John Lennon & Friends 1971 Let's Have a Party /Syracuse, NY

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John Lennon's all-star 31st birthday party in Syracuse, New York

Guests for the opening night included Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Starkey, Allen Klein, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Frank Zappa, Spike Milligan, Jack Nicholson, Dick Cavett, John Cage and Dennis Hopper. Lennon gave all visitors a silver necklace to mark the occasion.
Yoko Ono's art exhibition This Is Not Here opens in Syracuse, New York

Both photos were taken while the couple were in Syracuse

HISTORY OF SYRACUSE MUSIC - CHAPTER 19 - JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO AT THE EVERSON MUSEUM - 1971 (Updated)

Here is the set list from that evening in Syracuse along with those singing

John Lennon - Syracuse, NY - 10-09-71.zip
John Lennon & Friends
Let's Have a Party
Syracuse, NY
October 9, 1971

1. What'd I Say
2. Yellow Submarine
3. On Top Of Old Smokey
4. Goodnight Irene
5. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
6. Like A Rolling Stone/Twist And Shout/Louie Louie/La Bamba
7. Bring It On Home To Me
8. Yesterday
9. Tandoori Chicken
10. Power To The People
11. Maybe Baby
12. Peggy Sue
13. My Baby Left Me
14. Blue Suede Shoes
15. Crippled Inside
16. Give Peace A Chance
17. Crippled Inside
18. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
19. Happy Birthday
20. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
21. My Sweet Lord

Voices you are hearing

John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Ringo Starr
Phil Spector
Eric Clapton
Klaus Voorman
Allen Ginsberg
Jim Keltner
Mal Evans
Neil Aspinall

 

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The write-up under this video says this get together was in a room at Hotel Syracuse

Here's one fans account of that evening

An original program for the exhibition "This is Not Here" by Yoko Ono and John Lennon at The Everson Art Museum in Syracuse, New York. The program is in newspaper format, dated October 9-27, 1971. The program includes clippings from Ono's career in the 1960s and an interview from the early 1970s. It also contains Lennon's drawings and quotes. The front page is the poster for the exhibition and given to attendees of the exhibition.

12 pages. 21 1/2 by 16 1/4 inches

Someone won this at auction for $250, it had been estimated at $400-600.

To the Syracuse Post-Standard:
Two surefire ways to upset Lennon: misunderstand Yoko Ono’s art and mention her more famous husband in the same review. The Post-Standard did both, prompting this letter from John & Yoko