Rare Recording of Inebriated John Lennon for Sale
 

Rare Recording of Inebriated John Lennon for Sale

Posted Dec 19th 2008 6:02PM by Jared Paul Stern
Filed under: Auctions






A rare, never-publicly-heard recording of a drunk and high John Lennon improvising naughty song lyrics is on offer for an estimated $30,000 - $40,000 at Bonhams' Entertainment Sale in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The six minute audiocasette, recorded in the fall of 1973, features Lennon's off-the-cuff rendition of the Lloyd Price song "Just Because." The recording took place during what Lennon referred to as his "Lost Weekend" when he and Yoko Ono separated and he took up with mistress May Pang.

The cassette is an outtake from a recording session for the song, which was included on Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. At the time, while working on the album with Phil Spector in Los Angeles, Lennon was heavily into drink and drugs, as reflected in the recording.

Though some of Lennon's lyrics are garbled, he can be heard to sing, in part, "I wanna take all them new singers, Carol and the other one with the nipples, I wanna take 'em and hold 'em tight, all them people that James Taylor had...I wanna suck your nipples, baby... Just a little cocaine will set me right."

What a dirty bastard.

"...Carol and the other one with the nipples"

"Carol" is obviously Carole King and "the one with the nipples" has got to be Carly Simon (see the "No Secrets" LP 1972. plus the James Taylor line)

Lennon was a funny motherfucker yo!

He like it raw.

He wanted to re-decorate some walls with carly and carol.

Thank God for the credit crunch.