John Lennon - I'm Losing You - with Cheap Trick

What this video is

This video exists at the intersection of two historical moments: the August 1980 Hit Factory sessions during Lennon's creative comeback, and the 1998 archival excavation surrounding the John Lennon Anthology boxset. The Cheap Trick version of the track — recorded on 12 August 1980 with Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos, but omitted from Double Fantasy — was finally released on the Anthology in 1998, 18 years after…

Why it matters

Represents a rare instance of a posthumous archival music video that successfully bridges two eras of production, serving as both a document of Lennon's 1980 recording practice and a 1998 artifact of legacy rock marketing. The video is historically significant as one of the few visual records tied…

The director

Dean Karr is an American music video and commercial director known for his work in the late 1990s and 2000s, directing videos across rock and metal genres. He has worked with numerous major acts and is noted for visually inventive, effects-driven production…