John Lennon's final bow: raw, messy, beautiful, and gone too soon.
August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono backed by The Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, played a benefit concert to raise money for mentally handicapped children. It was their last concert together.
Direction
Captures the sweat and intimacy of a charity gig.
Practical Effects
The whole band, warts and all, no studio polish.
Director
Carol Dysinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lennon's first full-length concert since the Beatles retired from touring in 1966. He was terrified.
The benefit was for Willowbrook, a Staten Island institution later exposed as a horror house of abuse—the irony haunts the footage.
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