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                                           Incredibly Rare U. S.  7" ACETATE on a AUDIODISC label ~ The vinyl is in very good condition with only the very slightest of surface storage  marks, the label is clear and unmarked and the spindle   shows no wear at all ~ An absolute must for any serious collector of THE BEATLES!

Where do we start with this unique gem?

After extensive research this appears to be the only copy to have turned up and is unbelievably rare! I purchased this Acetate myself in a very reputable Record Store in Greenwich Village in New York in 1979 and paid what I considered to be a small fortune myself at that time. Although I knew it was a very rare item when I bought it I never realised how rare until I started researching it a short while ago, the following hopefully will give an insight into the Acetate but as always I would gladly appreciate any further info from anyone out there who might be able to contribute!

The following info has been taken from extremely well known and respected books, websites and individuals to whom I am greatly appreciative.

The story goes that John recorded the tapes for this Acetate on the 1st June 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios, his home recording facility at Tittenhurst Park near Ascot in Berkshire before boarding a plane later that day with Yoko to go to New York and taking with him the master tapes! They were then cut at CAPITOL MAGNETICS WINCHESTER, Virginia in the U.S. or so appears to be from the AUDIODISC label although it could have been quite easily been cut in New York and the AUDIODISC Label put on as they were available in the studio as is often the case. The Acetate itself has only one centre hole but you can clearly see and feel another punch hole under the label which was not uncommon on a number of pressing machines for holding the Acetate firmly in place whilst it was being cut.

What is unique about this Acetate is that when the single was eventually released a month later by the PLASTIC OZ BAND it featured 'DO THE OZ' as the B-Side where this Acetate has the track(credited to the PLASTIC ONO BAND) as 'ROCK PEACE/PIECE JAM" therefore being a completely unreleased LENNON track! The A-Side 'GOD SAVE US' is also credited on the label as being a DEMO and is a different version to the one that eventually appeared on the Anthology release some years later.

Lennon was working closely with PHIL SPECTOR at the time and the track was most likely cut by Spector as a vocal guide for BILL ELLIOT who eventually was chosen as the vocalist for the single release in July 1971.

Acetates are always rare items due to the fact that very few are ever cut(normally around 5) but this item given the fact that it is LENNON and has never been released by the great man himself and with the completely unreleased B-Side it has to be one of the most collectible items in existence for LENNON!

The following extract is taken from the 'BEATLES BIBLE' and gives a little more insight into the recording itself and the musicians who took part in this historic recording including RINGO STARR himself!

God Save Oz

Written by: Lennon-Ono
Recorded: 22 May; June 1971
Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Mal Evans

Released: 2 November 1998

John Lennon: vocals, electric guitar
Klaus Voormann: bass guitar
Bobby Keys: saxophone
Diane: keyboards
Ringo Starr: drums

Available on:
John Lennon Anthology
Wonsaponatime

Written and recorded in support of the defence fund during Oz magazine's obscenity trial, God Save Oz was recorded by Lennon and the Elastic Oz Band, and released as a single in July 1971.

Oz was part of the British underground press, and featured a mixture of satire, humour, current affairs and political issues. Issue 28, published in May 1970, was known as Schoolkids OZ, and followed an open invitation by editor Richard Neville for people below the age of 18 to take part.

Schoolkids OZ was edited by children and featured a mixture of typically adolescent jokes and drawings. One particularly notorious feature titled 'Rupert finds gypsy granny', created by 15-year-old Vivian Berger, had the head of Rupert Bear pasted onto a cartoon figure by Robert Crumb, pulling down the underwear of another and saying: "My curiosity is aroused... I'll just take a peek an' then split!"

The Obscene Publications Squad raided the Oz offices, and on 18 August 1970 the magazine was served a summons for "publishing an obscene magazine". Richard Neville and his co-editors, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis, were found guilty at an Old Bailey trial in 1971, given prison sentences but eventually released on bail.

The magazine set up Friends Of Oz to raise money for its legal costs. One of the Friends, Stan Demidjuk, knew John Lennon, and asked if he might help the defendants. Lennon agreed to write and record a song, for which all the royalties would be donated to Oz, and attended a march in support of the Oz Three. He recorded a home demo on 13 April 1971, featuring acoustic guitar and congas.

"Stan and some people from Oz rang up and said, 'Will you make us a record?' and I thought, 'Well, I can't,' because I'm all tied up contractually and I didn't know how to do it. So then we got down to would I write a song for them? I think we wrote it the same night, didn't we? We wrote it together and the b-side. First of all we wrote it as God Save Oz, you know, 'God save Oz from it all,' but then we decided they wouldn't really know what we were talking about in America so we changed it back to 'us'." John Lennon
Sounds magazine

Lennon recorded the song at Ascot Sound Studios, his home recording facility at Tittenhurst Park near Ascot in Berkshire. The musicians who had played on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album were joined by members of the Oz team for God Save Oz and its b-side, Do The Oz.

In the studio, Lennon led a number of live performances of God Save Oz, singing a guide vocal with each take. It was never his intention to sing on the final version, as he didn't want the song to be the official follow-up to the successful Power To The People.

An underground musician known as Magic Michael was initially selected to sing, but he was later replaced by Bill Elliot, whose vocals were recorded by Mal Evans after Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City.

"We got one singer in, and he was all right, but he'd never had much experience recording - or singing actually, because he needed some experience singing and holding vaguely around the note. I can't hold a note - all my songs are all sung out of tune, but I can get fairly near it sometimes. This guy was way off, but it didn't work, so then I sang it just to show him how to sing it, how it should go, and we got this guy that Mal had found in a group called Half-breed or something, and he sounded like Paul. So I thought, 'That's a commercial sound,' - it would have been nice to have Paul's voice singing God Save Oz - but the guy imitated more my demo, so he sounds like himself because he doesn't sound like me really, but he doesn't sound like Paul either." John Lennon

God Save Oz was issued as a single by Apple in July 1971, but failed to chart in either the US or UK. It was credited to Bill Elliot & The Elastic Oz Band. Elliot, who appeared on the picture sleeve, later became one half of Splinter, a group signed to George Harrison's Dark Horse label in the 1970s.

Lennon's guide vocal performance of God Save Oz was included on the 1998 box set John Lennon Anthology, and also on the highlights collection Wonsaponatime.

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Artist: JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND

Title: GOD SAVE US/ROCK PEACE PIECE JAM

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