The clip features Lennon singing “Honey Don’t”
On September 10, 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono stayed at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. 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 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.
John performed 20 songs in the hour they filmed Clock, and this intimate, fly-on-the-wall performance of “Honey Don’t” by Carl Perkins is the first-ever glimpse into what’s little known about the film.
The film’s soundtrack, including “Honey Don’t,” is featured in the forthcoming Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection), a massive new 12-disc/digital collection exploring and celebrating John and Yoko’s non-violent political activism, influential peace and protest anthems, and the couple’s early years in New York City. It will be released via Capitol/UMe on October 10th, one day after John would have been 85.
Power To The People (Super Deluxe Edition) comprises 9 CDs and 3 Blu-ray Audio discs packaged in a bespoke 10-inch slipcase with silver foil titling and a lenticular cover of John and Yoko’s faces that, when layered on top of each other, presents a dynamic 3D effect.
The One To One Concert will be available outside of the boxed set in a variety of configurations including the Afternoon and Evening shows as an Audiophile 4 LP Deluxe Collector’s Edition containing four 180-gram black vinyl records with rice paper inner sleeves and an eight-page booklet housed in a 12-inch rigid lift-off-lid box, with the same silver foil titling and lenticular cover as the boxed set as well as the same replica VIP envelope with concert tickets and passes and poster.
A 2 CD Deluxe Edition with a triple gatefold digisleeve featuring a lenticular cover of John and Yoko’s faces includes a 20-page booklet. The hybrid concert will also be available on its own, including on 2 LP 180-gram audiophile black vinyl, limited edition transparent green vinyl and on CD. The vinyl versions contain an eight-page, 12-inch booklet with a six-panel newsprint poster that provides visual and historical context, alongside two full-color postcards.
