As reported by the Smithsonian magazine, after having breakfast at 'Café La Fortuna' with Yoko Ono, John Lennon went to the 'Viz-à-Viz' (hairdresser) to have his hair fixed: when he came out of the salon, the artist had a new cut in retro style, which was very reminiscent of what he had at the beginning of his career. Soon after he went back to his apartment, where photographer Annie Leibovitz was setting up the set for the photo shoot they had already started the previous week.
Producer David Geffen had arranged for John and Yoko to get the next Rolling Stone cover, but publisher Jann Wenner tried to make a cover dedicated exclusively to the ex-Beatles.
In any case, the photographer who took care of the photo shoot later said that he would never forget that day: “John came to open me wearing a black leather jacket. His hair was combed back. I was very impressed because he had his old Beatles look ”.
That morning Yoko Ono did not pose for photos with her husband: she had decided to step aside to leave the cover to him, but the photographer was very impressed by the cover of the Double Fantasy album where the couple had been portrayed while exchanging a tender kiss and for this he wanted to photograph them together.
Once the photo shoot was over, John went downstairs where, in Yoko Ono's office, the RKO Radio team was waiting for an interview with Dave Sholin. She told him about his typical day: "I get up around 6, go to the kitchen, have a coffee, cough a little and then smoke a cigarette, while I watch the Sesame Street program with my son Sean. I make sure you watch PBS and not cartoons with commercials. I'm not interested in cartoons, but I don't want him to watch commercials.
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...Everyone was getting along great during those later records. Yeah, and John knew that Yoko was onto something with that one. Especially with that spoken word. And the whole feel of it was so different that she was going to have a hit. It was nominated for a Grammy. But we actually finished that song and that last night he…I would go to my session afterward, a session at nine or ten at night, and he…we were planning on mastering in the morning. And some asshole went and shot him when he got home...
After the interview, John and Yoko went out and the street below their house was strangely deserted: "Where are my fans?", Asked the musician who, in the meantime, had been joined by the photographer and his great friend Paul Goresh who she had to show him some shots she had recently taken. At that point a fan approached and asked him for an autograph on the cover of a copy of Double Fantasy: this moment was immortalized by Goresh. No one could have imagined that that fan with the glasses and the wrinkled coat only five hours later would kill Lennon, shocking the world.
Unaware of his fate, the ex Beatles got into his car and drove with his wife to the Record Plant recording studios, where producer Jack Douglas was waitin for the recording session.The last one.
The documentary, from director Ron Chapman, features never-before seen footage of the concert shot by renowned filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker. Following several film festival screenings, the film opens in Canada on Dec. 16.
REVIVAL 69: The Concert That Rocked the World, is the remarkable, behind-the-scenes story of how a little known, but life-altering music festival.
A new documentary recounts the 1969 music festival in Toronto that featured John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, including Eric Clapton, headlining a lineup with other rock legends. The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was a one-day event held on Sept. 13, four weeks after Woodstock.
An unforgettable happening that triggered Lennon's decision to leave the Beatles forever. watch the trailer HERE
