John Lennon
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RECPRDPLANT REHEARSALS - JULE 13, 1974: Steel and glass Going down on love Moce over Mrs. L Surprise, surprise Beef Jerkey Scared Old dirt road Bless you Whatever gets you through the night Nobody loves you (when you're down and out) ALTERNATE TAKES AND ROUGH MIXES - JULE, 1974 Move over MRs. L Bless you BEeef Jerkey Whatever gets you through the night WHat you got Move over Mrs. L Whatever gets you through the night (It's all da-da-da-down to) Good night Vienna

RECORD PLANT REMIX SESSIONS Bless you Move over Mrs. L Scared Surprise, surprise Whatever gets you through the night Going down on love NObody loves you WHatever gets you throught the night What you got (3 versions) Old dirt road Steel and glass RECORD PLANT MONITOR MIXES - JULY, 1974 #9 dream Old dirt road Steel and glass

HOME RECORDINGS 73/74: #9 dream (two versions) Move over MRs. L (2 versions) Hwatever gets you through the night (3 versions) What you got (2 versions) Surprise, surprise (2 versions) Nobody loves you Going down on love (4 versions) Steel and glass Improvisation/ The boat song

Vigotone continues its collection of "making of"'s with thie 3 CD set which registers the genesis of "Walls and bridges". To me, "Walls and bridges" is perhaps the most enigmatic album in John's collection. These songs just seem to come from somewhere else. That's obvious on "#9 dream", but a oniric feel is on the other tracks too.

Above all, these demos let us know about John magic talent. The album itself is wonderfully produced, but the simple demos gave no clue about what the songs could become. SO it always seemed that this is an important difference between John's and Paul's ways of composing. While Paul will make of his demos real full-band studio recordings, John will always get a simple acoustic gutiar, or piano on a drum box. It was almost like he was capable of listening to the entire orchestration, with band and choir, on his head, while he was composing. He knew what that rough sketch would sound like, just as if writing to him was an act of faith.