The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 11 e 12

O CD duplo com o volume 11/12 da série, traz a grande maioria dos takes centrados nos anos de 1970 a 1975 da carreira de Lennon. No primeiro disco, outtakes para faixas como How Do You Sleep e I Know, aqui com diferenças nos vocais. Love aparece numa versão demo com John usando o efeito tremolo na guitarra.

Presentes ainda, uma das mais belas versões já gravadas por John para o clássico Be My Baby, de Phil Spector. O segundo Cd chama atenção pela versão acustica para Woman is the Nigger of the World e pela inédita When a Boy Meets a Girl. How é trazida numa versão somente ao piano e God aparece em home demo. Qualidade de som entre 8-10.

CD1: Volume 11
01 Just Gotta Give Me Some Rock 'N' Roll/Shoeshine Early version of Meat City
02 How Do You Sleep?
03 I Know
04 Power To The People Ragged take "Raggae Version"
05 Love Guitar demo
06 Out Of The Blue Rough mix, an early guide vocal
07 Bony Moronie Rock & Roll album session
08 Be My Baby Rock & Roll album session
09 Power To The People Alternate take, almost finished
10 Oh Yoko Tittenhurst Park home studio outtake
11 What You Got Acoustic demo
12 Real Love Take #4, acoustic demo
13 Woman 1980 Double Fantasy sessions
14 Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) Piano demo for Ringo
15 Free As A Bird Piano demo
16 Intuition Composing demo
17 Intuition Rough mix
18 Call My Name Mid 1971 incomplete demo
19 Call My Name Complete demo
20 Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
21 One Of The Boys Demo
22 L.O.V.E. Remix

CD1: Volume 12
01 Honey Don't "Clock" sound track
02 Glad All Over "Clock" sound track
03 Lend Me Your Comb "Clock" sound track
04 Duane Eddy Jam Acoustic lick version
05 No. 9 Dream Second, more polished demo
06 12 Bar Original Instrumental Rubber Soul outtake, acetate version
07 Well Well Well Demo
08 Well Well Well Take #4, acetate version
09 He Got The Blues Acoustic Lennon original
10 Look At Me During White Album, acoustic demo
11 My Mummy's Dead Take 2
12 Real Life Piano demo, take 2
13 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World Acoustic demo
14 Cold Turkey Acoustic demo, take 3
15 I'm Stepping Out Take one
16 Watching The Wheels Electric "Blues" style demo
17 Run For Your Life Tantilizing abbreviated mix
18 The Maharishi Song Home recording June '68
19 Julia Home demo take #2
20 When A Boy Meets A Girl
21 God
22 Look At Me Alternate mix
23 Oh! Yoko Acoustic demo
24 How?
25 Imagine Complete solo piano take
26 Jam Imagine sessions
27 How Do You Sleep? Early run-through, John sings an octave lower
28 Oh My Love Alternate mix

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 13 e 14

Esse volume é um dos mais indicados para aqueles fãs de Lennon que querem entrar de forma um pouco mais profunda no processo de criação do ex-beatle. No CD 1, uma versão de mais de seis minutos para Serve Yourself onde John muda a letra várias vezes e tenta, ao piano trabalhar a melodia . Um pouco mais a frente, um take de 11min. e 33 seg. para a música Beautiful Boy, com Lennon trabalhando letra e melodia da canção.

Ainda no primeiro disco, demo para Cookin in the Kitchen of Love ( que ele daria para Ringo Starr) e Watching the Wheels numa versão que ficou conhecida por sua levada, como "blues demo version" . Ne segundo CD, várias versões para Give Peace a Chance, algumas gravadas durante o bed-in, mix alternativos para Dear Yoko, Watching the Wheels e Cleanup Time, além da inédita Illusions. Qualidade de som entre 8-10.

CD1: Volume 13
01 Imagine altern. mix
02 J.J. St. Regis Hotel, 1972, early Angela version
03 Attica State acoustic demo
04 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World altern. version
05 Sweet Little Sixteen altern. take
06 Bless You early rehearsal, rougher than found on "Something Precious And Rare"
07 Many Rivers To Cross home recording
08 Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) demo
09 My Life demo for later called "Starting Over"
10 I Watch Your Face demo for later called "Starting Over"
11 Serve Yourself piano demo for "Starting Over"
12 The Worst Is Over home demo from the "Dakota Daddy Days"
13 Watching The Wheels blues demo version
14 Beautiful Boy extended composing tape with the lyrics as they appear on the finished version taking shape
15 I Don't Want To Face it take #1 acoustic demo
16 Medley: Beautiful Boy/ Howling At The Moon/ Dakota Rap/ Across The River medley set to the beat of John's drum machine 17 Real Love take #5 acoustic demo, altern. take
18 Beautiful Boy take #2 of the "Fritz and Heinz" series
19 Stepping Out alternate take

CD1: Volume 14
01 Cleanup Time rehearsal version with John directing the studio musicians
02 Beautiful Boy alternate mix
03 Watching The Wheels
04 Dear Yoko
05 Cleanup Time
06 You Saved My Soul post Double Fantasy demo
07 Illusions
08 He Said ... He Said composing tape 1966 "She Said, She Said"
09 She Said ... She Said demo with finished lyrics
10 Yer Blues take #1 of Rolling Stones film 12-11-68, Clapton, Richards, Mitchell backing up John
11 Oh.. My Love
12 Oh .. My Love early demos with preliminary lyrics referring to Yoko's miscarriage
13 Because
14 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
15 Give Peace A Chance #1
15 Canadian bed-in recordings; King Edward Hotel, Toronto; May 25th
16 Give Peace A Chance #2 June 1st; Queen Elisabetz Hotel, suite 1742, Montreal. Early rehearsal
17 Give Peace A Chance #3 later rehearsal
18 Give Peace A Chance #4 soundtrack of documentary film
19 Give Peace A Chance #5 a brief version of undetermined origin
20 God acoustic demo
21 My Mummy's Dead rough mix of the track that closes the Plastic Ono Band album
22 It's So Hard June 4th 1971; King Curtis joins John. On this track John explains what he wants on the track followed by an early overdub pass
23 Come Together 1972, one-to-one rehearsal
24 Honky Tonk Blues 1972, one-to-one rehearsal
25 I Know 1973, Mind Games LP; take #3 of a series of acoustic demos
26 Rock 'N' Roll People 1973, Mind Games LP; rough mix of take #7
27 Only People 1973; Mind Games LP; rough mix of take #7
28 Whatever Gets You Through The Night June 1974, acoustic demo

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 15 e 16

CD1: Volume 15
Esse primeiro disco dos volumes 15/16 da série, é dedicado quase que totalmente, a outtakes para o disco Double Fantasy. Destaque para os takes, ao piano de Watching the Wheels e Serve Yourself.

01 Steel And GlassWalls and Bridges eight-track version/extended fade-out5:11
02 Beef JerkyWalls and Bridges eight-track version3:18
03 You Saved My SoulNov. '80 electric guitar demo1:29
04 Serve YourselfEarly '80 piano demo8:25
05 MemoriesTake one - evolved version of Tennessee - see Lost Lennon vol. 18:24
06 Real LifePiano demo number two, '773:18
07 Watching The WheelsPiano version mid '80 3:15
08 Don't Be CrazyPiano version mid '80 - later evolved into Starting Over3:09
09 WomanBermuda demo - June '802:43
10 (Just Like) Starting Over

Soon after, back at the Dakota in late July or early Aug., John would combine the best elements of My Life/Don't Be Crazy/The Worst Is Over into Starting Over, represented here by an acoustic demo4:14

11 I Don't Want To Face It Early guitar demo - recorded at the Dakota late '770:43
12 Nobody Told MeDouble tracked demo - Summer '803:13
13 Real Lovewritten for unrelized Broadway musical "Balla of John & Yoko"; piano demo3:09
14 I'm Losing You

Abandones early studio version feat. Rick Nielson & Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick -July/Aug. '804:20

15 Beautiful Boytake one from the vocal booth recorded at Hit Factory New York, Aug. '80 for Double Fantasy LP7:23
16 Nobody Told Me take one from the vocal booth3:59
17 Clean Up Time Rough mix of the backing track - take 74:35
18 (Just Like) Starting Over Rough mix, lacking many of the annoying overdubs that detract from the album version 3:58
19 If I FellJohn's '63 composing tape. Beatles chauffeur All Bicknell sold this tape at Sotheby's3:59
20 I Sat Belonely 0:43
21 Foyle's Speech0:04

CD2: Volume 16
Nesse segundo disco, além de vários outtakes para faixas dos albuns Mind Games/ Walls and Bridges, destaque para a famosa reggae version de Power to the People, um interessante mix para I’m the Greatest e uma rara curiosidade: John fazendo papel de DJ numa rádio AM de Los Angeles para promover seu disco Walls and Bridges.

01 National Health Cow Speech held to honor him for his first book "In his own write"0:32
02 Strawberry Fields Forever Home demo2:36
03 Get It TogetherPeace message from John and Yoko in London '691:57
04 Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)Different mix - overdubbed Harlem Choir 3:20
05 Power To The People Early Reggae version1:22
06 Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog72 - One to one rehearsal sessions with Elephant's memory4:17
07 I'm The Greatest Rough mix of Ringo's version found in the Lennon archives3:11
08 I Know'73 - Mind Games - acoustic demo 3:16
09 Rock And Roll People Piano demo3:26
10 Meat City Take 1 electric guitar demo2:34
11 Meat City Take 2 electric guitar demo3:28
12 Meat City Alternate mix2:29
13 One Day At A Time Alternate mix3:17
14 Only People Alternate mix2:54
15 Tight A$ Alternate mix - Mind Games4:16
16 You Are Here Alternate mix - Mind games4:37
17 Going Down On Love Acoustic demo, '744:08
18 No. 9 Dream Monitor mix of an early version4:40
19 Whatever Gets You Through The Night Quadraphonic 8-track mix3:20
20 Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradise)Quadraphonic 8-track mix2:35
21 John On KHJ-AM Los Angeles to promote "Walls and Bridges", John appears as a DJ1:06
22 Do You Wanna Dance Monitor mix of alternate take3:05
23 You Can't Catch Me Alternate take Rock and Roll sessions 3:33
24 Free As A Bird Take #3; John's husband years '75-'792:42

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 17 e 18

CD1: Volume 17
Do disco 1 dos volumes 17/18 da série Lost Lennon Tapes destacam-se um demo de Starting Over liberado por Yoko Ono pela primeira vez para essa série, covers de John para Dream Lover/ Stay, o take # 8 de I’m Stepping Out e a inclusão de parte das gravações Lost Diary Tape, garvado em setembro de 1979.

01 Serve Yourself another take of Lennon's Dylan parody 5:15
02 She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain traditional American folk song1:01
03 She Run Them 'Round In Circles/ Beautiful Boy medley of 2 Lennon originals5:38
04 Memories/ Watching The Wheels medley of 2 Lennon originals4:18
05 Stranger's Room demox XB3 #1, early version of "I'm losing you"3:51
06 Woman acoustic demo - false start - take #40:30
07 Woman complete acoustic demo - take 93:53
08 I'm Stepping Out demo - take #11:42
09 I'm Stepping Out demo - take #36:14
10 (Just Like) Starting Overd emo, never aired - exclusive to this series3:43
11 Dream Lover/ Stay jammin' on two favorite oldies3:41
12 Clean Up Timevocal overdubs0:55
13 Beautiful Boyvocal overdubs2:03
14 Watching The Wheels vocal overdubs4:41
15 Borrowed Time rough mix4:08
16 I'm Stepping Out unreleased take #85:01
17 Womanrough mix3:08
18 Lennon's Lost Diary Tape exclusive to this series - September 5th, 1979 13:36

CD2: Volume 18
Pra quem ainda duvida que a Lost Lennon Tapes é mesmo uma série impar, veja só o que traz esse CD. Nada menos que um outtake para faixas do Two Virgins!! No mais, demo versions para faixas do álbum Imagine , Mind Games e Walls and Bridges onde John na versão para Steel and Glass canta um verso extra, não aproveitado na versão oficial da música.

01 It's Not Too Bad embryonic versions of Strawberry Fields, Spain 19663:29
02 She Can Talk To Me early Piano demo of Hey Bulldog0:46
03 Cry Baby Cry early piano and electric guitar demo fragments3:23
04 Two Virgins Outtake May 1968, John and Yoko playing around in their Surrey homestudio1:47
05 Plastic Ono Band Jamsen dup fifties rockabilly1:39
06 Look At MePOB-sessions - alternate vocals2:52
07 I'm The Greatest dec. 1970 - piano demo0:37
08 How?/ Child Of Nature/ Oh Yoko!medley - piano demo4:25
09 Oh Yoko!piano demo3:23
10 Sally And Billysong from 1970, he would return to 6 years later2:03
11 Come TogetherAugust 1972 "One to One" rehearsals1:47
12 Happy GirlYoko's call and response song1:10
13 I'll Make You HappyJohn's call and response song - lyrcis borrowed from ColdTurkey3:56
14 How Do You Sleep? July 1971, session rehearsal3:45
15 It's So Hard run-through from the King Curtis sax overdub sessions4:44
16 I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier, I Don't WannaDierun-through from the King Curtis sax overdub sessions4:34
17 Intuition take #4 of a series of piano demos3:04
18 I Know take #2 of a series of guitar demos3:00
19 I Know alternate mix of the finished song3:43
20 Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)near-final mix/ great dual lead guitar work 4:00
21 Steel And Glasdark piano version, featuring extra lyrics1:44
22 Walls And Bridges RundownCanadian radio station promo-spot1:56
23 Mirror Mirror On The WallFall-1977 take #2 of the piano demos4:34
24 Memorieshome demo - 1796. John's house-husband years, recording guitar over an earlier piano demo6:03

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 19 e 20

Penúltimo volume da série Lost Lennon Tapes. O disco 1 é quase totalmente dedicado a demos feitos por Lennon durante a década de 70. É o caso das músicas Tenesse, Sally and Billy, The Boat Song e JJ. Chama a atenção ainda, ensaios para várias faixas do disco Double Fantasy. No disco 2, destaque para mixes diferentes feitos para as sessões do álbum Mind Games, uma versão demo para Serve Yourself e o take 1 de Stepping Out.

CD1: Volume 19
01 Tennessee 1976
02 Sally And Billy 1976
03 She Is A Friend Of Dorothy's NY slang for a lesbian, polished song from 1977
04 The Boat Song nautical (theme)
05 Pedro The Fisherman another nautical (theme)
06 Many Rivers To Cross, PT.2 - My Girl John doodling on the old Motown song
07 Instrumental 1979 Great work himself in 1979
08 I'm Stepping Out incomplete take (Double Fantasy), August 1980
09 Dear Yoko another incomplete take, interrupted by John breaking a string
10 Woman rehearsal stage
11 Woman John recording his vocals
12 Woman John adding the whispered intro
13 Clean Up Time rehearsal followed by the studio doodle, "Let's Get Peculiar"
14 Nobody Told Me different take - Milk and Honey
15 I Am The Walrus/Watching The Wheels rehearsal take
16 Woman instrumental - guitar overdub
17 Woman alternate take with interesting backing vocals
18 Living On Borrowed Time early take alternate take, followed by some studio talk
20 Imagine alt. vocals
21 How Do You Sleep? breakdown
22 J.J. acoustic
23 Rock Island Line/ Maybe Baby/ Peggy Sue St. Regis Hotel
24 I'm Ready To Sing For The World

CD2: Volume 20
01Out The Blue rough mix
02 Old Dirt Road alt. take
03 Steel And Glass alt. take
04 Whatever Gets You Through The Night rough mix
05 Rock 'N' Roll Radio Spot Old Grey Whistle Test
06 Stand By Me Old Grey Whistle Test
07 Serve Yourself piano demo
08 Everybody piano demo
09 Everybody/ Nobody Told Me demo with overdubs
10 Nobody Told Me take 2
11 Falling In Love Again acoustic demo
12 Cathy's Clown early take
13 You Send Me early take
14 Real Love demo
15 My Life piano version
16 My Life acoustic guitar
17 Dear Yoko composing runthrough
18 I'm Stepping Out take 1 overdub
19 I Don't Wanna Face It rough mix
20 Watching The Wheels session tape
21 Beautiful Boy alt.
22 Interview ... More Popular Than Jesus
23 Interview ... John's Book

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes 21 e 22

No primeiro disco do album duplo (último da série), temos os primeiros takes feitos para I'm Stepping Out e algumas apresentações de Lennon para programas de TV como David Frost e Mike Douglas Show. No entanto, a série fecha com chave de ouro mesmo no disco 2. No dia 31 de agosto de 1971, Lennon e Yoko deixam a Inglaterra e passam a morar definitivamente em Nova York, mais precisamente no 12º. andar do St. Regis Hotel, apartamentos 1701,1702 e 1703. Já em setembro, gravam no próprio hotel, a trilha sonora, composta de takes acústicos, que seria utilizada no filme Clock, que viria a ser exibido um mês depois durante a performance This is Not Here, de Yoko Ono.

Da faixa 1 à faixa 13, o raro registro dessa sessão. Temos aqui John Lennon num quarto de hotel interpretando faixas como Honey Don’t, Peggy Sue e Maybe Baby sem nenhum ensaio e preocupação com arranjos num dos momentos mais intimistas já gravados do ex-beatle. Um mês depois dessas gravações, no dia 09/10/1971, acontece a exposição de Yoko. John estava completando 31 anos de idade e, após o evento, ocorrido no Everson Museum, ele, Yoko, Ringo Starr e sua então esposa Maureen, Phil Spector, o poeta Allen Ginsberg, Kluas Voorman, Jim Keltner e alguns dizem que também Eric Clapton, dirigem-se para o Syracuse Hotel e ocupando todo o sétimo andar do prédio, fazem uma improvisada festa de aniversário para John.

O resultado é uma sessão onde aconteceu de tudo um pouco, até música. Da faixa 14 à 34 desse disco, o registro das várias músicas “cantadas” durante a festa, misturadas a muito barulho, risadas e conversas. Musicalmente o resultado, até pela forma inusitada como foi gravado, é pobre mas, sem dúvida alguma, uma gema da história de um dos Beatles.

CD1: Volume 21
01 I'm Stepping Out - DF sessions, several breakdowns & complete take
02 I'm Stepping Out - DF sessions, dinner orders & complete take
03 I'm Stepping Out - DF sessions, several breakdwons & complete take
04 Living On Borrowed Time - John working out the arrangement
05 Living On Borrowed Time - aborted take
06 Living On Borrowed Time - Breakdowns with acoustic guitar overdubs
07 (Just Like) Starting Over - Off line monitor mix
08 (Just Like) Starting Over - Rough mix of the basic track
09 John Sinclair - TVDavid Frost Show16 Dec 1971TV.711016.05
10 It's So Hard TVMike Douglas Show
11 The Luck Of The Irish TVMike Douglas Show
12 Sisters O Sisters TVMike Douglas Show
13 We're All Water TV Dick Cavett Show
14 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World TVDick Cavett Show

CD2: Volume 22
01 Aisumasen (I'm Sorry) - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
02 Honey Don't - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
03 Glad All Over - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
04 Lend Me Your Comb - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
05 Wake Up Little Susie - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
06 You're So Square - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
07 Vacation Just Began - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
08.Heartbeat - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
09.Peggy Sue Got Married - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
10.Peggy Sue - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
11.Maybe Baby - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
12.Mailman, Bring Me No More - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
13.Rave On - St Regis Hotel, NYC, Sep 1971 for the film "Clock".
14.What'd I Say - Jam 9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
15.Yellow Submarine - Jam 9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
16.Old Smokey Mountain - 9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
17.Good Night Irene - Jam9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
18.He's Got The Whole World In His Hands 9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
19.(Medley)
Like A Rolling Stone 9 Oct 1971
John's 31st birthday party
Twist And Shout
Louie Louie
La Bamba
20.Bring It On Home To Me - 9 Oct 1971 John's 31st birthday party
21.Yesterday - 9 Oct 1971
22.Tandoori Chicken - 9 Oct 1971 23.Power To The People
24.Maybe Baby
25.Peggy Sue
26.My Baby Left Me
27.Blue Suede Shoes
28.Crippled Inside
29.Give Peace a Chance
30.Crippled Inside
31.Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
32.Happy Birthday
33.Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
34.My Sweet Lord