The Ballad Of John And Yoko

On this day in history - April 14, 1969:

With GEORGE HARRISON unavailable and RINGO STARR working on "The Magic Christian", JOHN LENNON and PAUL MCCARTNEY show up at EMI Studios for what was supposed to have been a mixing session, but end up recording Lennon's new song instead.

Recorded and mixed in one day, with John on guitars and vocal, and Paul on drums, bass, piano, and backing vocals, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" would be the A-side of the next BEATLES single.

Here is a center-channel extraction from the 5.1 mix, which allows us to hear essentially just John's guitar and lead vocal.

The second track here is a cover of the song from an old LP on Dot Records called "The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog", an album of Moog-based covers of contemporary hits.

BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO (BEATLES - CENTER CHANNEL EXTRACTION)

BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO (THE PLASTIC COW GOES MOOOOOOG)