It’s great to hear him this relaxed, I’ll always love John. He is proof that human beings can grow

@waynej2608

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. John was evolving, right up to the end.

@danielupsdell2697

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he did grow up into the man he always wanted to be

@lisaparsons4124

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree John Lennon is proof humans can grow.John Lennon a awesome singer and song writer

@vianne6093

11 ай бұрын

John had come full circle. He was happy and at peace . In an interview with the BBC, he said I can walk down the street with no fear, I'm happy and whole. And then some sick selfish monster comes along and it's over. I love my brother John. May he be in death as he was in life. Powerful, beautiful, and all love, all the time. 😊

@vianne6093

11 ай бұрын

And the best sence of humor. 😊

He was so real.

The love for his son is a beautiful thing. John did not live a normal life and lived through a lot of loss. I’m sorry his sons didn’t have him in their lives very long.

If I could back in history he’d be the person I would want to meet most

He is a fantastic artist.

@elleryeggen9678

2 жыл бұрын

Horrible person. Awful dad, violent husband. Terrible friend. Corrupt business partner.

@ralex3697

2 жыл бұрын

Was

@lisaparsons4124

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree 💯

@aboolaylaa1984

Жыл бұрын

@@ralex3697 Relax

One of the best I’ve heard. I’m a huge Lennon guy, thank you for this. r.i.p. Johnny

@lisaparsons4124

2 жыл бұрын

Love John Lennon a awesome singer and song writer alot of great songs ❣️ RIPJOHN Lennon 💐

Sad but sweet. 💜 How we miss him🥺 RIP John.

This is fantastic!!!!! He was a gem. I miss him. ☮️💟

This is an incredible interview; perhaps the best I have ever heard with John. I give much of the credit to Lisa Robinson, who asks intellegent and thoughtful questions...the kind I always want to hear in interviews but rarely do. John is relaxed and wanting to talk, and the combination of the two coming together (no pun intended!) is really brilliant. My favorite moment is when he is talking about how he stopped playing music 5 years before, discovered there is this other life that is rich and satisfying, and so now the pressure was off. He knew he could live without it.

@thequintonflynn

2 жыл бұрын

I relate. And changed #9 likes to #10. He’s October 9th. I’m October 10th. Dig it.

@MrThermostatic

2 жыл бұрын

I love her classic New York accent which is now a thing of the past. It's a shame how homogenized New York City became. New York lost its character.

@waynej2608

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrThermostatic Sad, but true. I still have mine, but it does seem to be fading out, in general. Yes, Lisa Robinson is very impressive. Always liked her style.

This was one of the most in depth personal interviews I've ever heard with John. Six weeks after this interview, he was taken from us.

@thequintonflynn

2 жыл бұрын

And sad to say they deified him just the same way he said they would in this interview had he passed in the mid 70’s. Prescient.

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

what an incredible shame when a lunatic took his life, I was 13 at the time, I remember it like it was yesterday.

@lisaparsons4124

2 жыл бұрын

So sad John Lennon was taken from us,by that crazyevil man, love John Lennon music,a awesome singer and song writer

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisaparsons4124 absolutely, but he just happened to be famous, it happens every day, but what a pointless thing to do, beyond belief but that's what some people are like, if you was unlucky you could be walking down the street and get murdered by a random stranger, it's rare but it happens, you never know what's around the corner.

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

and these things happen when you're least expecting it, I bet John Lennon must have thought what's happened to me? but reading articles about it that guy was sinister and when John Lennon signed his album in the famous photo, when he came back to the Dakota building he was still there, waiting, John Lennon was uneasy about this bloke but I don't suppose he could ever have imagined what was going to happen.

I still have a signed cassette from him

@davidlee2490

2 жыл бұрын

cool

@elizabethburke637

11 ай бұрын

Imagine it is worth a great deal

What a great guy.

John Lennon was incredibly kind and nice to his fans he had total respect for them and was very open and honest. Something I really admired about John Lennon was he didn't talk down to people like in a patronising way and nor did Yoko. It sounds like he had a lot of early rejection in life. He had a very tough life in some ways. He wasn't pretentious at all.

@morbidmanmusic

Жыл бұрын

Oh, someone always has to make a cliche Yoko is ______'comments.

@AndreaElizabeth100

Жыл бұрын

@@morbidmanmusic I love Yoko Ono and John Lennon loved Yoko Ono. Please have some respect for Yoko Ono as she was John Lennon's wife. What is more Yoko Ono isn't condescending or patronising. Please leave her alone.

He was always interesting, smart and funny. ☮️💟☮️💟

The way some people talk about john lennon, you would think he was a serial killer or something lmao John was just human that made some mistakes. Yes john could have been a better father to julian but many people get divorced and start new families, not just john lennon. John was becoming a better father to julian and was keeping in contact with julian through the years. There is sooo many pictures of them together. And also the wife beater thing is highly exaggerated, it's getting tiring reading those damn comments. John hit cythia once as a young man, he apologized and never hit her again, cynthia herself in her book said it was only once. Why does no one mention ringo abusing his wife but only john gets singled out as this evil person. Ringo used to beat his wife barbara, ringo said this himself. There is so many untrue rumors about john lennon floating around these days, i even heard a rumour of john hitting julian which is the biggest bullshit story i haver heard. Was john perfect? No, of course not but he wasn't this monster some people are trying to paint him as these days

Sean is grown up, very bright, and very much around.

I always find time to listen to anything John Lennon says; this is no exception - a great interview with the great and sadly departed man. RIP John. Thanks for uploading.

I still miss his creative energy and cheeky sense of humour. 🕊

John Lennon was a awesome singer and song writer,a great artist.Love and remember his music, and in1980,I was 14, when he passed.May John Lennon RIP 💐💙

A very unique and talented man I didn't agree with everything he did but he always had my respect as far as music goes it was the best I love John Lennon I miss John Lennon.

I thought I heard everything. Thanks for posting. Great to see new stuff turn up.

That was really interesting. I always enjoy coming across stuff like this.

This is amazing to hear from John. He covers a lot of topics in a short time. Thanks for posting this .

John was in a good mood on Those days.Would be great still have him nowadays.

He sounded really happy and peaceful towards the end of his life.

Very very good interview - Never heard this before. Thanks for sharing!

Yes very incite full interview with some stuff I haven’t heard before!

It's amazing how much he changed the world. He started The Beatles and world-wide, people followed. I remember when John started wearing glasses in public. Right after, every guy has the same style, every where. In the Sixties, life revolved around The Beatles. Truly a cultural phenomenon. John&Yoko4Ever

Rest In Peace John Lennon 1940-1980. Good Interview!

The Beatles were so many things, Musical geniuses, husbands, fathers, bakers, gardeners, family men, buddies,icons, producers,painters, poets, actors, innovators. Truly, growth was the most common theme, aside from the Peace and Love movement they pioneered! What a gift and a loss all in one. John Lennon For Ever.

Yes indeed😊I very great conversation💖

John was always so real from day 1

Read almost every book listened to almost every interview never heard this before why

@jchow5966

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. This is terrific!!!!!

I was born Kirkdale 1950 i lived near by these guys seen it all way back then & NOTHING comes close to these boys in a world full of "Buble gum " music i later went on to get hooked on to Dylan,Bowie & Leonard cohen, the crap we have now is simply that>

@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks

2 жыл бұрын

That’s very cool! Thank You for sharing. I’ve loved The Beatles since I was little. Peace and Love to you!

@jiles7726

Жыл бұрын

It was magic maybe even cosmic with the Beatles and how they made so many classics and started talking about love and Spirituality and justice. Uncanny

One of the best JL interviews!!!!!!!! Thank you! ☮️💟☮️💟

John, probably listening to the Beeb on shortwave. I wish he lived, his voice and contribution in all the crisis we’ve been through since he left us would have been interesting.

@senseichess8688

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed

@clark82

2 жыл бұрын

In 79/80 the BBC were talking about scrapping the BBC World Service and John was very vocal in keeping this service going (it was clear that he was more home sick than he let on throughout the 70’s…. One of his favourite things to do in NYC was to sneak away from Yoko and go to a Irish bar and read the English newspapers that had arrived fresh off the plane)

Great interview

Great interview - maybe the most relaxed / normal / honest ever

Wonderful interview. ❤️🙏🏻❤️

When he talked about working 6 hours to come up with a song...and nothing happened...then Nowhere Man just channeled thru...Jeeeez... that's just so amazing to think about. What a great interview. 😃

@jchow5966

2 жыл бұрын

Agree!!!

@morbidmanmusic

Жыл бұрын

That's generally how song writing happens....

This is shown to me on my mobil from 1980...

Excellent upload and channel! Subbed. Thanks!

simply Amazing !!!!

RIP John..imagine..........

Excellent interviewer. She never interrupted him.

I was getting ready for school I was 11 me mum shouted up John's been shot jam 55 soon it's never left me. Rip John miss you so much x

Wow, that was fantastic. Has this been circulating for a while? I listen to nothing John, I'm surprised I never heard this before.

Oh my gosh. The amount of condemnation from these comments!!. So are you all perfect in your life?? Nothing you regret? I did things in my 20 and 30 that I'm not proud of but I learned from them. You without sin cast the first stone!. Yea he was young in his 20 and maybe wasn't the best dad. But he grew up and was better with Sean. Good greif people... we grow up and grow as a person!!!

This interview sounds like he had come to terms with life and got rid of all his demons....Sure miss him. I am almost certain there would of been a reunion in the 90's or early 2000's had he not been murdered.

@apollomemories7399

2 жыл бұрын

I was never certain of a reunion. He'd have turned his life back upside down and end up absolutely never able to do the simplicities of his life such as to go out for a stroll in the park. He already had enough difficulties with his privacy as it was. Hence, employing Fred Seaman to do everything for him.

@BeesWaxMinder

2 жыл бұрын

They would’ve for LiveAid IMO

@apollomemories7399

2 жыл бұрын

@@BeesWaxMinder You're dreaming. They had no interest for George's Bangladesh charity concert in 74 and only Ringo turned up. None of them for No Nukes concert in 79. Only Paul for the Kampuchea (aka Cambodia) crisis charity concert in 79. None for CND in any year. And you think they'd turn up for some starving Africans - who always starved every year? So, is that why George and Ringo never turned up for Live Aid? And McCartney could hardly even be bothered doing it, like he couldn't care less and only played one single song?

@BeesWaxMinder

2 жыл бұрын

@@apollomemories7399 Really?! tell THAT to Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof! ONE SONG?! …You weren’t there Live Aid was not as organised an event as TV-reruns & KZread might have you believe -even Elvis C’ got to do a Beatles song & there’s honestly little comparison to Live Aid with anything up til then Some things don’t neatly fall into place historically & it’s one thing for, say, Frankie Goes to Hollywood not appearing whilst Simple Minds get to play Song after Song after Song after Song after Song and another to suppose that the likes of the Beatles are gonna say “screw you” while Macca’s gonna say “I deign to merely play One Song, maybe…” Live Aid was a once in a lifetime one-off & The nearest thing to live aid was Live8, more than ConcertForBangldesh where ‘Floyd were at levels of animosity with each other that few bands could ever imagine (I can’t imagine the Fab Four spending millions in court arguing over the sex of an inflatable pig!) Anyway… We’re splitting hairs and talking about something that never could have happened -there was no ‘Threetles’ & there has never been another John YMMV

@apollomemories7399

2 жыл бұрын

@@BeesWaxMinder Have you any idea whatsoever as to what you're talking about here? Firstly, Pink Floyd were not remotely involved in LiveAid. LiveAid was in 1985 and the only member of Pink Floyd who had any involvement was David Gilmour, who played support guitar during Bryan Ferry's set. Secondly, what you're thinking of in terms of Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof was Live 8 in 2005. You have confused LiveAid with Live 8. Good grief, you know nothing. If you can't even grasp the basic facts then don't talk about it as you only drop your trousers. Yes, one song was all Paul McCartney played. Of course, I wasn't there - did you see the type of audiences that go to these things? Wild horses couldn't drag me to be anywhere near that.

I never knew he kept playing in Hamburg after the others went back home. I wonder if those musicians he played with ever talked about that time.

God bless poor John..

He was one of a kind. Paul is a great musician but John was a genius.

@dallasbrubaker6054

2 жыл бұрын

Both were

@richalderson6069

2 жыл бұрын

Paul is definitely a genius as well, just a different kind to John, but their differences are what made them compliment each other perfectly.

@kevinfitzsimons41

2 жыл бұрын

Paul was 70% of all Beatles output. That is an established fact now. Even the best part of John’s songs were Paul’s ideas.

@basilmarasco1975

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinfitzsimons41 All hail the great McCartney, huh?

@kevinfitzsimons41

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Giesecke "SMOOTH JAZZ GUITAR" no argument there. John let go of the reins about the time of Revolver and got lazier over time. His contributions to the Let It Be album were next to nothing and he didn’t do much more on Abbey Road

I totally relate to how he felt about everything Rocklove ArtyThan ☆♡☆

Being prophetic @17:28-17:41.

@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks

2 жыл бұрын

True! That’s haunting

I’m not the only one !

rip johnny

Ultimately, a little boy was robbed of his father. That really means more than what any of us lost.

@chrishyde1216

5 ай бұрын

His teenage son was also robbed.

❤️

2:20 "She was taking care of business". Speaks volumes.

What a Guy......GOD!!!!!!

Oh it’s wonderful to be here .. listening to John without the wall flower witch

I wonder what he'd be up to now if he was still alive.

@justinhamilton8647

2 жыл бұрын

definitely mucking about on twitter and baking bread

You don't get a gold record for making bread? Probably doesn't pay quite as well either. 😆 Love John!

This might be the most human interview I've ever heard him do.

When he talks you can tell he's trying so hard to make every word every moment relevant and everything he does relevant, he thought too much of himself ,he should have just relaxed and did what he does best in life which he kept running from

Attention: The Beatles Interviews - I was confused by the date header at the top stating 1980 10 24, as this was actually as stated below in September.

RIP JL...

so nice without Yoko there piping in.

❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢

Poor John, he retired a time for not killing himself, but, after all, he found his own killer instead. His Fate was Sealed.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤

The day before John Bonham died.

I'm same with phones

Damn Mark David Chapman.

So being dead was always in his mind, I guess being an orphan is what he really couldn't overcome. Sounds also like John was an introvert that for necessity acted as an extrovert to survive as a musician..

@chrishyde1216

5 ай бұрын

He experienced a lot of death in his life, losing several people he was close to. He knew about death.

Have we lost our accents since 1980?

I’m astounded - no Yoko Ono! Yippee

In my opinion, Yoko represented a complete and total opposite of who John was. But this was a complementary opposite - like an opposing weight that stabilizes a flywheel.

No mention of May Pang

I feel very bad for Julian and Cynthia but when I listen to this I realize that the beetle John was just twent two years old when he became a star he hadn't grown up and he was being pulled by the record companies what was expected plus they where on world tours it was into the studio anyone who is being told they are the greatest thing on earth when they haven't had tome to even grow up yet you can understand even Cynthia said that she just wanted a normal married life dad coming home getting his pipe and slippers making dinner while John bonded with his son Paul told her that's not John Lennon he had known his personality better than anyone at that time and he was a bastard but as he grew older he realized the important things in Julian's life and he tried to rectify it but the damage was done and he grew up with a very strong female influence so ending up with yoko was almost ment to happen he allowed her to control every aspect of his life he knew nothing of business so I'm sure she told him that Julian would be fairly cared for and he never doubted her

Casting the first stone? No sin on your hands? ❤️ Brother John ❤️money for dope,money for rope

John 9:24

You people sre so quick to judge.You have no idea what another person goes thru in their life that may bring them to decisions thatay be wrong or right Ste you a perfect father,a perfect mother. a perfect person ? Get real.John always backed his beliefs matter the cost.He was honest and real.

Did Sean Lennon hear this? I think he should

Very lucid. Not the scattered ADHD-like John we often hear.

That's interesting, because George said John returned to Liverpool 2 days after he'd been deported. John says he stayed in Germany for two additional months with the house band. Which story is true? 🤔

@clark82

Ай бұрын

With John the truth is usually somewhere in the middle…. It was only 10 days. Paul, George and Pete were deported on the 21st of November and John returned to Liverpool and kept himself to himself before catching up with the others on the 15th of December. He says a number of time he didn’t write music or touch a guitar for 5 years, and yet there is no shortage of demos from this period…. In 1976 he even started writing a musical. Even the lost weekend, he makes zero reference to Mae Pang, and yet he was seeing her regularly up to 1978, and he phoned her from South Africa when he visited in early 1980…. And he was fully aware Yoko was seeing Sam Havadtoy during this period

Oh John why couldn't you spend some precious time with your first young son Julian?...

I think it should be 9/24 not 10/24.

Ironic...🎵

Poor Julian did nt get the attention when he was very young.John did nt have time. because of the fans and making records. Yoko taking care of business Julian was left out of his will.

@al1665

2 жыл бұрын

Yoko is one of the most hated woman on earth, no amount of money will change that.

@BadfingerBoogieBarb

2 жыл бұрын

John set up a trust fund for Sean and Julian. That’s why they weren’t in the Will. Stop spreading ignorant misinformation.

@BadfingerBoogieBarb

2 жыл бұрын

@@al1665 Apparently, you are a very hate filled individual.

@joesmith34

2 жыл бұрын

@@BadfingerBoogieBarb That's correct 250k when he reached the age of 25 for Julian. The rest of John's estate, Yoko has total control and she got everything. Would I be right in saying?

@BadfingerBoogieBarb

2 жыл бұрын

@@joesmith34 No, the trust fund was in the millions. Julian didn’t receive all of his share until he was in his 30s. Yes, Yoko inherited the rest. She was his wife and his kids were minors. Nothing unusual about it.

One disturbing part: he refers to Yoko as “mother”. She was so immersed in every aspect of his life for a very long time…….

@lucytupper69

2 жыл бұрын

She was his handler!

@thequintonflynn

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucytupper69 And manipulator. IMHO.

14 minutes in is the premise of Season 4 of Stranger Things

3:21 taking pictures of food before taking pictures of food was a thing.

John Lennon died💀 young only 40 years old? 😪

Its a shame he abandoned Julian. Says alot about his true character.

@thebeatlesinterviews7924

2 жыл бұрын

Spent time with Julian in 74 thanks to May Pang but that seems to be for one summer. 75 Lennon is back with Yoko and Julian seems to fade from view again. History repeating its self, as you'll be aware John himself was abandoned by his father.

@MIB_63

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebeatlesinterviews7924 True. But at least he tried to become a better dad with Sean. Just like he used to be a violent person who learned to be peaceful and non-violent. Lennon was no saint but we should at least give him credit for trying to become a better person later in life.

@robroberts7051

2 жыл бұрын

He was a young man who was world famous, traveling the globe and constantly making music. It is sad that he didn’t have a better relationship with Julian, but under the circumstances I doubt that others would’ve acted much differently. In later years he became a better person as far as family goes and had he lived, perhaps he and Julian would’ve established a closer bond. We’ll never know but the fact that you even made a comment like this tells me a bit about your character.

@thebeatlesinterviews7924

2 жыл бұрын

​@@MIB_63 40 years a fan, all the books, all the interviews and I arrive at the same place as yourself MIB 63. No Saint but he took steps to become a better person later on.

@tonyfederici1961

2 жыл бұрын

He said he did as he was hard on himself for not being around early in Julian’s life as he was on the road with the Beatles. However you can find hundreds of photos of John and Julian together throughout the years (even during the years he was raising Sean). He gets a bad rap, because he wanted to be better, however for every 1 picture of Paul with his son James, or for every 1 pic of Ringo with his son Zak, or for every 1 pic of George with his son Dhani, I can find 50 pics of John with his son Julian. John was just to honest when he gives an interview and because of this, he gave himself a bad reputation as he wanted to be better.

This man was there for one child but completely dismissed the other……this was a selfish man with his need to stroke his own ego more important than being a proper parent….! And since Yoko controlled this man on every level she is also to blame for not setting things right between him and Julian….!

Crap questions

@jchow5966

2 жыл бұрын

But great answers.

@imemine6494

2 жыл бұрын

@@jchow5966.. better and more interesting answers, with better questions

Well I differ about this guy he wasn't in the life of his first son and Yoko forced him to be a house father to his second son also his environment with Yoko turned his music into crap basically his final album was extremely dreadful

Terrible Father to Julian. He did everything with Sean and next to nothing with Julian. What a phony he is.

@danielosullivan3110

2 жыл бұрын

True. You must be perfect 👍

@danielosullivan3110

2 жыл бұрын

Do you often listen to John thinking ,I love this song,but he wasn't perfect?

@mauriziopalmari460

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielosullivan3110 I am with my Family.

@094340

2 жыл бұрын

You are a simpleton... you have my pity.

@ronniechilds2002

2 жыл бұрын

@@mauriziopalmari460 Your medal is at the engraver's.

What a wimp he turned into! That is, if it is the same John from the sixties!

@69birdboy

2 жыл бұрын

Woaah Jonny big bollocks has just rode into town

@johnnyhartley4330

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, taking the difficult decision to turn his back on the music business to concentrate on his private life showed a lot of strength of character, but you are too unenlightened to realise this.

@deargdoom8743

2 жыл бұрын

@@69birdboy haha! Excellent comment. I’d say Sweaty bollocks is more accurate!

@vincentthao3497

2 жыл бұрын

Not the same John ! and yes Paul McCartney died in 1966

@joesmoker3378

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of people loved all that early (pop) Beatles music, me I preferred the latter (psychedelic?) Era of their music and I really liked John's and Paul's solo music, to me John was so much more then the pop music icon of the early 60s that a lot of fans wanted him to be and I always respected his choice to raise hell and or public awareness in the ways he chose, love ya, miss ya, RIP John..imagine....