Lead guitarist name for "I'm Losing You"?

I was just curious who played lead guitar for Lennon's "I'm Losing
You," from Double Fantasy (like there was any other... : )

Anyhoo, any help would be appreciated. I did a quickie search on the
net for the info and didn't find anything.

ACankersore...

That guy from Cheap Trick?

cuppajoe2go...

The credited guitarists on the album are (John Lennon), Earl Slick, and
Hugh McCracken. I think the story was the Cheap Trick guys did an
earlier version of it, but they opted for the studio guys instead.

neptune...

I believe the guitarist is Earl Slick. The Cheap Trick version is on
the Lennon Anthology.

draw Tippy...

Yep. Sounds like Slick, to my ears.

fattuchus...

The version on Lennon Anthology is excellent. It really rocks. Some
believe it is superior to the more "mellow" one on Double Fantasy.

Runnnerr...

Yes, and of course, the Yoke, that walking encyclopedia of musical
knowledge nixed their version because she thought that Cheap Trick was
trying to cash in on John's success. This was at a time of course, when
Cheap Trick were at their peak, commercially and popularly.

Thanks Yoke. Go figure.

fattuchus...

Yes, I understand that is what happened. Ironic, isn't it? . . . . .
the fact that The Yoke would blame other people for trying to cash in
on John.

I wonder how and why it came about that the Yoke decided to use the
Cheap Trick version on Lennon Anthology.

Runnnerr...

Well, Jack Douglas had worked with them before and perhaps in a moment
of weakness she accepted his suggestion that they play with John.
Later, coming to her senses and realizing that Cheap Trick was a
nothing band who would simply cash in on their playing with John, she
nixed the take. Of course, no one had heard of Cheap Trick in 1980 and
they'd sold only a couple of albums at the time. They weren't getting
any radio play and their Budokan album was going nowhere. As I said, a
little nothing band who no one had ever heard of.

DC...

I'm thinking Earl Slick.