3 Days in the Life
On February 8th, 9th and 10th of 1970, Tony Cox (former husband of Yoko Ono a.k.a Mrs. John Lennon) filmed John and Yoko on a then state-of-the-art, black and white, Sony movie camera. Cox followed the Lennon’s around their mansion in Tittenhurst, England, shadowed them during recording sessions and press meetings and generally filmed them in cinema verite’ style doing their daily routines during those three days.
The story gets somewhat involved after that but apparently Mr. Cox, disappeared soon after, taking with him the original film and other items that were affiliated with John and Yoko. (Not the least of which was Yoko and Cox’s daughter, Kyoko.)
Around 2000, these tapes became available as part of a collection of Beatles memorabilia items and came to be owned by a company called World Wide Video. The executive producer of the WWV and business associate of mine, Ray F. Thomas, put together – with assistance from yours truly – an initial 2-hour movie culled from the ten hours of unseen footage that comprises 3 Days in the Life. I was selected – from a slew of other interested parties – to be the musical director of this film. I wrote two songs that are included in the soundtrack and worked with Mr. Thomas on the web site and subsequent press requests.
WWV intends for this movie to be shown at colleges and high schools as part of a history lesson featuring world events that coincided with the filming of this unscripted movie during the 1970 time frame.
Essentially, this is a Beatle’s movie in that John was still a member of the Fab Four and had yet to release any of his solo albums. However, the film features John working on songs which will later become well known pieces of his work.
There are some legal issues to be worked out but when that has all been rectified, this movie will be the equivalent of the Holy Grail for Beatle fans worldwide.