Lost John Lennon Tapes: She's a Friend a Dorothy, Whatever Happened To, Mirror Mirror On the Wall

"She's a Friend a Dorothy" (0:00), "Whatever Happened To..." (3:56), "Mirror Mirror On the Wall" (8:25). This video is the first of two parts covering all of Lennon's last songs that have been left unreleased. Part two will feature the final three completely unreleased songs - all from 1980. Follow   / thefutureheart   for updates. On December 8, 1970 John Lennon was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine (Jann Wenner) in support of his new album, "Plastic Ono Band" (released December 11th). Full of bold, "Beatle myth"-busting statements about their image ("The Beatles' tours were like Fellini's Satyricon"), their fans ("I resent performing for fucking idiots"), and their accomplishments ("I don't care about the whole conept of 'Pepper'") - as well as candid comments on drugs, Yoko and the cultural changes of the past decade, it's perhaps the most famous interview in rock history. Exactly one decade later -- December 8, 1980 - John and Yoko were photgraphed in their apartment by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone's feauture on their recently released album, "Double Fantasy". Just as the former LP -- and its companion interviews - saw John's stripping away the aura of the Beatles at the dawn of the '70s, the latter album -- and its companion interviews (most famously in Newsweek, Playboy and Rolling Stone) - offered candid reflections of a middle-aged couple that "survived the '70s" and was optimistic about growing old together and raising their "beautiful boy." Needless to say, that never happened, as John was gunned down later that same day outside his apartment. These are the songs John worked on in that apartment during his years out of the public eye and without a record contract. These are the songs that captured him between the post-therapy, ex-Beatle Rolling Stone interviewed in 1970 and the house-husband eager for a star comeback. As 1977 turned to '78 Lennon was secretly working on "The Ballad of John and Yoko", a planned Broadway musical about his life and wife. He wrote program notes (posthumously published in "Skywriting By Word of Mouth" - notable for his blunt recounting of his life with Yoko and his priories at that point, "I've already 'lost' one family to produce what? "Sgt Pepper"? I am blessed with a second chance. Being a Beatle almost cost me my life, and certainly cost me a great deal of my health... I will not make the same mistake twice..."). He also wrote new music for "The Ballad of John and Yoko": three of the songs for the tentative musical have since been released with posthumous production added ("Real Love", "Free as a Bird" and Yoko's "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him"). Three others circulate only in bootleg forms: "She's a Friend a Dorothy" (0:00), "Whatever Happened To..." (3:56) and "Mirror Mirror On the Wall" (8:25). Listen to more demos: I Don't Want to Lose You    • Видео   Evolution of Nobody Told Me demos    • Видео