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You Are Here (The Ultimate Mix) from John Lennon Mind Games (The Ultimate Collection)

Published on Thu, Jun 6th 2024 Entertainment Rectangular HD

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John: I did a 'You Are Here' show at the Robert Fraser Gallery. It consisted of a bare gallery and a big white canvas that was round and it just had my writing on it: 'you are here'. You had to go down the stairs and you had to get through all these different charity cans to put money in, like RSPCA, animal and cancer funds, and dogs and people — the room was full of them — and on the left side of the wall was this big, big canvas with 'you are here', a hat to put money in – for the artist – and a jar of teeny white badges to take that said, 'you are here'. We filmed them from behind a dark window with the English 'Candid Camera' team, and let balloons off with 'send your message back when you get it', and they'd write to tell me where it came from. I cut the canvas down and it's about three foot now.

'You Are Here' - that's more than just a joke, I suppose. People read it and suddenly realise it's true. 'Yes, I'm here,' they think. 'So are these other people. We're all here together.' And that's where the vibrations start being exchanged. Good and bad ones according to who is sending out and how they feel. A lot of people went to India to find out they were here. Like [Timothy] Leary's friend Richard Alpert [Ram Dass] went to India and saw all the gurus, chasing all over the place, and all the gurus said to him was, 'Remember, be here now'. That's all them gurus will ever tell you. Remember this moment now. I was talking to George the other day and I forgot to say to him, 'What are you searching for? You are here!'

Text excerpted from the Thames and Hudson Book, MIND GAMES: JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, available 24 Sept 2024. Preorder here: https://bit.ly/MindGamesBook

Quotes sources: Frost On Sunday, BBCTV, Aug 1968 and interview with Howard Smith, Sept 1971.

'You Are Here' film - from the preparation (30 June) and opening (1 July) of John Lennon's first exhibition You Are Here (to Yoko from John Lennon) at Robert Fraser Gallery, 69 Duke St., Grosvenor Square, London, 1968.
Directed by John Lennon.
By John Lennon for Yoko.
Cameramen: William Waring & Dick Lorriemore.
Starring: John & Yoko, Robert Fraser, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor, Richard DiLello, Kevin Harrington, Victor Spinetti, Jill Johnston, Richard Hamilton and a cast of hundreds.
© Yoko Ono Lennon 1968/2024.

Find out more about the exhibition at https://www.johnlennon.com/news/you-are-here-new-film-of-john-lennons-1968-art-exhibition/

Music:
YOU ARE HERE (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon: vocal acoustic guitar, conga, tambourine, maracas, guiro.
David Spinozza: electric guitar
Sneaky Pete Kleinlow: pedal steel guitar
Ken Ascher: piano, organs
Gordon Edwards: bass
Jim Keltner: drums
Something Different (Christine Wiltshire, Jocelyn Brown, Kathy Mull, Angel Coakley): background chorus
Produced and Arranged by John Lennon.
Engineers: Roy Cicala & Dan Barbiero.
Space by Yoko Ono.
Recorded at Record Plant, NYC, 3 Aug 1973.

JOHN LENNON - MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) remixes (2023)
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Compilation Producer & Production Manager: Simon Hilton.
Mixed & engineered by Paul Hicks at The Hix Factory.
Additional Engineering by Sam Gannon at REVL8.
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
© Lenono Music administered by Downtown Publishing Ltd.
℗ & © Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group)/Yoko Ono Lennon