A brand new documentary providing an intimate have a look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in New York within the early Nineteen Seventies has its first trailers.
Due in theaters April eleventh, One To One: John & Yoko facilities on their August thirtieth, 1972 efficiency on the free One to One profit live performance at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard—Lennon’s solely full-length present after leaving The Beatles. On the live performance, Ono and Lennon had been accompanied by Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, Elephant’s Reminiscence and a bunch of particular visitors.
The documentary additionally options never-before-seen and newly restored footage from the years 1971 and 1972, when Lennon and Ono had simply moved to their first Greenwich Village condominium. Archival footage—together with telephone calls and personal house movies—are paired with clips from the American tv that they had been immersing themselves in on the time: The Value is Proper, The Waltons, Coca-Cola advertisements, Walter Cronkite and his reporting on Nixon, The Vietnam Warfare and extra.
Directed by Kevin McDonald, the movie additionally options newly remixed and produced music from their son, Sean Ono Lennon. In a press release, Lennon shared: “Kevin’s documentary brings completely fresh insight into my parents’ lives during their Bank Street and early New York years, showing first hand their unwavering dedication to promoting peace and non-violence during a turbulent era of unrest, corruption and unnecessary war.”
In a clip from the movie, Lennon explains why he wished to carry out at a free present: “To change the apathy that all the youth have, speak to them, sing to them, and do anything to get them alive again.”
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