Previous Entry Back To 1975 Home Back To Years Next Entry

John Lennon April 1975

Title: Salute To Sir Lew
Type: TV Special
Filming Location: Grand Ballroom, New York City, New York
Filming Date: April 18th 1975
Broadcast Date: June 13th 1975 (US); June 20th 1975 (UK)
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 06:06 Minutes (Includes 21 Seconds Of Stand By Me)
Quality: B
Source: "John Lennon Miscellaneous Collection Vol 4 1973-1980" (BedHead Productions Merge)(Silver2000)
Other Sources:

Notes: John recorded his last ever live TV performance in a TV special made as a salute to Sir Lew Grade called "Tribute To Sir
Lew".John performed "Slippin` & Sliding", "Stand By Me" & Imagine.

The American and British broadcasts have different edits and mixes and the UK version has comedian Dave Allen on camera
introducing John whereas the US broadcast comes straight out of a commercial break and straight into "Slippin` & Sliding" with
an American voiceover introducing John and then edits out a bar of the musical intro in which John says "louder".John also
came out at the very end of the show along with the other performers.

The performance of "Imagine" was later included on the home video release of "The John Lennon Collection" and "Slippin` &
Sliding" is available on bootleg DVD as is the entire TV special (US broadcast)."Stand By Me" was taped but not used but in
2024 a 21 second snippet turned up on social media & the complete performance of Stand By Me has now be found in the BFI Archives.

COPY RIGHT © 2018 THE BEATLES ON FILM-ALL RIGHTS RESERVED