Sweet Toronto

Infobox_Film
name = Sweet Toronto
caption = VHS cover of "Sweet Toronto"
director = D.A. Pennebaker
producer = Matt Friedman
Peter Hansen
Mark Woodcock
writer =
starring = John Lennon
Eric Clapton
Klaus Voorman
Alan White
Yoko Ono
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bo Diddley
Chuck Berry
music =
cinematography = D.A. Pennebaker
Roger Murphy
Richard Leacock
editing =
distributor = BMG
released = 1971
runtime = 70 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0498719|

"Sweet Toronto" (sometimes referred as "Sweet Toronto Peace Festival") is a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker of the rock and roll revival concert in Toronto in September, 1969. John Lennon played as part of the Plastic Ono Band, whose members also included Yoko Ono, Klaus Voorman, Alan White, and Eric Clapton. (Their set was released as the album "Live Peace in Toronto 1969".) The video also features a selection of other acts: Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley. The actual concert lasted twelve hours, but Pennebaker's documentary focuses mainly on the final hours of the concert. Film reviewers at the time were similarly affected. Latterly, though, both the performances and this film have grown in interest and watchability, particularly given the rarity of such thorough documentation of these key performers' work in concert.

Track listing

# "Bo Diddley"
#* "Performed by Bo Diddley"
# "Hound Dog"
#* "Performed by Jerry Lee Lewis"
# "Johnny B. Goode"
#* "Performed by Chuck Berry"
# "Lucille"
#* "Performed by Little Richard"
# "Blue Suede Shoes"
# "Money (That's What I Want)"
# "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
# "Yer Blues"
# "Cold Turkey"
# "Give Peace a Chance"
# "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)"
# "John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)"
#* "Tracks 5-12 performed by The Plastic Ono Band"

The complete sets by Berry, Little Richard and Lewis were subsequently released as their own films.