The two-hour film - for North American residents- offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the famous 1971 album was made: George Harrison, smoking, while he played guitar; Phil Spector wearing sunglasses and a suit while he produced songs and talking about waking up Eric Clapton so he could come play; and at the center of it all, the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Michael Epstein, the documentary’s director, said they started working on it in spring last year after Yoko Ono contacted him. Epstein told that he was given access to footage that had not been made public before. When he looked at the material Ono made available, he said he was ‘gobsmacked.’
Ono, who was interviewed for the new documentary, talked about their relationship in terms of the big picture, and said: ‘The fact that John and I met was to do this song.’
Michael Epstein, the documentary’s director, said that Lennon chose Ono not only to be his romantic partner but a creative one as well.
‘They were each’s other muse and her voice had a huge influence on his work… that you can see most obviously in a song like Imagine,’ he told DailyMail.com. ‘In so many ways that is very much the culmination of the two artists coming together as one.’
"John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky" March 11 at 9pm.
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