Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen Talks Being Cut From John Lennon Album
. Like most other bands of their generation, the guys from Cheap Trick were huge Beatles fans. So it must have been a thrill for guitarist Rick Nielsen and drummer Bun E. Carlos when they received an invite to play on a John Lennon album. As Nielsen recalled in this interview, they played on Lennon's "I'm Losing You" and "one other song that Yoko was caterwauling on" (that would be "I'm Moving On"; Double Fantasy was credited to Lennon and Ono, each of them wrote and sang half the songs). Sadly, however, the Cheap Trick guys' parts were replaced by session hands. The Nielsen/Carlos version, which also featured Tony Levin on bass, remained in the vaults for years until finally seeing the light of day on 1998's John Lennon Anthology box set. A music video was also created for that version of the song, with animation that utilizes some of Lennon's drawings. Watch it here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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