John Lennon's cover of The Ronettes' 'Be My Baby' was a love letter to Yoko Ono

John Lennon and Yoko Ono endured a brief separation around 1973 and because of it, The Beatle’s rarely heard cover of The Ronettes iconic hit ‘Be My Baby’ acts as a pleading love letter.

Recorded late in 1973 as part of the Rock ‘N’ Roll sessions for Lennon’s covers album with infamous producer Phil Spector, the track remained a rarely heard bootleg for many years until it was finally released as part of The Beatles singer’s solo Anthology box set back in 1998.

Lennon’s may well be one of many, many covers of the 1963 hit written by Spector, Ellie Greenwich, and Jeff Barry, but none sound quite like this. Much of that was down to Phil Spector picking up on a new arrangement of The Ronettes song ‘Baby I Love You’ from none other than Cher.

Source: Jack Whatley/faroutmagazine.co.uk

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