John Lennon
The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes
Volumes 15 & 16
(Walrus 026/027)
Volume 15
01. Steel And Glass (8-track tape version with extended fade out)
02. Beef Jerky (8-track tape version)
03. You Saved My Soul (Nov. 1980 electric guitar demo)
04. Serve Yourself (early 1980 piano demo)
05. Memories (take #1- an evolved version of Tennessee found on LLT Vol. No. 1)
06. Real Life (piano demo #2)
07. Watching The Wheels (piano version mid 1980)
08. Don’t Be Crazy (piano version mid 1980-later evolved into Starting Over)
09. Woman (June 1980 Bermuda demo)
10. (Just Like) Starting Over (initial acoustic demo-combining elements of – My Life/Don’t Be Crazy/The Worst Is Over)
11. I Don’t Want To Face It (guitar demo at the Dakota in 1977)
12. Nobody Told Me (double tracked demo from summer of 1980)
13. Real Love (piano demo for unrealized Broadway musical)
14. I’m Losing You (early studio version featuring members of Cheap Trick)
15. Beautiful Boy (take #1 August 1980)
16. Nobody Told Me (take #1)
17. Clean Up Time (rough mix of backing track)
18. (Just Like) Starting Over (rough mix without many of the overdubs)
19. If I Fell (John’s 1963 composition tape)
20. I Sat Belonely
21. Foyle’s Speech
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Volume 16
01. National Health Cow (speech to honor John for his book “In His Own Write”)
02. Strawberry Fields Forever (home demo)
03. Get It Together (peace message from John and Yoko 1969)
04. Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) (different mix with Harlem Choir)
05. Power to The People (early raggae version)
06. Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog (1972 One-One rehearsal)
07. I’m The Greatest (rough mix of Ringo’s version)
08. I Know (1973 acoustic demo)
09. Rock and Roll People (piano demo)
10. Meat City (take#1 and take #2 electric guitar demos)
11. Meat City (alternate take)
12. One Day At A Time (alternate mix)
13. Only People (alternate mix)
14. Tight A$ (alternate mix)
15. You Are Here (alternate mix)
16. Going Down On Love (1974 acoustic demo)
17. No. 9 Dream (monitor mix of early version)
18. Whatever Gets You Through The Night (quadrophonic 8-track mix)
19. John on KHJ-AM radio in Los Angeles
20. Do You Wanna Dance (monitor mix of alternate take)
21. You Can’t Catch Me (alternate take)
22. Free As A Bird (take 3-from John’s husband years 1975-1979)
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Silvers > EAC > TLH > Hunger City
Some of these discs did not line up with the covers
Splitting tracks and combining tracks where required has remedied that.
Audacity, CD Wav and Traders Little Helper were used for the repairs
Some of the covers also required small tweeks to repair typos.
Disc No. 16 listed Surprise Surprise but it was not on the disc.
The exact same Free as A Bird was repeated on the CD so one of them was removed.
Not altogether a Direct transfer but an improved version of the Silvers with these errors corrected.