Video: 'john lennon and the plastic ono band sweet toronto 1969' (Lennon's performance begins at 16:43)

(Saturday, September 13, 1969, 11:45 p.m. EDT) — John Lennon of The Beatles and his wife, Yoko Ono, performed tonight at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival at Varsity Stadium.

Lennon, who had privately decided to leave The Beatles, hastily assembled a band, dubbed the Plastic Ono Band, for the performance, including Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voormann on bass and session musician Alan White on drums.

Lennon led the group through six songs: “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Money (That’s What I Want),” “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” “Yer Blues,” “Cold Turkey” and “Give Peace A Chance.”

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It was Lennon’s first musical performance on a concert stage since The Beatles’ final concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on Aug. 29, 1966.

Ono led the band with two avant garde musical numbers titled “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)” and the 12-minute “John John (Let’s Hope for Peace).”

The concert was recorded for Dec. 12, 1969, release of Lennon’s Live Peace in Toronto 1969 album.

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The performance was also captured by American documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker for his documentary “Sweet Toronto,” which also included a brief clip of Lennon’s arrival at the venue following an escort from the airport by the Vagabonds motorcycle gang can be seen his film “Sweet Toronto.”

Video: 'John Lennon Sweet Toronto 1969' (shots of Vagabonds motorcycle gang escorting musical artists, including John Lennon and The Doors, from the airport to Varsity Stadium begins at :38)