John Lennon Birthday Tribute
DOUBLE FEATURE
On what would have been John Lennon’s 84th
birthday, come celebrate at the Crandell with
a double feature of Yesterday (2019) and
Daytime Revolution (2024).
For one extraordinary week in February 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. This new documentary by Erik Nelson takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the Mike Douglas Show, then the most popular show on television. With guests like George Carlin, Ralph Nader and Splendor in the Grass actress and former pinup Barbara Loden, John and Yoko liven up the talk show genre with their interviews and their music. John brings his signature wit and irreverence, Yoko her performance artist swagger, and both lean in to the political activism that drove them both.
“There was a charming ordinariness to it, no big woo that a Beatle had landed, a vibe [Lennon] orchestrated. This is an enjoyable time capsule, a portrait of a beloved artist. The Richard Nixon White House went to war with the couple two weeks after the broadcasts.” — Anne Brodie, What She Said
Erik Nelson
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mike Douglas, George Carlin, Barbara Loden, Ralph Nader