One to One concert film reworked

Fake poster made after the fact.

The Record Store Day EP with music from John and Yoko’s “One to One” concerts for the children of Willowbrook has reached some of the “unboxing” YouTubers and the likes (we didn’t get one), with an accompanying card from Sean Lennon. 

Record Store Day EP 2025

In the text, Sean describes the problems they had with the audio recordings (microphone changes between the first and second concerts etc.), but is pleased with the outcome, which is going to be a collection of both concerts in a boxed set as well as on LPs,CDs and streaming. This is coming out in conjunction with John Lennon’s 85th birthday (and Sean’s 50th) in October.

Mixing the concert recordings was really fun, mainly because there was a lot of work to do. For whatever reason, the technical side of the One to One concerts seemed a bit haphazard and disorganized.
Between the matine and the evening shows, there were microphone changes and stage layout changes that seemed to be last minute decisions. This all made for some compromised recordings in terms of leaks and lack of coverage. So it was a lot of work. But that makes it more rewarding from my experience.
It gave us a chance to really put our heads together and find solutions. Paul Hicks and Simon Hilton and I spent a lot of time finding the best possible balance to keep the feeling of the live show while refining the overall sound as much as possible, and Sam Gannon did some meticulous and miraculous work with audio restoration. I won’t disclose all our techiques, but there was some «movie magic» required, and I think in the end the two shows sound better than ever.

Sean Ono Lennon

The film will follow, Sean continues, and has been completely re-edited from scratch in comparison to the two concert films we got in the eighties and nineties, on video cassettes and laser discs. As followers of the blog will remember, producer Jack Douglas was given the task of re-doing both the sound and the film back in 2013, but his versions were never released.

A 1992 Laser Disc from the ABC TV Special

Our source: Beatley Tone’s Beatles Channel (YouTube)