"India, India" is a song written by John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 and recorded in 1980 but not released until 2010's John Lennon Signature Box

John Lennon Signature Box

The John Lennon Signature Box is an 11-disc box set of remastered John Lennon albums and new collections, released on CD and digital format, as part of the "Gimme Some Truth" collection...

. The song, with "I Don't Want to Lose You

Now and Then (song)

"Now and Then" is the name given to an unreleased composition by John Lennon...

", was also featured in the 2005 musical Lennon

Lennon (musical)

Lennon is a musical with music and lyrics by John Lennon and book by Don Scardino, who also directed its premiere. The musical is about the life of John Lennon and was notable for Scardino's choice to be almost exclusively-based on Lennon's own words and to focus on Lennon's solo career, with no...

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History

This song, with various others, was originally written for the un-made 70s play, "The Ballad of John and Yoko". "India, India" was one of two previously-unreleased songs issued on the John Lennon Signature Box in 2010 (the other was "One of the Boys"). The song was inspired by the Beatles stay in India in 1968.