We all know Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, and the co-star of this year’s gritty rural drama Get Low.
But in 1968, she called herself Rainbo and sang a pop ditty titled, “John, You Went Too Far This Time” — a hallucinogenic screed against Beatle John Lennon and his lady love Yoko Ono for appearing naked on the cover of their latest experimental album.
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Sissy’s in good voice, I’m happy to say, but the song is pretty hazy, with a few too many mood changes as it tries for a “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” kind of swirl.
When the single bombed, Rainbo was promptly dropped from the label, but she ended up doing better than a lot of other Sissys I know. In fact, she’s one of the long-standing treasures of my cinematic life!
By the way, I learned this tidbit from the new memorabilia book John Lennon, Life Is What Happens by John M. Borack, which I have on my shelf next to my Playbill from Carrie, the musical.