Video: 'Sunday Bloody Sunday (Remastered 2010)'

(Saturday, February 12, 1972; during The Troubles) — Former Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, began recording the studio tracks for Some Time in New York City, a part-studio, part-live double album, recording the protest song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” in Studio A at the Record Plant recording studio in New York City.

The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, “The Luck of the Irish” being the other.

Lennon and the band also jammed on this day to Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven,” which would go unreleased.

Video: 'John Lennon - Roll Over Beethoven'

Released in June 1972 in the U.S. and in September 1972 in the UK, it was the third studio album to bear Lennon’s name since he left The Beatles, and his fourth with Ono (the first three were experimental albums released in 1968-69). Lennon and Ono were backed by members of the American rock band Elephant’s Memory.

Like Lennon’s previous solo albums, it was co-produced by Lennon, Ono, and Phil Spector. Recording sessions would continue through March 20, 1972, the couple’s third wedding anniversary.

The album’s lyrics are very politically charged compared to its predecessors, discussing political and social issues and topics such as sexism, incarceration, colonialism, and racism.