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“Revolution 1” In The Head

By Devin McKinney|2014-07-03T19:24:35-07:00February 25, 2009|1968, John Lennon, The White Album, Unreleased/Outtakes|

If only you were here to confirm or deny... DEVIN McKINNEY • Mike asked what I thought of the “Revolution 1” Take 20 RM1, so called, that's been burning up Beatleland. I’ve been loving and chewing on this piece of mystery meat since the weekend, and at first assumed it was genuine. Why not: Remember the stripped-down masters of those four Sgt. Pepper songs that appeared almost a year ago? Those were just as crisply digitized, just as thrillingly intimate in their four-track nudity, and no one has credibly claimed they are not genuine. So I figured it was more [...]

It happened in Toronto

By Ed Park|2014-07-03T19:04:33-07:00February 17, 2009|1969, John Lennon|

John Lennon onstage in Toronto 1969. "When is a shaky, under-rehearsed performance even better than a polished, high-octane explosion by an artist who is beyond iconic? When it's September 13, 1969, and John Lennon finds himself in the unenviable position of having to follow Little Richard at the Toronto Peace Festival. "Big-time rock & roll fan John Lennon had been invited simply to host the show, but then at almost literally the last minute he decided to play it, and rounded up a few heavy friends — Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, future Yes drummer Alan White and Yoko Ono — [...]

Radio, radio

By Ed Park|2014-07-01T19:34:22-07:00February 19, 2008|John Lennon|

ED PARK • This passed me by, for the first 50 listens: Jens Lekman's "Friday Night at the Drive-In" features the line: "My heart is beating, beating like Ringo." Very nice! http://youtu.be/u4Dfv9hMnaw In other related audio news.... The Poetry Foundation's UbuWeb podcast discusses Aspen, an amazing-sounding publication (dreamt up on a ski slope) that wanted to be the first "three-dimensional magazine." Listen to a little snippet of Yoko Ono's contribution, "No Bed for Beatle John," as well as John's contribution...in which he fiddles with a radio dial! Finally, Dullblogger Hua's radio show, the Finer Things Club, can be listened to here at [...]