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John Lennon Mind Games (The Evolution Documentary) Official Video from The Ultimate Collection

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Continuing The Ultimate Collection series of John Lennon album remixes for 2024, The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music Recordings present JOHN LENNON - MIND GAMES - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION. Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, these 6 albums of new mixes and excerpts from the MIND GAMES recording sessions include The Ultimate Mixes, Elemental Mixes and Out-takes mixed by Triple-GRAMMY Award winner Paul Hicks; The Elements Mixes and Evolution Documentary mixed and engineered by Sam Gannon; and Raw Studio Mixes mixed by Rob Stevens. All tracks have been completely remixed and newly mastered in High Definition 24-192 Stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio.

THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY
One of the six albums of mixes in the Ultimate Collection is the Evolution Documentary - a set of mini-documentaries that explore the development of each song from their very first demo state through to the fully-formed Master Take, via in-studio development, chat and out-takes.
Edited down from the original 16-Track multi-track tapes, demo cassettes and other source tapes, generally each Evolution Documentary runs through the song’s sessions chronologically, starting with demos or early takes and ending with an exploration of the Master Take and its overdubs; highlighting different, and sometimes hidden, parts of the multi-track while including all the best method, madness, and magic heard during the creation and development of the songs.
These mixes put the listener into the centre of the studio with John Lennon and The Plastic U.F.Ono Band, in order for you to deep-dive into his creative process.

MIND GAMES - THE EVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY
Part One: In this never-seen-before home video footage from February 1970, we see and hear John Lennon writing an early demo version of 'Mind Games’ - then called ‘Make Love Not War' - on his favourite composing piano in their upstairs bedroom at Tittenhurst Park, their home in Ascot. The song already contains the melody and chords, the ‘make love not war’ refrain and the ‘love is the answer’ chorus.

This very short fragment of footage was found amongst other home video materials whilst conducting a deep search in the archives for content for the MIND GAMES ULTIMATE COLLECTION Box Set audio and book, along with the original (also never-seen-before) lyrics for the song.
John Lennon: vocal , upright piano.
Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, February 1970.

Part Two: John is in the studio at Record Plant on 4 Aug 1973, with Yoko and all the musicians, where he recorded seven takes of ‘Mind Games’. Three of these were complete. Included here are excerpts from Take 3 where Yoko is obviously helping John out with production duties from the control room.
John Lennon: vocal, Clavinet.
David Spinozza: electric guitar.
Ken Ascher: piano, organ, reed organ.
Gordon Edwards: bass.
Jim Keltner: drums.
Recorded at
Record Plant, NYC, 4 August 1973.

Part Three: At the start of the exploration of the Master multi-track (Take 2) we hear John referencing his starting pitch on the piano over the solo slide guitar and Mellotron, playing their repeating three-note riff. This journey through all the different parts of the multitrack highlights all the different instruments recorded for the final mix.
Additional overdubs added to the Master ready for the mix on 23 August 1973:
John Lennon: Mellotron, slide guitar, maracas, tambourine.

'Mind Games' written, produced & arranged by John Lennon.
Recording engineers: Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero.
Ultimate Collection produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Evolution Documentary edited, mixed & engineered by Sam Gannon at REVL8 & Abbey Road Studios.
Stereo mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
5.1 Surround & Dolby Atmos mastered by Sam Gannon at REVL8.
Compilation Producer & Production Manager: Simon Hilton.
© Lenono Music administered by Downtown Publishing Ltd.
℗ Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group) / Yoko Ono Lennon.
Film & Video © Yoko Ono Lennon.

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