The very uncommon letter that John Lennon wrote to Eric Clapton pitching him a brand new music venture has been revealed earlier than it’s set to be auctioned off.
RadarOnline.com can reveal surprising particulars concerning the eight-page draft letter from September 1971 that Lennon wrote throughout one of the tumultuous occasions in Clapton’s life.
In response to the bombshell letter, Lennon needed Clapton to hitch a supergroup within the early Nineteen Seventies to assist “convey again the balls in rock ’n’ roll.”
The enduring singer expressed his admiration for Clapton and his music, as he revealed his plans for the venture.
Within the letter, Lennon proposes to type a “nucleus group” with different musicians — Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner, Nicky Hopkins, and Phil Spector.
Lennon’s letter was written about the identical time his solo profession was taking off following the discharge of the track “Think about.”
The previous Beatles icon wrote: “You will need to know by now that Yoko [his then-wife] and I fee your music and your self very extremely. You additionally know the music we have now been making and hope to make.
“Anyway… after lacking the Bangla-desh live performance we started to really feel increasingly like happening the highway however not the best way I used to with the Beatles, evening after evening of torture.”
The Bangladesh live performance was a profit gig that featured big-name musicians on the time and was organized by fellow Beatle George Harrison.
In Lennon’s letter, he defined his thought to go on tour in a brand new manner and toss apart the nightly “torture” he skilled throughout his time with The Beatles.
As well as, Lennon confirmed sympathy for the struggles that Clapton was dealing with on the time.
Within the early Nineteen Seventies, Clapton had stepped away from the highlight whereas battling a heroin dependancy, in addition to the controversy surrounding his romance with Pattie Boyd, Harrison’s then-wife.
Lennon wrote: “Each of us have been [via[ the identical type of sh–/ache that I do know you have had, and I do know we might assist one another in that space, however primarily Eric, I do know I can convey out one thing nice, the truth is larger in you that has been up to now evident in your music, I hope to convey out the identical type of greatness in all of us, which I do know will occur if/once we get collectively.
“I am not attempting to stress you in any manner and would fairly perceive if you happen to determine in opposition to becoming a member of us, we’d nonetheless love and respect you. We’re not asking in your ‘identify,’ I’m positive you realize this, it is your thoughts we wish!”
Lennon saved the draft letter, and particulars concerning the ultimate model that was despatched are usually not identified right now.
Within the public sale, the letter is predicted to be priced at round $158,000 (€150,000) on December 5.
Worldwide Autograph Auctions Europe SL described the letter as “one of many rarest types of Lennon’s private communications out there.”
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