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"From 8 hours a night in Hamburg to 20 minute UK sets with Roy Orbison to Shea Stadium - John Lennon talks to Irv 'Kup' Kupcinet on 11 May 1972, three months before the One To One Concert, when he was still hoping to take the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory band on a huge U.S. Tour."
As published on YouTube by the estate. Unfortunately, my analysis of all One To One documentary video and audio got lost in The Great Fire Of Spam Attack, or so I've learned earlier today. Otherwise, I could've quoted how excited I was with the find of above tape of Kup's Show '72. This tape was long presumed lost, since not a single second had ever surfaced in any documentary or among collectors, with only a partial off-air audio recording known to exist. Then, out of nowhere, a snippet appeared in the 2016 Eight Days a Week documentary, followed by another in last year’s One to One film, and now this.
Huge thanks to the Lennon estate for digging deep into the archives, leaving no stone unturned, and for publishing so much as well. That's what I love the most about the Lennon projects from the past decade. From the Lost Lennon Tapes in the 80's to the Anthology box set in 1998 and the remix projects in the early 00's, the estate always did a tremendous job in my opinion, and there was always a wealth of material shared. Only when it came to certain periods you would always see the same footage, the Bed-in, Imagine 1971 sessions, Mike Douglas Show, The Tomorrow Show '75, etc. The same photos from almost exclusively 1971–1972 and 1980.
Now, with the POB and Mind Games box set, the One To One documentary and the upcoming box set, there's just so much more context to everything from overlooked eras. Among the session tapes, the massive books and separate video uploads, it's a little time capsule of how things truly were at the time.
And above is another of those things. This is truly golden footage. Had this tape been known when Anthology was being put together over 30 years ago, this quote would almost certainly have been included. The fact that snippets started appearing in documentaries and now this upload, from what looks like a pristine tape, gives me hope they found the full thing.
For me, the coolest part is that it’s not often that something unknown and uncirculating provides such a significant moment, like in this case, an important Beatles story told by Lennon, on video, in colour! Let's hope the upcoming Anthology documentary release got a slight re-edit...
