{"id":919,"date":"2020-10-09T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/?post_type=news&#038;p=919"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:09:05","slug":"john-lennon-gimme-some-truth","status":"publish","type":"music-news","link":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/music-news\/john-lennon-gimme-some-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon &#8211; Gimme Some Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"category_post":[],"acf":{"intro_copy":"JOHN LENNON. GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES.","smudge":false,"section_news":[{"acf_fc_layout":"copy_image","image":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","image_orientation":"landscape","copy":"<p>John Lennon\u2019s timeless song \u201cMind Games,\u201d with its famous refrain of \u201cmake love not war,\u201d has been completely remixed from scratch and the video has been upgraded to HD, radically upgrading the sonic and video quality to present the song and video in the highest possible standard. The video, an incredibly charismatic narrative of Lennon greatly enjoying himself on a beautiful, sunny autumnal day in Central Park and throughout his adopted hometown New York City in November 1974, now features the new Ultimate Mix of the song, resulting in the video both looking and sounding better than ever with Lennon\u2019s vocals front and center. Watch the video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/MindGamesUltimateMix\">http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/MindGamesUltimateMix<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"JOHN LENNON. GIMME SOME TRUTH. FOUR LP BOX SET\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4uUR0NmZuLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMind Games,\u201d the title track of Lennon\u2019s 1973 album of the same name, will be released via Capitol\/UMe on a suite of beautifully presented collections of his most vital and best loved solo works titled GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES., releasing October 9th on what would have been the beloved icon\u2019s 80th birthday. \u201c[Mind Games] was a fun track because the voice is in stereo and the seeming orchestra on it is just me playing three notes with slide guitar. And the middle eight is reggae,\u201d Lennon revealed in an interview. \u201cTrying again to explain to American musicians what reggae was in 1973 was pretty hard, but it\u2019s basically a reggae middleeight if you listen to it.\u201d Discussing the message of the song he remarked, \u201cTrying to possess somebody makes them go away. Every time you put your finger on it, it slips away. Every time you turn the microscope\u2019s light on, the thing changes so you can never see what it is. As soon as you ask the question, it goes away. Peripheral vision is what it is. There\u2019s no looking directly at it. Try to look at the sun. You go blind, right? Now that doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t have to work on it. Love is a flower, you gotta let it grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new single follows last month\u2019s release of the Ultimate Mix of \u201cInstant Karma (We All Shine On.\u201d Stream \u201cMind Games,\u201d \u201cInstant Karma (We All Shine On)\u201d and preorder the album here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/InstantKarma\">http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/InstantKarma<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/MindGamesUltimateMix\">http:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/MindGamesUltimateMix<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/GIMMESOMETRUTH\">https:\/\/johnlennon.lnk.to\/GIMMESOMETRUTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Executive Produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES., features 36 songs, handpicked by Yoko and Sean, that have been completely remixed from the original multitracks in Stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos, presenting them as a never-before-heard Ultimate Listening Experience.<\/p>\n<p>Mixed and engineered by multi GRAMMY\u00ae Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks, who also helmed the mixes for 2018\u2019s universally acclaimed Imagine \u2013 The Ultimate Collection series, with assistance by engineer Sam Gannon who also worked on that release, the songs were completely remixed from the ground up, using brand new transfers of the original multitracks, cleaned up to the highest possible sonic quality. After weeks of painstaking preparation, the final mixes and effects were completed using only vintage analog equipment and effects at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, and then mastered in analog at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton in order to ensure the most beautiful and authentic sound quality possible.<\/p>\n<p>GIMME SOME TRUTH. \u2013 named for Lennon\u2019s 1971 excoriating rebuke of deceptive politicians, hypocrisy and war, a sentiment as relevant as ever in our post-truth era of fake news, will be available in a variety of formats including as a Deluxe Edition Box Set that offers several different ways to listen to this engrossing 36-track collection with stunning new mixes across two CDs alongside a Blu-ray audio disc containing the Ultimate Mixes in Studio Quality 24 bit\/96 kHz HD Stereo, immersive 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn was a brilliant man with a great sense of humour and understanding,\u201d writes Yoko Ono Lennon in the preface of the book included in the Deluxe Edition. \u201cHe believed in being truthful and that the power of the people will change the world. And it will. All of us have the responsibility to visualize a better world for ourselves and our children. The truth is what we create. It\u2019s in our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 124-page book included in the Deluxe Edition has been designed and edited by Simon Hilton, the Compilation Producer and Production Manager of the Ultimate Collection series. The book tells the story of three dozen songs in John &amp; Yoko\u2019s words and the words of those who worked alongside them, through archival and brand-new interviews, accompanied by hundreds of previously unseen photographs, Polaroids, movie still frames, letters, lyric sheets, tape boxes, artworks and memorabilia from the Lennon-Ono archives.<\/p>\n<p>GIMME SOME TRUTH. will also be released as a 19-track CD or 2LP, a 36-track 2CD or 4 LP, and several digital versions for download and streaming including in 24 bit\/96 kHz audio and hi-res Dolby Atmos. The vinyl was cut by mastering engineer Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios. The Deluxe Edition and 4LP formats will include a GIMME SOME TRUTH. bumper sticker, a two-sided poster of Lennon printed in black and white with silver and gold metallics, and two postcards, one of which is a replica of Lennon\u2019s letter to the Queen of England in 1969 when he returned his MBE in \u201cprotest against Britain\u2019s involvement in the Nigerian-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and Cold Turkey slipping down the charts.\u201d The 2LP and 2CD will also include the poster and all versions will come with a booklet filled with photos and the MBE letter.<\/p>\n<p>The album cover features a rarely-seen striking black and white profile portrait of John Lennon, taken on the day John returned his MBE. The album cover, CD and LP booklets and typographic artworks were designed by Jonathan Barnbrook who created the covers for David Bowie\u2019s albums Heathen, Reality and The Next Day and won a GRAMMY\u00ae Award for the packaging of Bowie\u2019s Black Star album.<\/p>\n<p>GIMME SOME TRUTH. traces the arc of Lennon\u2019s post-Beatles life and career, bringing together songs from all of his revered solo albums including John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Band (1970), Imagine (1971), Some Time In New York City (1972), Mind Games (1973), Walls and Bridges (1974), Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll (1975), Double Fantasy (1980) and 1984\u2019s posthumous Milk and Honey. The collection is bookended with his early non-album singles, kicking off with the one-two punch of \u201cInstant Karma! (We All Shine On),\u201d Lennon\u2019s exuberant exhortation about the karmic forces of action\/reaction and equality (\u201cwe all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun\u201d), and the electrifying addiction-themed \u201cCold Turkey,\u201d and culminating with the holiday classic \u201cHappy Xmas (War Is Over)\u201d and the anti-war protest anthem \u201cGive Peace A Chance,\u201d with its ubiquitous, titular call to action: \u201cAll we are saying is Give Peace A Chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sequenced in chronological order by album they were released on, songs on the 36-track version include all of Lennon\u2019s biggest hits and showcase his thoughts, beliefs and convictions about everything from peace (\u201cImagine,\u201d \u201cGive Peace A Chance,\u201d \u201cHappy Xmas (War Is Over)\u201d), religion (\u201cGod\u201d), politics (\u201cPower To The People,\u201d \u201cWorking Class Hero\u201d), lying politicians (\u201cGimme Some Truth\u201d), racism (\u201cAngela\u201d), equality (\u201cWoman\u201d), love and marriage (\u201cLove,\u201d \u201cOh Yoko!,\u201d \u201cDear Yoko,\u201d \u201cMind Games,\u201d \u201cOut The Blue,\u201d \u201cEvery Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him,\u201d \u201cGrow Old With Me\u201d), fatherhood (\u201cBeautiful Boy (Darling Boy)\u201d), loneliness (\u201cIsolation\u201d) and much more. Some of the many other highlights include the sonically sumptuous \u201cJealous Guy\u201d and \u201c#9 Dream,\u201d the acerbic \u201cHow Do You Sleep?,\u201d the breezy, carefree \u201cWatching The Wheels,\u201d a rollicking live recording of \u201cCome Together\u201d that he had originally recorded with The Beatles, the rapturous Elton John collaboration \u201cWhatever Gets You Thru The Night,\u201d and the jubilant, bittersweet \u201cI\u2019m Stepping Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like all Lennon projects, intense thought and care went into the making of GIMME SOME TRUTH and the remixing of these treasured songs. As Paul Hicks details in the Deluxe Edition book: \u201cYoko is very keen that in making The Ultimate Mixes series we achieve three things: remain faithful and respectful to the originals, ensure that the sound is generally sonically clearer overall, and increase the clarity of John\u2019s vocals. \u2018It\u2019s about John,\u2019 she says. And she is right. His voice brings the biggest emotional impact to the songs.\u201d Hicks continues, \u201cThe combination of remixing from all the original first-generation multitrack sources and finishing in analogue has brought a whole new level of magic, warmth and clarity to the sound, along with a more detailed dynamic range and sound stage, and we really hope you enjoy the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results speak for themselves and allow Lennon\u2019s voice and words to shine on, clearer and brighter, at a time when they are needed now, more than ever. When listened to in sequence, GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES. plays both like one of the greatest-ever live Lennon concerts and an emotional telling of his life story, from just after the breakup of The Beatles, to falling in love and marrying Yoko, his peace activism, personal soul-searching, inspiration, celebration, confusion, reunion, fatherhood, his five-year break from music while raising Sean, and his triumphant return into the \u201880s with two new albums.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout these incredible, timeless songs we experience the many facets of John Lennon: the songwriter, the revolutionary, the musician, the husband, the truth-teller, the dad, the provocateur, the peace activist, the artist, the icon.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"cta","copy":"Pre-Order Now","link":"https:\/\/UMI.lnk.to\/GimmeSomeTruthWE","cta_copy_color":"#ffffff","alignment":"center"}],"block_type":"image-content","thumbnail_size":"height-1","image_thumbnail":{"ID":920,"id":920,"title":"John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit","filename":"John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","filesize":49344,"url":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","link":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/music-news\/john-lennon-gimme-some-truth\/john-lennon-gimme-some-truth-the-ultimate-mixes-breit\/","alt":"John Lennon","author":"3","description":"","caption":"","name":"john-lennon-gimme-some-truth-the-ultimate-mixes-breit","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":919,"date":"2020-10-09 09:39:05","modified":"2020-10-09 09:45:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":819,"height":452,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit-300x166.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":166,"medium_large":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit-768x424.jpg","medium_large-width":525,"medium_large-height":290,"large":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","large-width":525,"large-height":290,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","1536x1536-width":819,"1536x1536-height":452,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","2048x2048-width":819,"2048x2048-height":452,"twentyseventeen-featured-image":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit.jpg","twentyseventeen-featured-image-width":819,"twentyseventeen-featured-image-height":452,"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Lennon-Gimme-some-truth-The-ultimate-Mixes-Breit-100x100.jpg","twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar-width":100,"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar-height":100}},"display_tag":false,"related":false,"tag_color":"","meta_description":"","social_share_image":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/music-news\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/music-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/music-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"category_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_post?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}