Instant Karma! -
Behind The Scenes of Onobox

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Commenting on the Plastic ONO Band and their first appearance in Toronto last year, John Lennon says, "We started off doing things like 'Blue Suede Shoes,' rehearsing on the plane. It was a mad-house! Everybody was really together. It was as solid as - and so we did all the 'Money' and 'Dizzie Miss Lizzie' bit and it was fantastic.

"Everybody was with us and leaping up and down and doing the peace sign, because they knew most of the numbers anyway, and we did a number called 'Cold Turkey' we'd never done before, and they dug it like mad.

"...it was the first performance...and the way Eric and Klaus and Alan, the drummer who used to be with Alan Price, the way we got it together was like we'd been playing for years.

"It looks like this is going to be the Plastic Ono Band in the future! I don't know though...it's very flexible.

"The whole thing was a laugh, because I got the call at nine o'clock on Friday night; left Saturday morning at three a.m.; and before they'd even hung up, I had the group together!"

John on Apple....

John and Paul flew to New York City two years ago to introduce Apple to the press. They made the following comments on Apple at the time: John in reply to a question of what is Apple: "It's a business concern, records, films, and electronics, and as a sideline, manufacturing, or whatever it's called. We want to set up a system whereby people who just want to make a film about anything don't have to go on their knees in somebody's office."

Asked whether the individual members of the group had specific areas of interest in Apple, John replied, "Well, it might develop that way, I mean the thing is, we'll use the facilities of Apple as well as whoever joins us and whichever one we get into, there's nothing planned."

May 11, 1968 -

Amidst "Tonight Show" appearances and walking incognito through Central Park, John and Paul display their sincere intentions to make Apple an artistic success as well as a financially viable operation with meetings to get Apple Films and Records launched as well as a press conference to announce Apple to the press.

Accompanied by six members of their executive team, Neil Aspinall, Brian Lewis, Denis O'Dell, Ron Kass, Mal Evans and Derek Taylor, John and Paul announced that Beatles Ltd. had undergone a transformation to Apple Corps Ltd., a world-wide group of companies held equally by John, Paul, George and Ringo. Described as "a new concept in business organizations," the establishment of Apple was intented "to give other artists much wider creative latitude than they have ever enjoyed in the past."

June 1968-