Imagine there's no rubbish...
Well, well, well, as Johnny used to sing.
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Yet another look at the (in)famous "Lost Weekend," AKA JohnLennon drunk and disorderly on the US left coast from late '73 to autumn '74.
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This time from the February '10, Q mag, which claims to be "The UK's Biggest Music Magazine." -
Actually a decent enough little feature, with loads 'o' May Pang Kodachrome's, but bogged down a bit by the recycling of many of the oft-told-tales of Johnny and Harry Nilsson getting bombed, and Phil Spector being a boob and/or psycho.-
The piece could have used more about what exactly took place with the Rock 'n' Roll session tapes after Phil extorted 90K from Capitol for their return.
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And the claim that Lennon was "broke," and needed a 10 grand advance from Capitol to live strains incredible.-
Plus the whole premise of the "lost weekend" has been rejected by many who see it as proforma JohnandYoko murky mythology
designed to launch John into his "house husband," period, also a rather dubious in totality tale.
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However, there is a really boffo yarn about how Nilsson and Lennon managed to sort of trick 5 mill out of His Master's Voice for Harry, with fantasies of how great the Pussy Cats collaboration was to be-it flopped-and how possible Lennon would flee Capital for RCA after his contract was up in 1975.
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Pick up/roll up the magazine, and read all about it.
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