Glass Onion: On John Lennon – Details, episodes & analysis

And so the next century of Glass Onion begins. We’ve got another fine 2-parter for you, with Antony joined by Dave Thurmaier, the co-host of the ‘I’ve Got A Beatles Podcast’ and former guest of the show way back in 2019 and 2020.

The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert of September 1969 yielded a live album for John & Yoko plus D.A. Pennebaker’s film ‘Sweet Toronto’ (which will be reviewed in the next episode) and most recently a fantastic 2022 documentary by Ron Chapman.

This latter doc is the focus of part 1 of our talk, and before that Antony and Dave discuss Beatle releases of the past year such as the ‘Now And Then’ song and video and the new Mind Games box set.

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Dave’s podcast

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episode links

Revival ’69 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSK2dycpB0

The Plastic Ono Band set (to be fully reviewed in the next episode)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiSf0gY_X6k

The Doors play ‘The End’ in Toronto (video from Isle of Wight 1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ewoypJQUI

Bo Diddley and his riff at Toronto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50nxR2Xz10

Alice Cooper and the feral chicken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq9bEzADxyk

John, Yoko & Zappa play ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_sQLIUi0mQ

John Lennon 1976 interview (1980 schtick in place)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4tAmScwAQ4

Mike Tree on ‘Something About The Beatles’ podcast

https://somethingaboutthebeatles.com/2024/03/10/277-mike-tree-in-nutopia-with-michael-meideros/

Over 4 years on from our original episode about ‘Revolution 9’ (episode 25, in the show notes), we return to the topic with an audio version (including multiple sound clips) of a discussion that originally went out on video on Matt Williamson’s excellent you tube channel ‘Pop Goes The 60s’ back in March.

We discuss our origin stories with the track, it’s conception and recording, some of the ‘musique concrete’ works that influenced it, the other Beatles’ reaction to it and a few other things.

This is preceded by Antony’s thoughts on the new version of the ‘Let It Be’ film and some discussion/defence of Albert Goldman from a Mojo magazine special about John Lennon.

There are multiple links below to some interesting work, including quite a few avant-garde pieces that may not seem accessible but do have some rewards to be found if the mood is right, rather like ‘Revolution 9’ itself.

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The ‘Pop Goes The 60s’ you tube channel and the video version of this discussion

https://www.youtube.com/@popgoesthe60s52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WIuYjjARrw&t=1s

episode links

The original Glass Onion episode on Revolution 9

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-25-revolution-9-john-lennon-drugs-vietnam-and-everyday-life

Revolution 9 songfacts

https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/revolution-9/

Revolution 9 isolated tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQ6lStuJwA

Revolution1 take 18 (the origin of Rev 9)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3glcY2LQIk

‘Avant-Garde’ and ‘Musique Concrete’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te

Giles Martin mixes critiqued

https://somethingaboutthebeatles.com/2024/06/05/283-giles-on-trial-the-reissues-critiqued-with-john-leckie-and-jerry-hammack/

Liverpool vs Albert Goldman (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmQHhXRS7uU

One Hour with Albert Goldman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dI8pFvAiak

John Cage’s Rozart Mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICxG_o50y2E

Gesang Der Junglinge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSO3UHKy_g

The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘War Games’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE86UINrJS4

Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBfHy2qNeA

Dream Scene from the ‘Wonderwall’ film (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779ZlgO9low

2001: A Space Odyssey Stargate sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6JNQwPWE0&t=57s

Salvador Dali dream sequence from Hitchcock’s ‘Spellbound’ (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDmLbMrAjc

Ken McNab and I complete our discussion about his new book 'Shake It Up Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania And The Mayhem of 1963' and the general atmosphere and events of that breathless year. This time round, we cover the second half of the year as our four intrepid musical explorers continue their furious work rate and have their first proper brushes with the British establishment.

They also record and release their second album and yet more seminal singles, and slowly set their sights on the ‘land of milk and honey’ across the Atlantic while conquering their homeland completely and finding time to record the first of their special Christmas messages for their growing number of fan club members…

Links to Ken’s work can be found below

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links to Ken’s 1963 book and his other work

https://books.telegraph.co.uk/Product/Ken-McNab/Shake-It-Up-Baby--The-Rise-of-Beatlemania-and-the-Mayhem-of-1963/28593694

https://www.waterstones.com/author/ken-mcnab/1270697

Ken’s previous appearances on Glass Onion

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-17-and-in-the-end-with-ken-mcnab-part-1-of-2

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-18-and-in-the-end-with-ken-mcnab-part-2-of-2

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-54-john-lennon-albums-ranked-with-kit-otoole-ken-mcnab-part-1-of-2

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-55-john-lennon-albums-ranked-with-kit-otoole-ken-mcnab-part-2-of-2

episode links

Beatles 1963 timeline

https://dmbeatles.com/history.php?year=1963

The Beatles at the London Palladium (October 1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBdUjrkCZ4

The Fabs rock out on Swedish TV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYpVNpXCAls

The Beatles’ ‘rattle yer jewellery’ Royal Variety Show performance (colourised and sound-enhanced)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr5uCSBvhw

The Beatles Come To Town (Manchester 1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-_hRHRtN8Q

The Beatles Xmas Record 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzm8o3ytoRk

Beatles Studio Outtakes (funny!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZupFJVh2dS0

Part 1 of an epic and highly enjoyable talk with Ken McNab, author of a new book called 'And In The End: The Last Days of The Beatles', which takes a month-by-month look at the turbulent, 'heavy' but also highly productive year of 1969 for the band, their final year as a functioning unit.

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link to Ken's book

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-in-the-end-ken-mcnab/1135426608

A very enjoyable talk with Dan Richter, who lived with John & Yoko as their de facto assistant in the early 70s and also worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey. We discuss those topics plus creativity, performance, Swinging London and a few other things.

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links to Dan's website and book

https://danrichter.com/

https://danrichter.com/the-dream-is-over/

A short interlude between interviews, as I read a blog post from 2014 that has a philosophical look at a magic pre-fame night for The Beatles.

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link to original blog post

http://contrafib.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-beatles-and-mass-of-humanity.html

Part 2 of a 2-part discussion with Beatles author and podcaster Kit O'Toole. After finishing off discussion of the 'Between The Lines' bootleg, we proceed to review and analyse the John Lennon songs from the 1980 Record Plant sessions that eventually found their way onto the 'Double Fantasy' and 'Milk Honey' albums as well as some speculation about which genres of music John Lennon might have liked/tackled post-1980

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episode links:

Kit's website

https://kitotoole.com

Ian Hart as John Lennon in Snodgrass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek89aSrwMN0

Part 1 of a 2-part discussion with Beatles author and podcaster Kit O'Toole. After discussing Kit's background, her first forays into writing about the Beatles and John Lennon, and some lesser-known songs featured in her book 'Songs We Were Singing', we finally start talking about John Lennon in the highly contentious years of 1975-80. Part 2 coming very soon

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episode links:

Kit's website

https://kitotoole.com

Kit's book on lesser-known Beatlesongs

https://kitotoole.com/books/songs-we-were-singing-guided-tours-through-the-beatles-lesser-known-tracks/

The conclusion of my talk with Jude Southerland Kessler about John Lennon's breathtaking year of 1964, primarily covering the August/September U.S. tour and analysing some of John Lennon's songs of that year Jude is the author of a multi-part series of books called 'The John Lennon Series', the latest of which covers the year we're discussing.

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link to Jude's series of John Lennon books

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The wonderful Jude Southerland Kessler joins me to talk about John Lennon's breathtaking year of 1964 (in fact, as you'll hear, he barely had time to take a breath!) Jude is the author of a multi-part series of books called 'The John Lennon Series', the latest of which covers the year we're discussing. Part 2 of the talk coming soon!

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Antony's 'Life And Life Only' podcast (on Psychology) https://www.lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com

Glass Onion you tube channel

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link to Jude's series of John Lennon books

https://www.johnlennonseries.com