{"id":23645,"date":"2022-09-05T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23645"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:25:08","slug":"john-lennon-five-sessions-outside-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/john-lennon-five-sessions-outside-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon: Five Sessions Outside the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>More of my &#8220;Take Five&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John Lennon is rarely thought of as a session musician; nearly all of his work was within the context of The Beatles, with wife Yoko Ono and\/or his own Plastic Ono Band. But between 1965 and his death in 1980, Lennon participated in several notable projects involving other artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Silkie \u2013 \u201cYou&#8217;ve Got to Hide Your Love Away\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 A rare outside project during the Beatles\u2019 heyday, this 1965 recording by Hull University folk-pop vocal group featured Lennon as producer, plus Paul McCartney on guitar and George Harrison on tambourine. The song made the Top 40 in the U.K. and USA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GcK2dhpg8_s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elton John \u2013 \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 John joined his friend Elton John for a cover of the Beatles classic; it was a return favor for Elton\u2019s duet with Lennon on the hit single \u201cWhatever Gets You Thru the Night.\u201d Late that year John guested onstage at Madison Square Garden, performing the song with Elton\u2019s band; it would be his last concert appearance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5EOFnnBQjp8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bowie \u2013 \u201cFame\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 John Lennon rarely co-wrote with anyone outside of Paul McCartney (and later Yoko Ono). This hit track off Bowie\u2019s <em>Young Americans<\/em> LPs is a brilliant and notable exception. Lennon also sang and played acoustic guitar on the recording.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ypgq0qdgVZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Nilsson \u2013 \u201cRock Around the Clock\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 Recorded during John\u2019s infamous \u201clost weekend\u201d in Los Angeles, this Brandy Alexander-fueled reading of the Bill Haley classic was produced and arranged by Lennon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jb638bhiobo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheap Trick \u2013 \u201cI&#8217;m Losing You\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 The sessions for <em>Double Fantasy<\/em> included some of music\u2019s top session players. But on at least one occasion, Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick joined Lennon in the studio to cut a searing version of this song. The recording was shelved in favor of another take, but finally appeared on 1998\u2019s <em>John Lennon Anthology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZae6fbxItI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of my &#8220;Take Five&#8221;&#8230; John Lennon is rarely thought of as a session musician; nearly all of his work was within the context of The Beatles, with wife Yoko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,62],"tags":[501,633,3774,972,1183,4921],"class_list":["post-23645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","category-rawk","tag-cheap-trick","tag-david-bowie","tag-elton-john","tag-harry-nilsson","tag-john-lennon","tag-the-silkie","cat-27-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23646,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions\/23646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}