Attica State (BDJ remix)
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English - May 11, 2012 16:00 - 2 minutes - 3.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMusic beatles remixes lennon mccartney harrison mash-up Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Written about the prison riot of September 1971 in which at least 39 people died, Attica State was included on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album Some Time In New York City and released in June 1972.
The song was composed on 9 October 1971, John Lennon's 31st birthday. That night a party and jam session took place at a Syracuse hotel room. Lennon and Ono were joined by Klaus Voormann, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Keltner, Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and others.
A series of demo takes were recorded on 12 November 1971. The first two takes broke down, but the third reveals how Lennon and Ono alternated lines during the verses and joined together for the chorus. The source of this stereo remix is a - mono - acetate of (probably) this Take 3, or (possibly) another session.
The melody has some nursery rhyme like charm, chord changes are simple, and the lyrics are poor. What do you expect from a drunken Ono-Lennon composition ?