Posted on 12/22/2008 1:50:24 PM PST by weegee
A cassette tape of a "drunk" John Lennon recording a cover version of a rock 'n' roll song has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $30,000 (£20,200).
The six-minute recording, made in autumn 1973, is of Lennon performing Lloyd Price's Just Because.
"Debauched lyrics" improvised by "a drunk Lennon" include "just a little cocaine will set me right", auction house Bonhams and Butterfields said...
Lennon's "slurred warbling" included, "I wanna take all them new singers, Carol and the other one with the nipples, I wanna take 'em and hold 'em tight," Bonhams and Butterfields said.
"The background band speeds up or slows down, trying to keep up with him until a male voice finally calls an end to the session after a little over six minutes," the auction house's listing added.
The tape has never been heard in public.
The song was recorded during the 18-month period Lennon later called his "lost weekend", when he left his wife Yoko Ono and moved from New York to Los Angeles.
A more coherent version of the song eventually appeared on Lennon's covers album, Rock 'n' Roll - produced by Phil Spector - in 1975.
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Not surprising coming from that lowlife vermin.
But, instant Karma got him.
Any guess who these women could be?
An extended weekend. Imagine that. It's not so easy if you try.
You might not agree with his politics, but the Lennon/Mcartney team wrote a LOT of good music.
Carole King and Carly Simon (No Secrets cover)?
Is that John F’n to his left, or another Photo shop?
It was John F. Kerry’s attempt at being “hip” by showing him next to a man who’d plotted to spike President Nixon’s coffee with LSD.
He also offered up his high school party rock cover band’s album as “proof” that he was hipper than Bush. On the back cover of that album, Kerry claimed he was from Oslo. Doofus.
I love Lennon’s music.
Lots of Yoko CD's still available for your Christmas Stocking Stuffers!!!!!
The original no-talent performance artist.
Who made it big by marrying big.
My God! Have you heard her sing?!
Why, it’s Yoko Oh No!
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