All the Outtakes ... Complete
Outtakes and demos from the "Imagine" sessions - Recorded May-June, 1971 - lun - nun
Disc 1:
- Imagine - Version 2, Take 1
- Crippled Inside - Take 17
- Jealous Guy - Take 2
- It's So Hard - Take 2
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, Mama - Take 2
- Gimme Some Truth - Alternate Vocal
- Oh My Love - Take 2
- How Do You Sleep - Alternate Vocal
- How? - Alternate Vocal
- Oh Yoko - Take 9
- "Just a Little Story" - studio monologue
- Well (Baby Please Don't Go) - Take 1
Disc 2:
- Imagine - Take 1
- Imagine - Take 2
- Imagine - Take 3
- Imagine - Alternate Vocal
- Crippled Inside - Take 2
- Jealous Guy - Take 1
- Jealous Guy - Take 7
- Jealous Guy - Vocal Take
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier... - Take 1 with sax
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier... - Alternate Take
- Oh My Love - Alternate Take
- Oh My Love - Alternate Take
- How? - Take 12
- How? - Alternate Take b
- How? - Original Take 2
- Oh Yoko - Take 7
- I'm the Greatest - Piano Demo
- Imagine - Rehearsal
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Impromptu Studio Solo
Disc 3:
- How Do You Sleep - Rehearsal 1
- Tuning Jam
- How Do You Sleep - Rehearsal 2
- How Do You Sleep - Rehearsal 3
- How Do You Sleep - Version 2
- How Do You Sleep - Take 2
- How Do You Sleep - Version 3
- How Do You Sleep - Alternate Vocal b
- Oh My Love - acoustic demo a - late '68
- Oh My Love - acoustic demo b - late '68
- How? - Piano demo - December 1970
- People Get Ready / How? - Piano Demo, late '70/'71
- Medley: How?/Child of Nature / Oh Yoko - Piano demo - late '70/'71
- Oh Yoko - Acoustic Demo - Mid 1969
- Oh Yoko - Piano Demo - late '70/'71
- It's So Hard - Sax overdub, NYC, 7/4/71
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama... - Sax overdub, NYC, 7/4/71
- How Do You Sleep? - Bonus Track (Reprise)
Disc 4: "How Do You Sleep"
- First Rehearsal
- Riffing
- Another Jam
- Tuning Jam
- Slow Rehearsal
- A Bit of Reggae
- "Slate 12" Low vocal false start
- Low vocal false start 2
- Low vocal rehearsal
- piano solo false start
- piano solo
- piano solo rehearsal
- eight track take 1
- Phil's rhythm instructions
- eight-track take 2
- ...from George's solo
- Imagine
- alternate vocal
How? - alternate vocal
I'm the Greatest - piano demo
Disc 5: "It's So hard" (tracks 1-13); "I Don't Want to..." (tracks 14-23)
- John Starts tape
- King Curtis arrives
- Intro playback
- John demos
- King Curtis riffs
- First Pass
- Second Pass
- King Asks John
- Third Pass
- John talks to King
- Another Pass
- Another Pass
- Last Pass
- John Talks '66 Tour
- First Playback
- Playback cont'd
- Playback cont'd
- John and King
- First Pass
- John talks to King
- Second Pass
- Third Pass
- Last Pass
Comments: This set compiles both collections of sessions, rehearsals, and demos for John Lennon's album "Imagine
, as released by Vigotone.