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JOHN & YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY

EAGLE VISION

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JOHN LENNON knew exactly what he was doing. He was going to make an album that would establish him as a fully fledged solo act, one to prove that going primal on Plastic Ono Band and becoming a “conceptual artist” like Yoko didn’t mean he’d lost his touch as a mainstream hitmaker. He’d already written the songs.

The album would be made at home in Tittenhurst Park, his and Yoko’s Ascot pile, using its recently completed home studio. And it would be filmed, all of it, both the recording sessions and John’n’Yoko’s life together.

Among the resultant footage was the shoot for “Imagine”, one of the world’s first and

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