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Unearthed John & Yoko Footage Wed to New Ultimate Mix of “Look at Me” – American Songwriter

Unearthed John & Yoko Footage Wed to New Ultimate Mix of “Look at Me” – American Songwriter

Unearthed John & Yoko Footage Wed to New Ultimate Mix of “Look at Me” – American Songwriter
April 28
12:11 2021

Featured on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection, the new video is released in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lennon’s first solo work

Because of the fundamental existential queries Lennon poses in the gentle “Look At Me,” it was assumed that it was triggered by Dr. Janov and his Primal Scream therapy. It’s an easy mistake to make, as it embodies that raw yearning at the heart of this album which was mostly Janov-inspired. Yet it preceded Primal Scream and the other songs.

“A couple of tracks, ” Lennon said, “which one would suppose were written under therapy, like ‘Look At Me’, were written pre-Janov, about a year before therapy. But the theme was the same: ‘Look at me’, ‘Who am I?’, all that jazz. So that’s why I stuck it on that album. But actually it had come from beforehand.”

“All that jazz.” After the dream was over, as Lennon declared when his band broke-up, he began to delve into the truth of his own identity. Going non-stop for a decade in the “greatest show on earth,” as he wrote in “I’m The Greatest,” he wanted to know what it was worth. Who was John Lennon without the other Fab Three?

Gently rendered with one voice against the acoustic guitar finger-picking style he learned from Donovan in India (which he used first on “Julia” and “Dear Prudence”), the song shines light into the uncertain truth in his soul. This same songwriter–one of the greatest, most important and beloved artists of our time–wrote songs like “Help” and “I’m A Loser” which revealed the real John.

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Martin Nethercutt

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Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music. Creative Director at McCartney Studios Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc. Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel Lives in Playa del Rey From Kassel, Germany Married to Ruth McCartney

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