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How Do You Sleep?, draft lyric sheet for 'Imagine', 1971 (photocopy)

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CH3736589
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How Do You Sleep?, draft lyric sheet for 'Imagine', 1971 (photocopy)
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Artist
Lennon, John (1940-80) / British
Location
Private Collection
Medium
photocopy
Date
1971 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
20.4x29.3 cms
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A rare set of John Lennon's early photocopied and annotated lyric sheets for his groundbreaking album Imagine, 1971 the early copies of typed drafts showing variations to the released tracks and a few of Lennon's handwritten annotations, were given to journalist Ray Connolly when he visited John and Yoko at Tittenhurst Park in July, 1971; ten lyric sheets, each a photocopy of a typed page How Do You Sleep?, nineteen lines in three verses originally typed on blank paper, this version showing two minor variations, one in the third line of the second verse where it is: The only things [plural] whereas 'thing' is singular in the released version; and the fourth line of the third verse reads You must have learnt something is all these years - 'is' is replaced by 'in' in the final version

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Photo © Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images
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