JOHN LENNON - SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY SESSIONS
December 8, 2020 – 5:49 am
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JOHN LENNON
Some Time In New York City Sessions [Misterclaudel MCCD 403/403/404; 3CD]
Unreleased session and demo tracks.
Thanks to Tmangia and Soundbaron for sharing the tracks on the net.
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It was 40 years ago today…
Around 5 pm on December 8, 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for fan Mark David Chapman before leaving The Dakota Apartments with Yoko Ono for a recording session at the Record Plant. After the session, Lennon and Ono returned to their Manhattan apartment in a limousine around 10:50 pm. They exited the vehicle and walked through the archway of the building when Chapman shot Lennon twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range. Lennon was rushed in a police cruiser to the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11 pm. Lennon was 40.
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Daniel Arkin, nbcnews.com:
in the last five years of his life, Lennon went into hibernation. He retreated into a domestic idyll inside the famed Dakota apartment building in New York City, devoting himself to raising his young son, Sean, and nurturing his strained marriage with his wife, Yoko Ono.
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Lennon’s assassination on Tuesday, admirers around the world are likely to revisit his Beatles heyday and his legacy as an anti-war activist. But amid those tributes, biographers and journalists say, Lennon’s quiet final chapter deserves more attention.
“If he knew he was going to die, and if he was able to choose the period of his life that would be the focus in the future, it would be this period,” said David Sheff, a writer who interviewed Lennon during his final months, spending three weeks with him and his family.
“He was so alive, and he felt that he had something important to say about raising his baby and marriage. That’s the story he would want told, I think,” said Sheff, who is also the author of “Beautiful Boy,” a memoir of his son’s battle with drug addiction.
“He was probably, in those years, the most notable stay-at-home dad in America,” said Larry Kane, author of “Lennon Revealed,” a 2005 biography, and “Ticket to Ride,” a chronicle of the Beatles’ early American tours.
Lennon’s final months also marked the start of what could have amounted to a new artistic chapter. In August 1980, Lennon and Ono began recording their fifth album, “Double Fantasy,” a sentimental celebration of home and hearth shaped by Lennon’s low-key domestic years.
“In a way, we’re involved in a kind of experiment,” Lennon told The New York Times in an article published November 9, 1980. “Could the family be the inspiration for art, instead of drinking or drugs or whatever? I’m interested in finding that out.”
Less than a month later, he was gone.
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Disc 1
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Track 101. Demo (1971) 3:16
Track 102. Basic Track - Rough Mix #1 3:20
Track 103. Basic Track - Rough Mix #2 3:33
Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
Track 104. Demo (1971) 2:14
Track 105. Demo (1971) 5:35
Attica State
Track 106. Demo Take 1 (1971) 2:40
Track 107. Demo Take 2 (1971) 0:34
Track 108. Demo Take 3 (1971) 2:58
Track 109. Studio Rehearsal 3:01
New York City
Track 110. Demo (1971) 1:16
Track 111. Rehearsal #1 6:31
Track 112. Rehearsal #2 0:43
Track 113. Take 1 (Breakdown) 1:08
Track 114. Take 2 (Breakdown) 0:17
Track 115. Take 3 4:17
Track 116. Take 4 (Breakdown) 0:55
Track 117. Takes 5 & 6 2:36
Track 118. Take 7 (Breakdown) 0:57
Track 119. Take 8 4:31
Track 120. Take 9 4:35
Track 121. Take 10 (Breakdown) 1:47
Track 122. Take 11 5:09
Track 123. Take 12 (Breakdown) 0:15
Track 124. Take 13 3:49
Track 125. Take 14 4:05
Track 126. Takes 15 & 16 2:36
Track 127. Take 17 3:29
Track 128. Takes 18 & 19 (Breakdown) 0:47
77 mins
Disc 2
New York City
Track 201. Take 20 3:05
Track 202. Let’s Ride 0:53
Track 203. Take 21 5:29
Track 204. Takes 22, 23 & 24 5:10
The Luck Of The Irish
Track 205. Demo Take 1 0:46
Track 206. Demo Take 2 1:34
Track 207. Rehearsal #1 1:13
Track 208. New York City/Rehearsal #2 1:04
Track 209. Rehearsal #3 1:40
Track 210. Rehearsal #4 1:00
Track 211. Rehearsal #5 0:33
Track 212. Rehearsal #6 0:41
Track 213. Rehearsal Take 1 3:48
Track 214. Rehearsal #7 2:29
Track 215. Rehearsal #8 2:21
Track 216. Rehearsal #9 4:07
Track 217. Take 1 (Breakdown) 0:15
Track 218. Take 2 2:41
Track 219. Rehearsal #10 1:38
Track 220. Rehearsal #11 2:19
John Sinclair
Track 221. Demo 2:32
Angela
Track 222. JJ (Take 1) 1:15
Track 223. JJ (Take 2) 1:09
Track 224. People 1:54
1971 Demos
Track 225. Send Me Some Lovin’ 3:13
Track 226. He Got The Blues 2:37
Track 227. I Ain’t Got Time 3:09
Track 228. She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain 1:02
60 mins
Disc 3
‘Sometime In New York City’ - Studio Jam Session
Track 301. Roll Over Beethoven 2:28
Track 302. Honey Don’t 2:59
Track 303. Ain’t That A Shame 2:28
Track 304. My Baby-Not Fade Away 2:26
Track 305. Send Me Some Lovin’ 2:44
Track 306. Whole Lotta Shakin’/It’ll Be Me 5:28
Track 307. Honey Hush 2:10
Track 308. Don’t Be Cruel-Hound Dog 4:25
Track 309. Caribbean 3:07
Attica State Benefit Concert; December 17, 1971
Track 310. Intro 0:56
Track 311. Attica State 3:22
Track 312. Sisters, O Sisters 3:46
Track 313. Imagine 3:03
POP 2; January 8, 1972
Track 314. Bring On The Lucie (Freda People)/Attica State 1:27
Track 315. George Jackson (Improvisation) 0:40
Track 316. Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peopl) #2 0:28
Eyewitness News Rehearsals; August 1972
Track 317. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World 2:48
Track 318. Fools Like Me 1:37
Track 319. Caribbean 1:41
Track 320. Peggy Sue/Bring It On Home 0:57
Track 321. Rock Island Line 1:47
Track 322. Maybe Maybe 1:45
Track 323. Peggy Sue 0:20
53 mins
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30 Responses to “JOHN LENNON - SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY SESSIONS”
Rumor has it John had a Lil Un
By U L E on Dec 8, 2020
The Lilst of the Fab Four
By U L E on Dec 8, 2020
John was 40 when he passed and it’s been 40 years since that fateful December 8th evening. What a loss for the world that is still being felt today.Imagine the music he might have created had he lived to be 80. RIP John
By Roger S on Dec 8, 2020
Thanks Big O.
This album was certainly not one of Lennon’s best, but the Sessions and Demos is an important link in his legacy.
By Macca on Dec 8, 2020
It was a Monday night dec 8 1980 . I had been out having a few drinks in a bar . I turned on the TV set and Monday night football was on . Howard Cosell then made his famous declaration that John Lennon had been shot , went to the hospital and was dead on arrival. I had a bit of a buzz from the alcohol and thought someone had spiked my drink with acid . Couldn’t believe it , but it was true . John was gone . The following six months were very sad . The album double fantasy had just been released. Remember skipping the Yoko songs and just listening to Johns , like most people I’m sure .
By Bill on Dec 8, 2020
The song Woman was on the radio after the tragedy. It was off of double fantasy. Became a huge hit . I remember how sad listening to that song was . Very emotional. Would tear up listening to it on the car radio which at the time was a 78 trans am . I believe if John had lived the Beatles definitely would have gotten back together. The anger was gone and everyone was being friendly again . Thanks to Mr Chapman, We’ll never know .
By Bill on Dec 8, 2020
“But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see”
“It’s for the working class not for the tarts and fags”
‘Working Class Hero’
By swappers on Dec 8, 2020
Let’s talk about penis . I’m gay for penis
By U L E on Dec 8, 2020
Track #323 just has to be my all time favorite Lennon track ever!!
By HHH on Dec 8, 2020
He had been putting the finishing touches on Yoko’s greatest song EVER. Walking on Thin Ice. Just listen to that soaring guitar solo of his and crank it up today!
Classic Teamwork!
Thanks John.
By BigE on Dec 8, 2020
Why am I the only one here who will discuss penis ? You guys need to join the conversation . I feel like I’m wasting my time here
By U L E on Dec 9, 2020
Fuck John Lennon anyway….It was a GREAT day that anti-christian mother was taken down…Chapman deserves a purple heart…burn in Hell for all eternity you bastard. ..beatles are shit anyway
By U L E hater on Dec 9, 2020
Omg those are disgusting comments to make. What kind of sick bastard are you? This was a decent, human, big hearted family man. His murder is just one more shameful and horrible thing to add to a long long list of such things
By Ban The Sickos on Dec 9, 2020
Like a nightclub in the morning, you’re the bitter end
Like a recently disinfected shithouse, you’re clean round the bend
You give me the horrors
Too bad to be true
All of my tomorrows
Are lousy ’cause of you
You put the Shat in Shatter
Put the Pain in Spain
Your germs are splattered about
Your face is just a stain
You’re certainly no raver, commonly known as a drag
Do us all a favour, here, wear this polythene bag
You’re like a dose of scabies
I’ve got you under my skin
You make life a fairytale
. . . . . . Grimm!
People mention murder, the moment you arrive
I’d consider killing you, if I thought you were alive
You’ve got this slippery quality
It makes me think of phlegm
And a dual personality
I hate both of them
You’re bad breath, vamps disease, destruction, and decay
Please, please, please, please, take yourself away
Like a death at a birthday party
You ruin all the fun
Like a sucked and spat-our Smartie
You’re no use to anyone
Like the shadow of the guillotine
On a dead consumptive’s face
Speaking as an outsider
What do you think of the human race?
You went to a progressive psychiatrist
He recommended suicide
Before scratching your bad name off his list
And pointing the way outside
You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fart
You’re heading for a breakdown
Better pull yourself apart
Your dirty name gets passed about when something goes amiss
Your attitudes are platitudes
Just make me wanna piss
What kind of creature bore you
Was it some kind of bat?
They can’t find a good word for you
But I can . . . . . .
Twat!
[Dr. John Cooper-Clarke]
By the (only) real swappers on Dec 9, 2020
er it was Mark Chapman! . . . . sheesh dumb as a stick
who’s David?
By the real swappers on Dec 9, 2020
hahahahhahhahahhahahhaa. your too much idiot. imbecilic responses from a man that should be euthanized
By swappers the demon on Dec 9, 2020
how bout u crochet me a jock strap
By swappers the demon on Dec 9, 2020
And line it with fur so I think it’s a woman….or a barnyard animal.
By swappers the demon on Dec 9, 2020
Hilarious that you can spell “euthanized” but not “you’re”. Who’s the idiot now?
Un.
By U L E on Dec 9, 2020
Oh god the intellectuals are back . . . . .FFS
keyboard warriors threatening folks with euthanasia, hilarious, the wit the badinage the sheer unbounded joyous chutzpah!
Mummy must be SO proud . . ..dumb as soup
By swappers on Dec 9, 2020
Folk like you should be treated like a nigger. Lynched and burned. Would love to watch your lifeless body sway in the breeze. I doubt you know this song. Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday. Read the lyrics dumbass. Lord how I wish that was you.Tired of your witless, rhetorical and inane responses. Dumb as a bag of nails. Just shut the up and sit at the kiddie table brainless toad
By swappers the demon on Dec 9, 2020
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha are you inbred? I assume so . . . . ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha you citer Strange Fruit a classic 1937 poem by a Russian, turned anti-lynching song by Billie a couple of years later in one of the usual numbnut racist diatribes?! . . . . . ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
dumb insensitive and alt right as a small damp pebble
you red neck asshole - perhaps you will UNDERSTAND that!
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folk like you should have stayed in ’skool’ ignorant ape
By swappers on Dec 9, 2020
Aktion T4-too bad the nazis missed you cesspool swappers.one less cretin. i will haunt you every day you lowlife piece of shit. you can count on that turdbrain
By gay swappers on Dec 9, 2020
the name of your pimp father who raped your whore mother to conceive the obnoxious lil schoolboy. maybe some of your family were rounded up and shot by the nazis. That would be a joyous occasion
By gay swappers on Dec 9, 2020
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Exactly what I want
Poor little brain dead moron!
Living in your pointed little head for free
Amateur!
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By swappers on Dec 10, 2020
Shut the FUCK up, “Bill”, you asshole!
Fuck you too U L E and fake swappers!
Why won’t my fucking meds work???
“Eli, Freddie Fender, CJ, Groupie Chick Traci, Derrick, U L E, Terrence, Bill, Smashmouth - You’ve really gone rabid repeating and talking to yourself. When you are treated like an adult, you ask for supervision/moderation! The word is self-restraint. Isn’t it obvious why you are not at other sites? They’ve have long banned you.”
By bigozine2 on Apr 26, 2018
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=4007#comment-2899390
By Corey M on Dec 10, 2020
Even after 40 years, I’m still sad … R.I.P. John. And thanks, BigO!
By Josef (Czech republic) on Dec 10, 2020
First two were me . The rest all fakes
By U L E on Dec 10, 2020
I’m a fake , so it’s confusing
By U L E on Dec 11, 2020
I’m a piece of shit for saying that
By U L E on Dec 11, 2020