A new documentary chronicles John Lennon’s initial solo present outdoors of the Beatles. Revival69: The Reside overall performance That Rocked the Planet opens on June 28.

Celebrated documentarian D.A. Pennebaker – who also developed the 1967 Bob Dylan film Will not Glimpse Once again, 1968’s Monterey Pop and 1979’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars – shot the footage from the 1969 Toronto Rock N Roll Revival the approaching film is directed and generated by Ron Chapman.

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the Whole planet also functions appearances by Minimal Richard, the Doors, Chuck Berry and Alice Cooper.

You can view the film’s trailer down beneath.

Lennon’s all round overall performance with the Plastic Ono Band took region on Sept. 13, 1969, as the Beatles had just wrapped recording on their final album, Abbey Highway. His reside overall performance integrated addresses of “Blue Suede Sneakers,” “Dollars (That is What I Want)” and “Dizzy Overlook Lizzy,” as adequately as the Beatles’ tune “Yer Blues” and his solo “Cold Turkey” and “Give Peace a Chance.”

That exhibit was documented on the 1969 album Dwell Peace in Toronto.

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In addition to Yoko Ono, Lennon was joined onstage by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White. The film paperwork his route to the pageant phase, which also consists of performances by rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Bo Diddley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Interviews with Cooper, the Doors’ Robby Kreiger and Geddy Lee, the Rush co-founder who attended the reside overall performance.

What Beatles Motion pictures Are Ready for 2024?

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World is just a single of a handful of Beatles films having ready. Their extended-out-of-circulation Permit It Be documentary will be shown on Disney+ on May perhaps possibly eight, and four new biopics are in the operates telling the Beatles’ tale from just about each and every member’s point of view.

Sam Mendes, who directed American Magnificence, 1917 and two James Bond films, Skyfall and Spectre, is behind the creation of the films, which are nonetheless in the organizing phases.