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John Lennon – Complete Lost Lennon’s Tapes Vols 17 & 18 ( Walrus )

Volume 17

No	Tracklisting	Comments	Time
1	Serve Yourself	Piano demo At end John says, “Tired”, then laughs.	5:13
2	She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain	Acoustic outtake	1:00
3	She Ran Them Round In Circles Beautiful Boy	Guitar and drum machine medley of two originals Beautiful Boy is Demo 3 (3:54)	5:36
4	Memory/Watching The Wheels	Piano demos – medley	4:16
5	Stranger’s Room	Demo #3 of early version of “I’m Losing You”	3:49
6	Woman	Acoustic and drum machine demo with false start (0:28) At start John says, “The new one”. After the 28 second false start he says, “Let’s start again, positively THE take, take 9”	4:24
6	Woman	Take 9 – Complete acoustic and drum machine demo (3:51) Although John announces it as “Take 9”, I think that in this series this is only the second demo version. I am judging this on phrasing and relating it to the other available pieces.	4:24
7	I’m Stepping Out	Demo 1 – Acoustic (Labelled as Take 1)	1:40
8	I’m Stepping Out	Demo 2 – Acoustic (Labelled as Take 3)	6:12
9	(Just Like) Starting Over	Acoustic and drum machine demo – never aired	3:41
10	Dream Lover/Stay	Full band, jamming with two favourite oldies	3:40
11	Clean-up Time	Vocal overdubs John says, “I started off as Dylan, finished off as Jagger”	0:54
12	Beautiful Boy	Vocal overdubs (continued below)	0:33
13	Beautiful Boy	Vocal overdubs (continues)	0:17
14	Beautiful Boy	Vocal overdubs (continues)	0:26
15	Beautiful Boy	Vocal overdubs (continues)	0:21
16	Beautiful Boy	Vocal overdubs (continues)	0:20
17	Watching The Wheels	Guide vocal with orchestra in overdub session (continues below)	0:37
18	Watching The Wheels	(continues from above)	0:21
19	Watching The Wheels	(continues from above)	3:39
20	Borrowed Time	Rough mix (continues below)	0:11
21	Borrowed Time	Rough mix (continued)	3:54
22	I’m Stepping Out	Take 4 – (Labelled as Take 8) At start John says, “This is the story of a house-husband and how one day he just had to get away”	5:00
23	Woman	Rough mix	3:07
24	Lennon’s Lost Diary Tape	5th September 1979	13:20

Volume 18

No	Tracklisting	Comments	Time
1	It’s Not Too Bad	Three embryonic versions of Strawberry Fields Forever, Santa Isabel, Spain 1966 (Takes 1, 2, 3). At this stage John more or less only has the opening lines. (0:47, 1:16, 1:26)	3:29
2	She Can Talk To Me	Early piano demo of Hey Bulldog	0:46
3	Cry Baby Cry	Early piano and electric guitar demo fragments	3:22
4	Two Virgins Outtake	May 1968 – John and Yoko playing around in the studio	1:48
5	Plastic Ono Band Jam	A send-up of 50’s rockabilly	1:39
6	Look At Me	Alternate vocals. (same as on CLLT 12) At start John says, “Hello, ok ?”	2:52
7	I’m The Greatest	Piano demo #1 from December 1970	0:37
8	How? Child Of Nature Oh Yoko	Piano demo medley	4:25
9	Oh Yoko	Piano demo (slow tempo)	3:23
10	Sally And Billy	1970 demo, John returns to this song 6 years later	2:03
11	Come Together	One-to-One brief mainly instrumental rehearsal from August 1972	1:47
12	Happy Girl	Yoko’s call and response song	1:10
13	I’ll Make You Happy	John’s call and response song with lyrics borrowed from Cold Turkey	3:56
14	How Do You Sleep ?	Take 1 – Lacklustre rehearsal from July 1971 At end John says, “Yeah, alright, but you didn’t tell me to play yet, so we going from the top then ?”	3:46
15	It’s So Hard	Run through from the King Curtis sax overdub session	4:45
16	I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier I Don’t Wanna Die	Run through from the King Curtis sax overdub session	4:34
17	Intuition	Demo 2 – Piano demo (labelled “Take 4”)	3:04
18	I Know	Demo 2 – Acoustic guitar	3:00
19	I Know	Take 1 – Alternate mix of the finished song (Also on CLLT 11)	3:43
20	Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)	Near final mix with great dual lead guitar work	4:40
21	Steel And Glass	Dark piano version with extra lyrics	1:44
22	Walls And Bridges Rundown	Canadian radio station promo	1:56
23	Mirror Mirror	Take 2 – Piano demo (full)	4:34
24	Memory	Home demo from 1976 – Recording guitar over an earlier piano demo of a song that became “Tennessee”	6:03