’s home ‘Kenwood’ in Weybridge, Surrey, John & Yoko began a collaborative period of creative film-making that would end up lasting four years, beginning with two films called ‘Film No. 5’ (‘Smile’) (conceived by Yoko) and ‘Two Virgins’ (conceived by John & Yoko) that would premiere at the Chicago Film Festival later that year. The filming involved specialist high-speed 16mm cameras (in those days mainly used for filming scientific experiments) operated by William Wareing and his team.

For ‘Film No. 5’ (‘Smile’), the magic of John smiling is captured in ultra slow motion (with the film running through the camera at ultra high-speed), and for ‘Two Virgins’, they filmed with a different high-speed camera and used a trick that John had employed when filming with his Standard 8 cameras of rewinding all the film and running it through the camera a second time, to double expose the negative. They filmed John’s face, rewound the film and then filmed Yoko’s face, creating in-camera superimpositions of their faces merging.

Excerpts from these two films can be seen in the music video ‘Number 9 Dream’. youtu.be/7zZsKOvXiFo

Between takes, Wareing also filmed three rolls of ‘home movie’ Standard 8 film – one in black and white, the other two in colour.

We see John & Yoko in the sun room, where John sat playing a nylon stringed guitar, and where, among other things, you can see John’s drum skin from the Sgt Pepper album cover (designed by Joe Ephgrave) and his psychedelic upright piano (painted by Marijke Koger and Simon Posthuma from Dutch design collective, The Fool) and, with most success, around the swimming pool, where Yoko dances and John plays a steel string acoustic guitar.

We also see John & Yoko in the kitchen, where John pets their black cat, Salt (the white one was called Pepper) and Yoko prepares some food.

These Standard 8 film reels are presented here, side-by-side, for the first time, accompanied by John’s song ‘Look At Me‘ from the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection album.

LOOK AT ME
Look at me
Who am I supposed to be?
Who am I supposed to be?

Look at me
What am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?

Look at me
Oh, my love
Oh, my love

Here I am
What am I supposed to do?
What am I supposed to do?

Here I am
What can I do for you?
What can I do for you?

Here I am
Oh, my love
Oh, my love

Look at me
Oh, please look at me, my love
Here I am
Oh, my love

Who am I?
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows but me

Who am I?
Nobody else can see
Just you and me
Who are we?

Oh, my love
Oh, my love

Written by John Lennon © Lenono Music
John Lennon: guitar and vocals
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector
Recorded at EMI Studio 2, 3 Abbey Road, London, 18 October 1970.

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ITLL BE ME (JAM). - JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND

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Featuring half of The Beatles: John Lennon: Vertegrand piano & vocals + Ringo Starr: drums; PLUS Klaus Voormann: bass + Billy Preston: piano. Recorded in Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios on John's birthday 9th October 1970.
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JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION. DELUXE BOX SET.

johnlennon 2021-03-04 | Order now at johnlennon.lnk.to/PlasticOnoBand2021. Featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voormann, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Alan White and Phil Spector. Completely Remixed from the original multitracks, containing Ultimate Mixes, Out-Takes, Elements, Raw Studio and Evolution Mixes; Demos, Jams and Yoko Ono Live Sessions.

SUPER DELUXE BOX SET CONTAINS:
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132 Page Hardback Book With Rare Photos, Memorabilia and Extensive Notes.
WAR IS OVER! Poster and 2 Postcards.
Also Available: 2 CD, 1 CD, 2 LP, Download and Streaming.

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LOVE. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band → The story behind the song. (4K Official Video).

johnlennon 2021-02-14 | The story behind the song, in the words of John & Yoko - for Valentine's Day 2021.
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Filming locations:
Battery Park, New York, 4 Sept 1971.
South Beach, Staten Island with the Verrazano-Narrows bridge in the background, 10 Sept 1971.
Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York, 26 Nov 1980.

HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER). (Ultimate Mix, 2020) John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band + Harlem Community Choir

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HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)
Happy Xmas, Kyoko, Happy Xmas, Julian
So this is Xmas and what have you done
Another year over and a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas, I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one, the old and the young
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear

And so this is Xmas (War is over)
For weak and for strong (If you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (War is over)
The world is so wrong (Now)
And so happy Xmas (War is over)
For black and for white (If you want it)
For yellow and red ones (War is over)
Let’s stop all the fight (Now)
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear

And so this is Xmas (War is over)
And what have we done (If you want it)
Another year over (War is over)
A new one just begun (Now)
And so happy Xmas (War is over)
We hope you have fun (If you want it)
The near and the dear one (War is over)
The old and the young (Now)
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear
War is over if you want it, war is over now

written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

John: When we stick posters around saying, 'WAR IS OVER if you want it', what we’re trying to promote is an awareness in people of how much power they have – and not to rely on the government or leaders or teachers so much that they’re all passive or automatons. They have to have New Hope. Everybody’s looking for goals and answers; the youth especially. What we’re trying to tell them is that “YOU are the goal. Nobody on earth can do it for you. Whatever it is you want, you must do it yourself.” - John Lennon, 1969

Yoko: Dear Friends, the 'WAR IS OVER! if you want it' campaign was once a tiny seed, which spread and covered the Earth. John and I believed it helped many people to stop their wars. Since then, every 'WAR IS OVER! if you want it' campaign has impacted the world as powerfully as the first one. Start yours tomorrow, and you will see that it spreads and covers the world very fast and, meanwhile, makes you a Small Pebble Person. Small Pebble People are people who know that small pebbles, when they’re dropped in the ocean, will immediately affect the ocean of the whole wide world. Don’t throw a big stone. It scares people and creates repercussions. Just drop a small pebble. We’ll keep doing it. Together. That’s how the world gets changed…by Small Pebble People. We change, and the world changes.Happy Holidays. I love you! - Yoko Ono Lennon, 2019

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Video from The John Lennon Video Collection (1991), Remastered 2020.
Executive Producer: Yoko Ono Lennon
Produced & Directed by Gerard Meola
Camera: Marco North & Paul Gibson
Editor: John LaSala
Photographs of John, Yoko & Sean in the snow: Nishi F. Saimuru © Yoko Ono Lennon
Contains excerpts from the film 'Imagine' directed by John & Yoko, cameraman: Bob Fries.
Music Video @ Yoko Ono Lennon

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Special Interviews: Tokyo, 25 January 1971 and New York, 2 September 1971.

johnlennon 2020-11-04 | Excerpts from the Limited Edition 10" clear vinyl; available at the 'DOUBLE FANTASY: John & Yoko' Tokyo exhibition. Recorded messages from John & Yoko to their Japanese fans in January and September 1971, talking about their albums (Wedding Album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Fly), their Peace Campaign and Japanese memories: haiku, zen, kabuki, Japanese gardens and various stories that connect them to Japan.

ANGEL BABY. (Ultimate Remix, 2020) - John Lennon.

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ANGEL BABY
It’s just like heaven being here with you
You’re like an angel too good to be true
But after all I love you I do
Angel baby my angel baby
Ooh hoo I love you ooh hoo I do
No-one can love you like I do

When you are near me my heart skips a beat
I can hardly stand on my own two feet
Because I love you I love you I do
Angel baby my angel baby
Ooh hoo I love you ooh hoo I do
No-one can love you like I do

Please never leave me blue and alone
If you ever go I’m sure you’ll come back home
Because I love you I love you I do
Angel baby my angel baby
Ooh hoo I love you ooh hoo I do
No-one can love you like I do

Written by: Rosalie Hamlin

Recorded: 26 Oct 1973
A&M Studios, 1416 North La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, California
Outtake from the Rock ’n’ Roll album sessions
Remixed by Paul Hicks, 2020