Lennon plays guitar in the footage from Ascot Sound Studios, the recording facility he built with his wife Yoko Ono in Berkshire County, England. Harrison can be seen playing slide guitar alongside keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, drummer Alan White and bassist Klaus Voormann.
According to NPR, Lennon described Harrison’s playing on “How Do You Sleep? (Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take)” as George’s “best guitar solo to date on this cut, as good as anything I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere.”
This previously unseen video, which includes the raw studio mix of the audio, completely unadorned, comes ahead of the Oct. 5 release of a 6-CD box set, Imagine - The Ultimate Collection.
John Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, was released in Sep. 1971.
Just about two years after The Beatles went their separate ways. John Lennon said that this song was a response to lyrics on Paul McCartney's own solo album, Ram, that Lennon felt were directed at him.
(Give a listen to "Too Many People" and "Back Seat of My Car" and you'll hear what Lennon was referring to.) Yoko Ono, who sat in on and co-produced these recording sessions, wrote to us to say that "John wrote many great songs, some tender and some mean... ... people thought this was about Paul, and Paul seems to have thought that too, so too bad it wasn't played too much."
A new hardback book documenting the creation of John Lennon’s landmark 1971 album Imagine is to be published on 9 October 2018 to mark 78th birthday.
The book is officially titled Imagine, although the front cover and spine both display the words “Imagine John Yoko”. The cover also states: “With contributions from the people who were there”. According to industry insiders, a revamped version of Lennon’s classic 1971 solo album is also in the works.new
The deluxe 320-page hardcover book will be published by Grand Central Publishing, and is priced at $50 with 320 page.A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren’t there, so I’m very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to “gimme some truth” in their own words and pictures.” – Yoko Ono.
