John and Yoko on the streets of Manhattan in 1980. “You know I could walk down the street and people say, ‘Hi John! How are ya? How’s the baby?’” Lennon told the BBC’s Andy Peebles.
Over’, ‘Watching The Wheels’ and ‘Woman’, and even newer songs that had been set aside for the couple’s next projected album release, Milk And Honey, including ‘Nobody Told Me’, ‘Borrowed Time’ and Ono’s disco-flavoured ‘Walking On Thin Ice’ – the last track that the pair worked on. A specially-written ‘Nutopian’ anthem,
‘One World, One People’, is said to have been earmarked as the set’s finale jam at every show. Guitarist Earl Slick, who had performed on Double Fantasy and ‘Fame’, Lennon’s 1975 collaboration with David Bowie, says: “John was constantly referring to The Beatles and his early love of rock’n’roll
“Talk of a possible tour seemed to increase on an almost daily basis...” Earl Slick 9