#11feb1970

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Photo borrowed from the John Lennon Official Instagram as I’ve never seen it before.

I believe it’s from 11th February 1970, and the recording of Instant Karma by The Plastic Ono Band in Studio Eight at the BBC Television Centre, London for Top Of The Pops. The Plastic Ono Band at the time comprised John, Yoko, Klaus Voormann on bass, Alan White on drums, BP Fallon on bass and tambourine and Mal Evans on tambourine. John played piano and sang while Yoko sat on a stool and crocheted while blindfolded and occasionally held up cue cards such as the ‘Breath’ card. Whatever you may think of Yoko, it’s tricky to crochet blindfolded!

Pic: John Lennon Official / Instagram

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John and Yoko on The Simon Dee Show, recorded on 7th February 1970 for London Weekend Television at Studio One, Wembley Studios, London and broadcast on the 8th February 1970. Accompanying them (but not pictured here) was black rights activist Michael X, with whom John and Yoko had exchanged a bag of their hair for a pair of Muhammad Ali’s bloodstained boxing shorts previously on the 4th February.

They discussed James Hanratty, The Bag One lithographs and the Two Virgins record cover, and the recent hair and boxing short exchange with Michael X. John revealed that Sotheby’s had declined to auction the hair as “they only sell art.”