It's always been thought that John Lennon
videotaped his 1980 studio sessions, but there hasn't been any real
proof. Apparently until now. A four-minute clip featuring inserts of
color footage of Lennon in the studio singing a rough version of the
“Double Fantasy” song “I'm Losing You” backed by members of the band Cheap Trick popped up Aug. 10 on YouTube.
The video compares to the version Cheap Trick themselves posted on You Tube some years ago. But there is new content, such as when the new clip opens, you can hear studio chatter with Lennon saying, “We'll find each other at the end of the lake” and someone playing a riff from “She's a Woman” before the song actually begins. Though bits and pieces of the video show Lennon in the studio, some of the clip (the actual Cheap Trick footage) is from the video for the song Cheap Trick themselves posted in the past. But none of the color footage comes from the earlier video which makes those color segments with Lennon certainly a major find and a revelation.
The audio of the Cheap Trick take is rougher than what was put on “Double Fantasy” and was left off the original album. It first surfaced on “The John Lennon Anthology” and there has been speculation since about why it wasn't originally released. Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen offered one reason in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun. “It never fit with the continuity of the rest of the album,” he told the paper in 2009. “It was sort of embarrassing when people heard we were going to play on the album, then we weren’t on the album.”
The big question would be, obviously, is there more of this new footage to come? Time will certainly tell.
The video compares to the version Cheap Trick themselves posted on You Tube some years ago. But there is new content, such as when the new clip opens, you can hear studio chatter with Lennon saying, “We'll find each other at the end of the lake” and someone playing a riff from “She's a Woman” before the song actually begins. Though bits and pieces of the video show Lennon in the studio, some of the clip (the actual Cheap Trick footage) is from the video for the song Cheap Trick themselves posted in the past. But none of the color footage comes from the earlier video which makes those color segments with Lennon certainly a major find and a revelation.
The audio of the Cheap Trick take is rougher than what was put on “Double Fantasy” and was left off the original album. It first surfaced on “The John Lennon Anthology” and there has been speculation since about why it wasn't originally released. Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen offered one reason in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun. “It never fit with the continuity of the rest of the album,” he told the paper in 2009. “It was sort of embarrassing when people heard we were going to play on the album, then we weren’t on the album.”
The big question would be, obviously, is there more of this new footage to come? Time will certainly tell.
Source:http://www.examiner.com/article/unseen-footage-of-john-lennon-recording-studio-surfaces
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