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John Lennon December 1971

Title: Attica Prison Benefit Concert
Type: Home Movie
Filming Location: Apollo Theatre, New York City, New York
Filming Date: December 17th 1971
Broadcast Date: December 1971
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 10:58 Minutes
Quality: B-
Notes: Another day, another benefit concert. This one was for the families of the 43 men killed in a riot at Attica State Prison
in September 1971. The concert was held at the famous Apollo Theatre in New York. John & Yoko performed "Attica State",
"Sisters O Sisters" and "Imagine" with an acoustic only line-up that featured two other guitarists plus Jerry Rubin on percussion.

French Journalist, Jean-Francois Vallee filmed the event with a 16mm colour camera. John`s performance of
"Imagine" was included in full as a bonus on the DVD of "Imagine: John Lennon" in Dec 2005, Yoko uploaded her
performance of "Sisters O Sisters" onto Youtube in March 2011 & Attica State was shared in color on John`s youtube in 2025.

The entire 3 song performance, in black and white, is in the hands of some collectors in good quality.

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