Mixing: God Save Us, Do The Oz by John Lennon/Elastic Oz Band

Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector
Engineer: Phil McDonald

John Lennon had recorded ‘God Save Us’ on 17 April and 22 May, along with its b-side ‘Do The Oz’ on the latter date. A mixing session for both songs was held on 23 May at Abbey Road, London.

Further work on both songs took place on 16 June. Bill Elliott overdubbed his lead vocals, replacing Lennon’s guide vocals, along with additional vocals by Yoko Ono.

I sang it just to show him how to sing it, how it should go, and we got this guy that Mal had found in a group called Half-Breed or something, and he sounded like Paul. So I thought, ‘That’s a commercial sound,’ – it would have been nice to have Paul’s voice singing ‘God Save Us’ – but the guy imitated more my demo, so he sounds like himself because he doesn’t sound like me really, but he doesn’t sound like Paul either.