John Lennon 'Honey Don't' from the film 'Clock'
1 of 92 Bonus Tracks in POWER TO THE PEOPLE Box Set
Preorder POWER TO THE PEOPLE → https://bit.ly/JOLstoreOn 10 September 1971, John & Yoko were staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. They were busy filming and editing 'Imagine' - their groundbreaking longform music film to accompany the Imagine album. Before they went out to film the beach scenes that day at South Beach, Staten Island, they created two new films, Freedom and Clock.
Freedom was Yoko's idea - a mid-shot of a woman struggling to escape her bra.
Clock was John's idea, filming a carriage clock for an hour, with John & Yoko in the room, in the mirror. The concept was that different actions could happen at different times in the hour, and the film could then act as an hourly clock. For the post part, John & Yoko ended up chatting, or John was singing and playing guitar whilst Yoko was organising her upcoming exhibition at the Everson Museum, or John was horsing around having fun.
'Honey Don't' by Carl Perkins is one of twenty songs performed by John in that hour - from the soundtrack of the film - that are featured in the Deluxe Box Set of POWER TO THE PEOPLE → https://bit.ly/JOLstore.
JOHN'S DIALOGUE FROM THE ORIGINAL FILMJohn: Just relax, you know, you don’t have to be in or out of the picture. Just do whatever you have to do, OK? It’s gonna be a clock, you know, so it’s not like a proper movie. It’ll just be like a background. We’re gonna be one hour doing this. On the quarter past, you should walk through and then they know it’s quarter past, you know what I mean? Whenever there’s a quarter of an hour, somebody should do something specific, right, so people get to know it by the picture of what’s going on... Must be getting near half past, John walked out of the picture again. At exactly twenty-to, he lit her cigarette. At 3’35’, Karen called. At quarter-to, he broke the lights! [laughs] At the hour we should just go completely barmy or something. On the hour, we’ll just run out hysterically, OK? Directly on twelve, we’ll run right out the room. On the count of three, we’ll just get up and run out. One, two, three...
'Honey Don't' written by Carl Lee Perkins © MPL UK PublishingJohn Lennon: acoustic guitar, vocals.
Clock, 1971 by John Lennon. Director: John Lennon. Producers: John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Soundtrack by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and participants. 16mm film, color, mono. Duration: 60’00"
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