• Re: John's Planned Follow-up to W&B

    From curtissdubois@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Frank from Deeeetroit on Sat Nov 12 09:06:59 2022
    On Friday, July 16, 2010 at 6:02:54 PM UTC-4, Frank from Deeeetroit wrote:
    On Jul 7, 6:43 pm, F Parella <f_pare...@yahoo.com> wrote:
    It's easy to forget that it was not Lennon's intention, upon returning
    to Ono in 1975, to go creatively dry for the next five years. Indeed, right through approximately March of 1975, he gave every indication of intending to follow his successful Walls and Bridges album not just by getting the problematic "Rock'n'Roll" record behind him, but with
    another album of new material. In fact, according to various sources
    (I am about to provide three, although there are more), this album was
    well underway; a number of songs for it had been written.

    According to Albert Goldman: "Just six weeks earlier, when [John] left
    May Pang, he had been arockin' and arollin' like a young man. Only a
    week before he left Sutton Place [the apartment where JL and May lived together], he had composed two songs, "Popcorn" and "Tennessee," the
    latter not about the American state but about the famous playwright Tennessee Williams, the titles of whose works were skillfully woven
    through the lyric. No sooner was John back at the Dakota, however,
    than he started having trouble with his writing."

    May Pang, meanwhile, says in her book that she and John planned to
    visit New Orleans, where they had been invited by Paul McCartney, who
    was working on an album there. Then, John said, "We'll come back and
    think about a new album." "I felt very happy," May mentions; "The
    John I loved most was the productive John, a man deeply committed to
    making good music..." May says that John actually started writing
    before the New planned Orleans trip. He composed "a sad song that he called 'Tennessee.' It had been inspired by his rereading of
    Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'" Shortly thereafter, according to May, "he had another song, 'Popcorn,' a very funny,
    catchy tune."

    Finally, Lennon himself gave a fascinating interview to Robert Hilburn
    of the LA Times in autumn of 1974. After discussion of Walls and
    Bridges, Lennon mentioned that "I stopped joining in [the partying
    with Nilsson and co.], and I thought, 'This is alright. I'd wake up
    and I didn't feel awful anymore." Lennon discussed touring: "Being
    in front of people on a stage turned out to be great, too, for a
    while." But, he added, "Writing and recording are the best." Lennon admitted that, "If I'm not writing, I get depressed." Hilburn
    concluded that: "With 'Walls and Bridges' finished, Lennon is now
    looking forward to putting the 'oldies' album together, and then work
    on his next solo album: "I'm writing now. I've already finished
    three tunes. It's going well. I know I'll be ready just after
    Christmas."

    Something, sadly, derailed Lennon's plans.
    Tennessee by John; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VdGMsuMNQ

    Woah, I had missed this. Thanks for posting it.

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  • From Will Dockery@21:1/5 to F Parella on Sat Nov 12 11:36:23 2022
    On Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 6:43:32 PM UTC-4, F Parella wrote:

    It's easy to forget that it was not Lennon's intention, upon returning
    to Ono in 1975, to go creatively dry for the next five years. Indeed,
    right through approximately March of 1975, he gave every indication of intending to follow his successful Walls and Bridges album not just by getting the problematic "Rock'n'Roll" record behind him, but with
    another album of new material. In fact, according to various sources
    (I am about to provide three, although there are more), this album was
    well underway; a number of songs for it had been written.
    According to Albert Goldman: "Just six weeks earlier, when [John] left
    May Pang, he had been arockin' and arollin' like a young man. Only a
    week before he left Sutton Place [the apartment where JL and May lived together], he had composed two songs, "Popcorn" and "Tennessee," the
    latter not about the American state but about the famous playwright
    Tennessee Williams, the titles of whose works were skillfully woven
    through the lyric. No sooner was John back at the Dakota, however,
    than he started having trouble with his writing."
    May Pang, meanwhile, says in her book that she and John planned to
    visit New Orleans, where they had been invited by Paul McCartney, who
    was working on an album there. Then, John said, "We'll come back and
    think about a new album." "I felt very happy," May mentions; "The
    John I loved most was the productive John, a man deeply committed to
    making good music..." May says that John actually started writing
    before the New planned Orleans trip. He composed "a sad song that he
    called 'Tennessee.' It had been inspired by his rereading of
    Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'" Shortly thereafter, according to May, "he had another song, 'Popcorn,' a very funny,
    catchy tune."
    Finally, Lennon himself gave a fascinating interview to Robert Hilburn
    of the LA Times in autumn of 1974. After discussion of Walls and
    Bridges, Lennon mentioned that "I stopped joining in [the partying
    with Nilsson and co.], and I thought, 'This is alright. I'd wake up
    and I didn't feel awful anymore." Lennon discussed touring: "Being
    in front of people on a stage turned out to be great, too, for a
    while." But, he added, "Writing and recording are the best." Lennon
    admitted that, "If I'm not writing, I get depressed." Hilburn
    concluded that: "With 'Walls and Bridges' finished, Lennon is now
    looking forward to putting the 'oldies' album together, and then work
    on his next solo album: "I'm writing now. I've already finished
    three tunes. It's going well. I know I'll be ready just after
    Christmas."
    Something, sadly, derailed Lennon's plans.

    Very interesting, the road not taken.

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  • From Norbert K@21:1/5 to Frank from Deeeetroit on Sun Nov 13 06:26:01 2022
    On Friday, July 16, 2010 at 3:02:54 PM UTC-7, Frank from Deeeetroit wrote:
    On Jul 7, 6:43 pm, F Parella <f_pare...@yahoo.com> wrote:
    It's easy to forget that it was not Lennon's intention, upon returning
    to Ono in 1975, to go creatively dry for the next five years. Indeed, right through approximately March of 1975, he gave every indication of intending to follow his successful Walls and Bridges album not just by getting the problematic "Rock'n'Roll" record behind him, but with
    another album of new material. In fact, according to various sources
    (I am about to provide three, although there are more), this album was
    well underway; a number of songs for it had been written.

    According to Albert Goldman: "Just six weeks earlier, when [John] left
    May Pang, he had been arockin' and arollin' like a young man. Only a
    week before he left Sutton Place [the apartment where JL and May lived together], he had composed two songs, "Popcorn" and "Tennessee," the
    latter not about the American state but about the famous playwright Tennessee Williams, the titles of whose works were skillfully woven
    through the lyric. No sooner was John back at the Dakota, however,
    than he started having trouble with his writing."

    May Pang, meanwhile, says in her book that she and John planned to
    visit New Orleans, where they had been invited by Paul McCartney, who
    was working on an album there. Then, John said, "We'll come back and
    think about a new album." "I felt very happy," May mentions; "The
    John I loved most was the productive John, a man deeply committed to
    making good music..." May says that John actually started writing
    before the New planned Orleans trip. He composed "a sad song that he called 'Tennessee.' It had been inspired by his rereading of
    Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'" Shortly thereafter, according to May, "he had another song, 'Popcorn,' a very funny,
    catchy tune."

    Finally, Lennon himself gave a fascinating interview to Robert Hilburn
    of the LA Times in autumn of 1974. After discussion of Walls and
    Bridges, Lennon mentioned that "I stopped joining in [the partying
    with Nilsson and co.], and I thought, 'This is alright. I'd wake up
    and I didn't feel awful anymore." Lennon discussed touring: "Being
    in front of people on a stage turned out to be great, too, for a
    while." But, he added, "Writing and recording are the best." Lennon admitted that, "If I'm not writing, I get depressed." Hilburn
    concluded that: "With 'Walls and Bridges' finished, Lennon is now
    looking forward to putting the 'oldies' album together, and then work
    on his next solo album: "I'm writing now. I've already finished
    three tunes. It's going well. I know I'll be ready just after
    Christmas."

    Something, sadly, derailed Lennon's plans.
    Tennessee by John; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VdGMsuMNQ

    This link doesn't appear to work anymore.

    However, a Google search for "John Lennon song 'Tennessee'" will turn up John's demo for the song.

    Some Youtube commentators think they detect Nilsson's influence on the piece. Could be.

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