Lennon's 1969 Toronto Show On DVD

John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band played Toronto's Rock 'N' Roll Revival Festival in 1969 on the eve of the release of the last album The Beatles recorded, Abbey Road. The set was the only John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band performance captured on film, and it will be released on DVD through Shout! Factory Records on June 23.

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band Live In Toronto '69 was shot by Academy Award-nominated director D.A. Pennebaker (The War Room, Don't Look Back). It includes covers of rock'n'roll classics, performances of The Beatles' "Yer Blues," Lennon's "Give Peace A Chance," Yoko Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)" and "John John (Let's Hope For Peace)," and the first public performance of Lennon's "Cold Turkey." The DVD also features a 1988 interview with Ono.

Lennon and Ono's band were composed of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voorman and drummer Alan White. Lennon hadn't played on stage with The Beatles for three years, and the performance was later released as a live album titled Live Peace In Toronto 1969, which came out that same year and was supposed to be a soundtrack to Pennebaker's 1971 Sweet Toronto documentary.

The DVD also includes performances from early rock 'n' rollers like Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.

Nowhere Boy, the biopic about Lennon's childhood that's being directed by artist Sam Taylor-Wood, may be shelved because a Lennon biographer says material from one of his books is being used without his permission.

Geoffrey Giuliano says Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird, took material from the John Lennon, My Brother biography she wrote with Giuliano in 1989 and used it in another memoir titled Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon, according to the Click Liverpool website.

Giuliano says Baird did this without his permission, but he decided not to take legal action then. Nowhere Boy apparently draws "heavily" from Imagine This, and Giuliano now says he wants to sue.

"Everything that was additional information in Imagine This was uncovered by me in my original research for John Lennon, My Brother," he says, according to the website.

"I was restricted by Julia from including a lot of very interesting information that I learned in the course of my research, including the relationship between Mimi and Julia Lennon, and the fight over where John would live, because Mimi and other older members of the family were still alive at the time.

"But all that 'new' material was my research, part of the work that Julia Baird and I were 50/50 partners in.

"There’s only one reason she did it, and that's to screw me out of my share."

Here's what's on John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band Live In Toronto '69:

Bo Diddley — "Bo Diddley"
Jerry Lee Lewis — "Hound Dog"
Little Richard — "Lucille"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Blue Suede Shoes"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Money"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Yer Blues"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Cold Turkey"
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band — "Give Peace A Chance"
Yoko Ono — "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)"
Yoko Ono — "John John (Let's Hope For Peace)"
Bonus 1988 interview with Yoko Ono