New John Lennon documentary sheds light on his dark, tragic, final decade
A new documentary, pieced together from unseen footage and carrying all-new interviews with those present at the time and nearest to the star, promises to tell the ex-Beatle’s post-Beatles come-down story that, it seems, – so far – the big names have successfully kept under cover.
New documentary, Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade, comes via Alan G. Parker the maker of Hello Quo and It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Sgt Pepper And Beyond and features classic interviews with all the usual suspects (Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney) plus new, perhaps more candid chat from Tony Bramwell the Apple Records CEO, Earl Slick, Lennon’s guitarist), Vinny Appice, his drummer, and tour manager Henry ‘The Horse’ Smith.
Of course, we’re all familiar with tales of Beatles sublime success. There’s their own official and suitably epic Anthology series. We’ve Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison-focused Living In The Material World delivering its ‘unique perspective’, and Peter Jackson’s tragedy-turned-triumph Get Back, all telling tales that fit a known narrative and leave a smile on your face.
And with Sam Mendes set to turn the birth and subsequent success of the fab four into four, standalone, movie-each, superhero-style origin stories, it seems that the gilding of the Beatles’ lily only seems set to continue.
Source:musicradar.com/Daniel Griffiths
