The John Lennon Estate presents new video for John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Sunday ... The Line of Best Fit
Directed by Simon Hilton and David Frearson (with graphics and guerilla street art animation by Frearson) and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, Delphine Lamandé-Frearson, Sophie Hilton, Faye Jordan and Grace Davyd, the captivating video illustrates, through a kinetic text narrative and statistics of how many civilians and soldier's lives have been tragically lost from violent conflicts around the world, and the perpetually escalating financial costs incurred - including The Troubles in Ireland, the Vietnam War, the Iran-Iraq War, Lebanon, Tiananmen Square, the Lockerbie bombing, the Bosnian War, the Rwanda and Darfur genocides, the Chechen Wars, 9/11, the Iraq War, Syria, the Ukraine War, the War in Gaza and from mass shootings in the United States of America.
It poignantly ends with the reminder that more than 1.5 million people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 December 1980. He would have been 85 on 9 October 2025.
Written about Bloody Sunday, the January 30, 1972, massacre of 13 unarmed protesters, including six children, by British soldiers during a protest march in Derry, Northern Ireland. The tragedy also famously inspired U2’s classic 1983 song of the same name.
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is featured on the new box set, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, a 12-disc collection that chronicles and celebrates John & Yoko’s non-violent political activism in NYC in the early ‘70s. Songs from Sometime In New York City have been reordered, rejuvenated and completely reimagined as a new set of Ultimate Mixes, entitled New York City.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE was produced by Sean Ono Lennon and his 5x Grammy Award-winning production team. The centerpiece of the collection is the One To One Concert that took place on 30 August 1972, at Madison Square Garden in NYC featuring John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory and Special Guests. These two performances were John’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles.
Source: Tyler Damara Kelly/thelineofbestfit.com
