"New" Lennon Tracks On Upcoming Soundtrack CD

Unreleased Lennon Cuts Enrich Documentary Soundtrack

July 27, 2006, 2:45 PM ET

Jill Menze, N.Y.
The soundtrack to the upcoming documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon"
will be released on CD and digitally Sept. 26 via Capitol/EMI. The
album will feature 19 original Lennon songs including "Imagine,"
"Instant Karma (We All Shine On)" and "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," as
well as two previously unreleased tracks: "Attica State," recorded live
at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1971, and
the film's instrumental version of "How Do You Sleep."

Additionally, the CD and digital packaging will include liner notes
written exclusively for the release by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.

The controversial documentary explores the government's attempts at
silencing Lennon as a proponent of humanitarian and anti-war causes,
which included FBI surveillance, wiretapping and deportation
proceedings. The story is told through archival film clips as well as
Lennon's original music.

"We were allowed to 'strip' lead vocals from Lonnon's original
recordings, so that we could use his own instrumental work as the score
for the movie," says David Leaf, who co-wrote, directed and produced
the film along with John Scheinfeld. "I think it's the first time that
John's solo catalog can be heard in this way."

"The U.S. vs. John Lennon," distributed by Lions Gate Films, will be
released in New York and Los Angeles on Sept. 15, with a wide release
scheduled for the end of the month.

Healthy Stealthy...

Hath Yoko no shame?
I'm still finding it hard to forgive her for releasing Nobody Told Me
There'd be Days Like These! YUK!!!!!!!!!!

rianpstein...

Hey, that was a cool track! What I don`t need is another
Lennon-compilation.
But give me near-finished unreleased songs anyday!

Runnnerr...

Nobody Told Me, finished or not, is one oh John's best. I suggest that
you give it another listen.

DanKaye...

I basically agree. Maybe not one of his "best" but one of my
favorites, in any case.

rforman61...

Wow, I'd think you were kidding (if I didn't realize that people can
have differing opinions!)
I think pretty much all John's songs from that era are pretty lame, NTM
one of the most. Watching the Wheels is also pretty dismal IMO. It's
not so much the songs but the arrangement and production, very
lifeless, flat, unvarying, repetitive, lacking edge, and energy.

F Parella...

Those last songs of Lennon's all sound like demos to me. They needed
more work. I read that Lennon and Jack Douglas had plans to bring in
more people have more work done on them...but the guy's astrological
charts were "wrong" or something.

teranewsguy...

NTM was unfinished so it is somewhat immune to that critique, but I happen
to love both songs. I only wish the rather corny woodblock/cowbell thing
had been removed from NTM.

tom...

I'm with you Rich....dismal, mundane stuff that sounds bad and is sung
with a voice that had gotten so whispy and thin it's hard to believe
it's the same man who sang "No Reply."

And ...TURN OFF THE ECHO. TURN THE ECHO OFF JOHN....it doesn't make
your voice sound better...it makes it sound like I'm at a Drive In.
John, stop...TURN OFF THE ECHO....

Danny Caccavo...

"Turn off the bubble machine-a...wunnerful, wunnerful..."

Bill Kawalec...

heh. wonder how many get a Freberg reference.