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Classic Albums (The making of) / John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

John Lennon - Imagine (1971) : 

The Making of: https://youtu.be/7GP5mX5Ty8U :

Imagine is the second studio album by John Lennon. Recorded and released in 1971, the album is more heavily produced in contrast to the basic, raw arrangements of his previous album, the critically acclaimed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The album is considered the most popular of his works and the title track is considered one of Lennon's finest songs. 
Music and lyrics:

Imagine was written and recorded during a period of particularly bad feeling between Lennon and former bandmate Paul McCartney, following The Beatles' break-up the year before and McCartney winning his case in the High Court to have their legal partnership dissolved. Harrison guested on half of Imagine 's ten tracks, including the brutal "How Do You Sleep?" - a song written in retaliation against McCartney's alleged personal attacks on Lennon and Ono, on his recent Ram album. Although Lennon softened his stance in the mid '70s and claimed he wrote "How Do You Sleep?" about himself, he revealed in 1980: "I used my resentment against Paul ... to create a song ... not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta ... I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep?'. I don't really go 'round with those thoughts in my head all the time ..."

The track "Imagine" became Lennon's signature song and was written as a plea for world peace. Years later he gave credit to his wife Yoko Ono who co-wrote the song. "Jealous Guy" has also had enduring popularity; it was originally composed as "Child of Nature" during the songwriting sessions in India in 1968 that led to The Beatles' double album The Beatles. "Oh My Love" and the song "How?" were influenced by his experience with primal therapy: "How?" contains the questions he was facing while going through the changes produced in him during the ongoing process of primal therapy, while "Oh My Love" was written to communicate the joy and growth Lennon was experiencing as a result of the therapy.


Lennon also indulged his love of rock and roll with "Crippled Inside" and "It's So Hard". "Gimme Some Truth", originally heard during the Let It Be sessions in early 1969, appears on the album with a new bridge. The politically themed "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" closes the first half of Imagine in a cacophonous manner. The last song on the album was "Oh Yoko!"; EMI pushed for this track to be the single, but Lennon thought it was too "pop".


More info about the album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_album)



Full album: https://youtu.be/e0oQqa39pjk :

Track listing:

(All songs written by John Lennon, except "Oh My Love" by Lennon and Yoko Ono)

Side one:

 "Imagine" – 3:01
"Crippled Inside" – 3:47
"Jealous Guy" – 4:14
"It's So Hard" – 2:25
"I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" – 6:05


Side two:

"Gimme Some Truth" – 3:16
"Oh My Love" – 2:50
"How Do You Sleep?" – 5:36
"How?" – 3:43

"Oh Yoko!" – 4:20



Source: wikipedia

Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle (documentary)

On BBC Four - documentary.

Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle explores the mystique surrounding the Beatles' original bassist, who left the band to follow a different muse and died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 22. Told via interviews with an impressive array of Sutcliffe's family and friends--and through uniquely descriptive quotes from his letters--this hour-long documentary reveals a lot of intimate detail about Sutcliffe's transition from promising art-school student in Liverpool (and best friend of John Lennon) to reluctant musician (pressed into service by Lennon) to determined painter within the German avant-garde scene. A lot of Stu's story, as Beatles fans know, is set in Hamburg, during and after the days the group was a house band in the city's red-light district. Familiar tales of friction between Sutcliffe and Paul McCartney abound. But these are offset by a tremendous amount of fresh insight and detail offered by such important Beatles-saga figures as rocker Tony Sheridan, Klaus Voormann and--most crucially--Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer who influenced the Beatles' look and who became Sutcliffe's lover until his death.

At art college in Liverpool in 1959, Stuart Sutcliffe met John Lennon and they soon became close -with Lennon persuading Sutcliffe to use the proceeds of a painting he had sold to buy a bass guitar and join his band, along with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Before long, with drummer Pete Best in the line-up, they won a contract in Hamburg playing sleazy clubs in the seedy Reeperbahn area of the city, amidst the casual sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of the era. The newly-christened Beatles were on their way.
With the band on the brink of success, Sutcliffe left the group to concentrate on his first love, art, and his new love, German photographer Astrid Kirchherr. But Stuart's health soon began to decline. On the 10th of April 1962, Stuart suffered a seizure and slipped into a coma. As Astrid cradled his head in her hands, Stuart died of a cerebral hemorrhage, cutting short the life of the promising young artist.
Interviewees include Stuart's fiancée and Beatles stylist/photographer Astrid Kirchherr, early Beatles manager Allan Williams, Stuart's sister Pauline Sutcliffe, Liverpool flatmate to Sutcliffe and Lennon, Rod Murray and esteemed American art historian and writer Donald Kuspit.

Source: Youtube


More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Sutcliffe


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The Beatles (Art)

Photos by Richard Avedon, taken on August 1967 at Thomson House. In 1968 used on the covers of the US magazine 'Look'

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The Beatles Anthology (documentary)

The Beatles Anthology is a documentary serie about the career of The Beatles. It was broadcast on television in six abridged parts between November and December 1995. An eight volume VHS set and an 8 disc Laserdisc set were released on 5 September 1996. The series was re-released on DVD in 2003, with an 81-minute special-features disc.


The Beatles Anthology:

 Episode 1:

Chapters:


1. Liverpool: The Childhood Years 0:00
2. Discovering Rock & Roll 7:35
3. John, Paul & George - The Beginning of the Beatles 18:58
4. First Recordings 1958-1960 24:19
5. Stuart Sutcliffe 27:14
6. Early Tours 30:33
7. Pete Best 37:32
8. Hamburg 39:40
9. Growing Pains 52:56
10. Stuart Sutcliffe Leaves 53:48
11. The Cavern 56:13
12. Decca Sessions 1:00:21
13. George Martin 1:01:49
14. Ringo Arrives 1:03:02
15. Love Me Do 1:07:12
16. Please Please Me 1:11:26
17. End Credits 1:16:24

Episode 2:

 Chapters:

1. Racing Up The Ladder 0:00
2. Touring Britain - 1963 11:02
3. London - 1963 22:32
4. Early Television Appearances 26:33
5. Voice Clips from Abbey Road 30:18
6. Reflections On Sudden Fame 35:14
7. Beatlemania 40:27
8. Royal Variety Performance 45:08
9. Second Album: With The Beatles 54:51
10. Olympia Theatre - Paris 1:04:30
11. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" 1:05:52


Only to see on YouTube: http://youtu.be/1_Q1HcOZ54Y




Episode 3:

Chapters:


1. Arrival in the US 0:00
2. First Appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show 10:00
3. The Coliseum Concert - Washington D.C. 13:55
4. Reception at the British Embassy 24:24
5. Miami Beach 25:32
6. Second Appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show 28:32
7. Return to England 32:26
8. "They're Going To Put Us in the Movies" 34:25
9. Filming A Hard Day's Night 36:21
10. In His Own Write 46:15
11. World Tour 1964 49:15
12. World Premiere of A Hard Day's Night 1:04:00
13. Liverpool Homecoming 1:06:14

Episode 4:

Chapters:


1. First Major US Tour - Summer 1964 0:00
2. Meeting Bob Dylan 9:12
3. The Pressures of Touring 12:13
4. Feedback - "I Feel Fine" 18:26
5. Recording "Beatles For Sale" 21:16
6. Filming "Help!" 29:05
7. "Yesterday" 43:22
8. NME Poll Winners Concert - April 11, 1965 48:11
9. George Talks About His Songs 50:11
10. "Ticket To Ride" 54:18
11. The Beatles Recieve The MBE From The Queen 57:02