MIND GAMES. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon and The Plastic Band

JOHN LENNON. GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES. The Very Best of John Lennon. 36 tracks completely remixed from the original multitracks in Stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos. Listen to JOHN LENNON like you’ve never heard him before. OUT NOW → MIND GAMES We’re playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla Chanting the mantra ’Peace On Earth’ We all been playing those mind games forever Dome kinda druid dude lifting the veil Doing the mind guerrilla Some call it magic - the search for the grail Love is the answer and you know that for sure Love is a flower you got to let it, you got to let it grow So keep on playing those mind games together Faith in the future out of the now You just can’t beat on those mind guerillas Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind Yeah we’re playing those mind games forever Projecting our images in space and in time ’Yes’ is the answer - and you know that for sure Yes is surrender - you got to let it, you got to let it go So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun Millions of mind guerillas Putting their Soul Power to the karmic wheel Keep on playing those mind games forever Raising the spirit of peace and love Love I want you to make love not war I know you’ve heard it before I want you to make love not war I know you’ve heard it before written by John Lennon John Lennon: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, clavinet, tubular bells Ken Ascher: Mellotron, Hammond organ David Spinozza: guitar Gordon Edwards: bass Jim Keltner: drums Produced and Arranged by John Lennon Engineers: Roy Cicala & Dan Barbiero Mastering: Tom Rabstanek Recorded and Mastered at Record Plant NY NY From the album Mind Games (1973). ABOUT THE FILM On 15 November 1974, a BBC film crew for ’Old Grey Whistle Test’, spent a day filming with John around Central Park and various other locations in New York, to make a video for the song “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night“, directed by John. The video was never broadcast, but a small amount of the footage emerged as a very short edit for the song “#9 Dream” in February 1975. In 2003, for the Lennon Legend DVD release, Yoko Ono purchased all the original camera film reels at auction, which were very aged and damaged from decay and scratching and, working with film editor Simon Hilton, cleaned them up and assembled this incredibly charismatic narrative of John, obviously greatly enjoying himself on a beautiful sunny autumnal day out in New York. ’That was a fun track because the voice is in stereo and the seeming orchestra on it is just me playing three notes with slide guitar. And the middle eight is reggae.’ Listen to the new ’Mind Games’ Ultimate Remix and discover John’s story behind the song at