Cold Turkey — John Lennon
His first solo single, performed at the Live Peace in Toronto Concert in 1969, it describes his withdrawal from heroin, as he’ll explain in the video.
It features Ring on the drums, Eric Clapton on lead guitar and Klaus Voorman (the friend he met all those years ago in Germany) on bass. Not a bad lineup. This after Paul rejected it as a Beatles single.
The ending is all too real.
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In 1969 Lennon returned his MBE to Buckingham Palace saying “I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag.”
Bag is a reference to Bagism, part of John and Yoko’s late 60’s peace campaign. The intent of bagism was to satirize prejudice and stereotyping. Bagism involved literally wearing a bag over one’s entire body. According to John and Yoko, by living in a bag, a person could not be judged by others on the basis of skin color, gender, hair length, attire, age, or any other such attributes.
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