How Do You Sleep? (Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band

New & exclusive 2018 Raw Studio Mix video including some never-before-seen footage, recorded at Ascot Sound Studios, Tittenhurst Park, 26 May 1971.

HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother’s eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head

Tell me... How do you sleep?
Tell me... How do you sleep at night?

You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your Momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you’ve gone you’re just another day

Tell me... How do you sleep at night?
Tell me babe... How do you sleep at night?
You was king...
Whoah... How do you sleep at night?
Whoah... How do you sleep at night?

A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they’ll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years

Oh... How do you sleep, brother?
Ohh... Tell me how do you sleep at night?

Hit it!

Jump when your momma tell you anything
But pretty soon you’ll see what you can do
Ohh... How do you sleep at night?
Tell me... How do you sleep at night?
Tell me... How do you sleep at night?

The IMAGINE Raw Studio Mixes place you in the centre of Ascot Sound Studios with John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band all around you. No reverb or echo, no effects, no strings, just live, unvarnished and raw. Available in stereo and exclusively in 5.1 Surround Sound in The Ultimate Collection Box Set.

Imagine you are at the Lennon’s home, Tittenhurst Park in Ascot, England. It's night. It's the last week in May in 1971 and you are their special guest, sat in a chair in the very center of the their recording studio, Ascot Sound Studios. John Lennon is sat in front of you, teaching the musicians one of his latest compositions. He is talking and singing and playing the same wood-finish Epiphone Casino electric guitar he played on 'Revolution'. A bearded George Harrison is in front of you, to the right, playing electric slide on John's pale blue Fender Strat. Just behind you and to your right, Rod Lynton with Ted Turner from Wishbone Ash are strumming chords on twelve string acoustic guitars, and directly behind you to the right, John and George's old friend Klaus Voormann is playing his deep hand-painted Fender Precision bass. Behind you to the left, Alan White (who would later join Yes) is playing his Ludwig silver sparkle drumkit, and in front of you to the left, John Tout from Renaissance is playing chords on the Steinway upright piano, and to his right, Nicky Hopkins is improvising on the red-top Wurlitzer Electric Piano, literally days before he leaves for Nellcôte to play on Exile on Main Street with The Rolling Stones. You are listening to the band playing 'How Do You Sleep' and all the hairs are standing up on your arms.

Imagine - The Raw Studio Mixes & Out-takes in 5.1 and Stereo
Produced by Yoko Ono
Mixed by Rob Stevens
Mix Engineer: Paul Goodrich at Merlin Studios
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, New York & Nashville

For the Raw Studio Mix of 'How Do You Sleep?' (Takes 5 & 6) In the Imagine Ultimate Collection Box Set on Blu-Ray Audio Disc 2, the 5.1 Surround Sound positions are:

Front Centre - John Lennon: electric guitar, vocal
Front Left - Nicky Hopkins: electric piano
Front Right - George Harrison: electric slide guitar
Surround Left - Alan White: drums
Surround Right - Klaus Voormann: bass

About ‘How Do You Sleep?’ by John & Yoko
excerpted from the 120 page book in the Imagine Ultimate Collection Box Set

John: Somebody said the other day ‘It’s about me’. You know, there’s two things I regret. One is that there was so much talk about Paul on it, they missed the song. It was a good track. And I should’ve kept me mouth shut – not on the song, it could’ve been about anybody, you know? And when you look at them back, Dylan said it about his stuff, you know, most of it’s about him. The only thing that matters is how he and I feel about those things and not what the writer or the commentator thinks about it, you know? Him and me are OK. So I don’t care what they say about that, you know? I’ve always been a little, you know, loose. And I hope it’ll change because I’m fed up of waking up in the papers. But if it doesn’t, my friends are my friends whatever way.

Credits:
Directors: John Lennon & Yoko Ono (1971)
Cameramen: Nick Knowland, John Metcalf & Richard Stanley (1971)
Editor: Simon Hilton (2018)

[Ziontrainism]

John: "How do you sleep?"
Paul: "Woke up, fell out of bed!"

[syarifnur]

John : Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

Also John : How do you sleep, eh Paul?

[jansimmelman]

Most people know that Ringo visited the recording of "How Do You Sleep".At one point he said:"That's enough John!"Ringo persuaded John to delete a few really nasty lines.Thank you Ringo!

[TheBootywest]

Music doesn't get much better than this. This session sounds better than the record.

[trishpaytas]

george is really just sittin there knowin damn well this song is about paul

[JeremiahPickardMusic]

Paul: Subtle references in ram
John: "THE ONLY THING YOU DONE WAS YESTERDAY"

[renhoek]

George Harrison's slide playing is sublime. Just like everything else he's ever played it's sensitive and tasteful, yet fits the music perfectly.

[pelotaconhambre]

While Lennon was dissing Paul, George was just vibing with his guitar.

[joshramirez]

Life is very short, and there is no time for fussing and fighting my friends.

[HazelTheHare]

This unused take is actually a lot better than the final record imo.

[elenafairy]

The funny thing is that if someone else said something like that about Paul, John would surely smash that man's head.

[sambakery]

R.I.P John Lennon {1940 - 1980}
R.I.P George Harrison {1943 - 2001}
R.I.P Nicky Hopkins {1944 - 1994}
R.I.P John Tout {1944 - 2015}
R.I.P Alan White {1949 - 2022}

Klaus may be the only man still standing in this magical session but all these music legends are still very much alive in our hearts just as much and more so even than the people living today due to all the great contributions they have made to the music world and all the great musical material they have brought to us. As long as the music is remembered which I can guarantee will be for generations to come, they to will also still be around.

[mirkopirisi]

George was truly a slide-guitar master. What a killer tone on that strat!

[joeschmo]

John Lennon: Imagine all the people living life in peace

Also John Lennon: makes a song trashing his former best friend on the same album

[RustinChole]

I actually like this version best. Sounds like you’re in the room with em.

[MsBulldog]

George's touch on the slide is impeccable.

[innerlight]

George's Guitar playing is mind blowing!

[gabriellessa]

The George's guitar line, is so delicate and elegant 🎶 So beautiful

[boooootch]

George’s slide work on this is tasty AF.

[estelaguarda]

Even after breaking up, The Beatles were still ahead of their time with Paul making a subtle diss and John making a full diss track.