Live At The Lyceum

There was a concert organized to benefit the charity organization UNICEF that announced there would be an appearance by John, Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band. The concert would take place at the Lyceum Ballroom in London on December 15 1969. Geoff Emerick from EMI was asked to record some of the concert on four track tape for possible release.
The main reason for the concert was to promote both the "War Is Over" John and Yoko campaign as well as promoting the latest Apple single "Cold Turkey"/"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow". The members of the band contacted were Eric Clapton, Kalus Voorman and Alan White but Eric Clapton decided to bring some of the members of the Delaney and Bonnie Band with him including George Harrison, Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Jim Gordon, Billy Preston, Bobby Keys and even Keith Moon was on hand among others !!
The recording consisted of the entire crew bashing away on both sides of the single with the original B-Side (Don't Worry Kyoko) lasting over 40 minutes as a jam session. The song as released is heavily edited.
Stereo mixes of the two songs were prepared two days later on December 17 but they were deemed not good enough for release.
In October 1971 during the "Happy Xmas" session at the Record Plant East in New York City, the tapes were brought over and Nicky Hopkins added some keyboards to replace Billy Preston's supposedly "buried" track and some vocals were probably added as well. The original idea was to release the two songs as part of a "Live Jam" LP but plans changed and the tunes were finally released on the bonus Live LP included with the "Sometime In New York City" Apple LP/CD.