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Related: About this forumImagine: Previously Unseen Footage Of John Lennon And George Harrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=FoJQAyrUHhAThis previously unseen video, which includes the raw studio mix of the audio, completely unadorned, comes ahead of the Oct. 5 release of a 6-CD box set, Imagine - The Ultimate Collection. John Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, was released in Sep. 1971, just about two years after The Beatles went their separate ways. John Lennon said that this song was a response to lyrics on Paul McCartney's own solo album, Ram, that Lennon felt were directed at him. (Give a listen to "Too Many People" and "Back Seat of My Car" and you'll hear what Lennon was referring to.) Yoko Ono, who sat in on and co-produced these recording sessions, wrote to us to say that "John wrote many great songs, some tender and some mean... ... people thought this was about Paul, and Paul seems to have thought that too, so too bad it wasn't played too much."
The 120-page book included with the box set contains this from John Lennon: "If I can't have a fight with my best friend I don't know who I can have a fight with. I think it's quite funny and I was laughing when we were making it and listening to it. I was laughing at his later, but first I was saying, 'Oh, I see, that's what he thinks,' huffing and puffing."
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/09/21/649670665/imagine-previously-unseen-footage-of-john-lennon-and-george-harrison?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180921
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Imagine: Previously Unseen Footage Of John Lennon And George Harrison. (Original Post)
Cattledog
Sep 2018
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. "people thought this was about Paul"
Gee I wonder why people would have thought that.
Cartoonist
(7,579 posts)2. All you did was yesterday
Now you're just another day
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. Exactly
It seems extremely obviously about Paul.