Leni Sinclair, ex-wife of the late John Sinclair, spoke about her relationship with John Lennon and Yoko Ono following a recent screening of the new documentary about the couple's activist period in the 1970s, which is captured in the new documentary, "One to One: John & Yoko."
Via MLive:
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s concert performance at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in December 1971 has been part of Ann Arbor lore for over 53 years.
The electrifying night at Crisler Arena and the events that came before and after it are now prominently featured in the new documentary “One to One: John and Yoko.”
...[The film] includes Lennon on the phone with his manager discussing how long to stay and which songs to play at the Ann Arbor rally to free Sinclair, the Ann Arbor poet and band manager who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for two marijuana joints. Lennon talked then about a new song he wrote about Sinclair and wanting to play his song “Attica State,” which he did.
The film then shows footage inside Crisler Arena that night, Sinclair being released from state prison days later and an emotional reunion with his family, hugging his two daughters.
...[Leni] Sinclair still remembers Lennon and Ono calling the day after her husband was released and enthusiastically discussing what they wanted to do next.
She also recalled some of what went on behind the scenes when Stevie Wonder found out Lennon and Ono were coming for the rally at Crisler.
“He volunteered to come to play also with a whole entourage of about 40 people ... and he paid for everything himself,” she said.
Sinclair said Lennon insisted on going out to see Wonder’s performance, while the late Ann Arbor music promoter Peter Andrews, who organized the event, advised against it, telling Lennon he would be mobbed by fans. Still, Lennon declared, “I have to go see Stevie. You don’t understand. Stevie Wonder is our Beatles,” Sinclair recalled him saying.
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