John Lennon And Yoko Ono Rolling Stones
In december 1970 just months after the break up of the beatles was announced john lennon sat down with rolling stone founder jann wenner alongside his wife yoko ono for an exclusive and wide ranging interview.
John lennon and yoko ono rolling stones. John lennon yoko ono photograph by annie leibovitz john and yoko get cheeky. The show was filmed on a makeshift circus stage with jethro tull the who taj mahal marianne faithfull and the rolling stones. In what was intended as a conversation designed to promote lennon s debut solo album john lennon plastic ono band turned into a wide ranging tell all and untethered insight into his emotions his future plans home truths about the fab four s split and plenty more to boot. In a way the track with coleman is the weakest.
Couples on the cover. The event was filmed on this day at intertel an independent video facility at stonebridge house in wembley london. While the famous rolling stone image is sometimes called the final photograph of lennon it is in fact only the final portrait of him and yoko together the final photo of john was taken a few. Yoko is into her ohh john riff and ornette.
This article appeared in the march 7 1970 issue of rolling stone. Pepper ensign richard chamberlain s poster collage of news clippings of the stones bust the time magazine cover of the beatles. On this day john lennon and yoko ono were among guests performing on the rolling stones television spectacular rock and roll circus. The footage was captured on video and film with sound recorded by glyn johns and jimmy miller on olympic s mobile studio.
The rolling stones rock and roll circus was a concert show organised by the rolling stones on 11 december 1968. John lennon and his fiancee yoko ono also performed as part of a one shot supergroup called the dirty mac featuring eric clapton mitch mitchell and. The meeting which was initially arranged as an attempt for lennon to promote his primal therapy inspired album john lennon plastic ono band originally resulted in an outpouring of. In a raw candid interview john lennon talks about beatles breakup yoko why john lennon plastic ono band is the best thing i ve ever done rolling stone send a tip.