The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume Four

Volume 4 in a series of boots featuring tracks used in the syndicated US radio series "The Lost Lennon Tapes", originally broadcast from Jan 1988 through March 1992. Sound quality ranges from very good to excellent. TRACK DETAILS A1 Revolution; mono re-mix, John's guitar and Nicky Hopkin's piano not audible, 1968, tagged with the stereo intro and ending A2 Power To The People,early alternate take, Jan 1971 (stereo) A3-A5 Attica State; Live, at the "Free John Sinclair" rally at Ann Arbor on 10th December 1971 A6 Mannish Boy (incorrectly listed as I'm A Man); John's take on Muddy Waters, Dakota demo, 1978 A7-A8 'Twas A Night Like Ethel Merman/Medley: Beyond The Sea/Blue Moon/Young Love; John messing around at home, 1978 B1 Clean-Up Time; alternate mix, fall 1980 B2 Good Morning Good Morning; early home demo, Jan/Feb 1967 B3 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey; Beatles' White Album Esher demos, May 1968 B4 Everyone Had A Hard Year; home demo, late 1968 (later incorporated into I've Got a Feeling) B5 Brown Eyed Handsome Man; Dakota 1978 B6 Serve Yourself; piano demo, Aug 1980 B7-B8 Lord, Take This Make-Up Off Of Me-The News Of The Day (From Reuters); Bob Dylan parodies, Dakota late 70s From back of jacket: Revolution is a significantly remixed version of The Beatles single (Nicky Hopkins piano and John's guitar are not audible on this version). Good Morning Good Morning is John's original demo from early 1967. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (officially known as Come On Come On at the time of this recording) is the Beatles demo version. Everyone Had A Hard Year is John's demo from 1968; this song was eventually incorporated into I've Got A Feeling from Get Back/Let It Be. Attica State, The Luck Of The Irish and John Sinclair are live stereo recordings from the 'Free John Sinclair Rally' that took place in ann Arbor, Michigan on December 10, 1971. Clean-Up Time is an unreleased mix of the Double Fantasy track. Power to The People is an early alternate take. I'm A Man, Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (interpolating Get Back), the train-of-thought recitation Twas A Night Like Ethel Merman and the oldies Medley (featuring Beyond The Sea in broken French) are Dakota cassette recordings. The three final tracks on the album are some of John's Bob Dylan parodies. Serve Yourself features a piano accompaniment and 'clean' lyrics. the more notorious guitar-accompanied version with considerably saltier words may be found on the Yin Yang LP (Bag Records 5071). Note on cover backside: "Jacket printed in Canada".