In 1981, I lived in Wash DC and taped this interview, off the radio with my cassette boom box. It was important to me, so I bought a pack of good tapes. I still got em and they sound the same. JohnYoko4Ever

@donw7571

Жыл бұрын

I did the same exact thing and still have the tapes today. It was played one year later on the anniversary of his death.

@natashka8880

Жыл бұрын

I did the same! Still have them, too! I listened to them, over and over. I think I have most of this interview memorized.

@RogerPeet

Жыл бұрын

@@natashka8880 that is so cool Great minds think alike

@bnowb

6 ай бұрын

that would make a great KZread channel

@RickM0301

2 ай бұрын

I lived in El Paso Tx in 1981, did the same thing too, still have the tapes too!!!

How happy and fresh he was. Let's remember him that way.

So sad that this was his very last interview 2 days before his death. He was so happy and hopeful for his future.

@mlucifersam

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't. He did another with RKO radio on December 8th.

@TheJayson8899

7 ай бұрын

It wasn’t the last interview

One piece of garbage took this genius away from us two days later.. I feel sad but love his voice

@patricktuorto

Жыл бұрын

First thing I thought about when I saw the date of the interview. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.

@WinkDaMan07

Жыл бұрын

@@patricktuorto Even more heartbreaking, he had one more interview on the afternoon of the 8th, where he mentions his work being done when he’s dead and buried, and hopes it’s not for a long, long time, but sadly he’d be dead within 5 or 6 hours after saying that

@brianpratts

9 ай бұрын

I feel like he wanted to make a name for himself

For the benefit of anyone who isn't American, this was recorded on December 6, 1980, not June 12, 1980.

@dougpeters1625

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Lennon was many geniuses in one person. He was as funny as the funniest comedians, he was as strong of a thinker as the best philosophers, he was as good of a speaker as the best politicians, he was as good of a songwriter as the best songwriters. Truly a unique person in history. It´s also nice to hear these 1980s interviews, he was no longer resentful and bitter. Lennon gets alot of flack for his attitude in the early 70s, but he obviously grew out of it and became much more wholesome and wise over the years. But sadly people want to focus on the 1-2 years post Beatles where the tensions were high. It´s a bit unfair.

@Lytton333

3 ай бұрын

The comment about philosophy is absurdly hyperbolic. He'd have laughed at it.

Special insight and an eye opening reminder that none of us are guranteed another moment Poignant and real. Thank you.

John was in such a good spirit, full of enthusiasm about the new album, "Double Fantasy" and talking about his history. It's so sad that he would be dead in two days. 💔 🕯

@aaronvaldes3104

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@0010Kev

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It just tears me up that the musical genius, that fabulous voice and the man who was now finally happy would be silenced forever in just over 48 hours after this interview. It's just impossible to fathom.

@vesosobot4094

Жыл бұрын

One of the most gifted and talented men in music history. I can’t shake the feeling that he was assassinated by some government.

@gns423

Жыл бұрын

@@vesosobot4094 Possibly the FBI or CIA, but I have my doubts. I just feel that whoever was behind it would have silenced his killer too. That jackass still claims he acted alone, and since he wants out, I feel he’d be squealing his ass off.

@marktait2743

6 ай бұрын

Mark chapman shot at John's back....Lennon died from 4 bullet wounds to the chest.... Dont think mark was alone

I loved John Lennon. When this terrible terrible thing that happened to him. I was serving my country in the USN . I will never forget when I had a apt in Norfolk Virginia, and next morning on my clock radio. My ship USS NIMITZ CVN-68 WAS in the shipyards at Portsmouth, VA. He will always be forever young.

I feel like a fly on a wall listening to this up, close & personal raw interview with nothing edited out, it's great!

How can you not love the man❤❤❤

I listened to this nearly every year. So truly missed. Rest In Peace John

@bollywayne14

7 ай бұрын

So do I my friend.

This marvels me and breaks my heart at unimaginable levels.

Definitely a very intelligent, eloquent, well read, articulated man. I always suspected that he really did not exploit his full potential. He could write novels, make movies, whatever.

The interviewer is one of the best. He knew his subject so well he could pivot into unanticipated subjects knowledgeably.

I remember when this was broadcast. Nice to hear just the talking and no distracting music.

Saturday morning. Filled with life. Happy. Joking. With new projects completed and on the horizon. He had 2 1/2 days left but could never know.

Thanks for the upload. Great interview.

This is a great upload, thank you so much for sharing it! I feel a little sad towards the end where John starts talking about future plans. I guess it is what it is.

@mlucifersam

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, his message to 'Kevin' who wrote into B15 is heartbreaking to hear now.

John is the most amazing person. I love his story about making bread.

@harold3165

Жыл бұрын

He was an abusive piece of garbage. At one point he screamed so loud in his son Sean's ear that he had to be taken to the hospital.

Very eerie hearing him say "There's always someone being shot" on December 6, 1980

wow I've been listening to different edits of this interview for years and years, and this is the first time I've heard the complete unedited tape! thank you so much for uploading!

Always a sharp cookie. Thank you thank you! Some if this appeared on Elliot's Lost Lennon tapes.

Thanks for uploading this without the music. Someone else uploaded the same (without music) a few years ago but its no longer on KZread so good to see someone else has done it. This version is incredibly clear & nice job on the editing. Can't sense the joins :).

This is great thank you!!💚 Was just thinking also it's refreshing to hear a real interviewer here- I'd been so use to KZread interviewers say "awesome" and "wow" as a response to a question they asked.

@LoyalOpposition

Жыл бұрын

and "um like" endlessly.. even on TV News!

One thing that's notable about this interview which is something I'd already been aware of is how fast "the 60s" aged. This interview is from 1980, just 11 years after the 60s (less when you take into account that the essential 60s culture lingered on for a few years into the early 70s), but Lennon is already talking about people accusing him of being "stuck in the 60s", as though it was a really really really long time ago. We certainly don't think of 2011 as being a totally different time than 2022 the way "the 60s" were already seen as a long bygone era in 1980. It's always struck me as odd. I get it though. The mid 60s to early 70s just looked and sounded radically different to everything before and after in a way no other decade does.

@foofookachoo1136

Жыл бұрын

RIGHT!! There u go! U most adequately explained it all!! RIGHT ON, BRO!! ✌️ Peace and Luv!! ✌️

@Heopful

Жыл бұрын

Crazy to think how different the 50s were to the 60s, and to think the 19th century was almost a primitive world yet only half a century before. It makes me feel like our civilisation is much more fragile and infantile than we think.

@TheJayson8899

7 ай бұрын

@@Heopfulit’ll reset again.

@jonncockrell3606

3 күн бұрын

Time is relative. In my experience, days go by as slow as ever. But a couple of days later you look up and years have gone by.

Funny that John's first impression was that Yoko was a con ! Right first time.

@allancerf9038

8 ай бұрын

He also made a Freudian slip I guess you'd say. He refers to her at Indica Gallery as this "weird looking," etc. Wow. Doubt Yoko appreciated that.

what a great rave...hearing so much from John and Yoko💗👩‍❤‍👨

So short a time from this interview and just 48 hours later, give or take, and Beatle John was gone. Forever Missed +++

Paul tells a different story. He says that Yoko somehow found out where he lived and knocked on his door. He turned her away and suggested she may want to contact John. This is a woman who has stated that she didn’t know who the Beatles were.

@babylemonade000

4 ай бұрын

Yep, oldest trick in the book! Sad that he fell for it but love is blind (and deaf in this case).

@Hwy-01

3 ай бұрын

Yep. And she kept on phoning his house and bombarded him with letters when he was in India.

@Canyon2023

2 ай бұрын

Yoko did what Meghan Markle did. No idea who John Lennon and Prince Harry is 😂😂

@jeremywanner4526

Ай бұрын

And camped out on his lawn like a stalker

@henrydemonfreid1985

5 күн бұрын

share your source for this info?

2:55:47 That poor boy must have been shattered.

Nice one Mark Chapman... C U Next Tuesday

Amazing how little Lennon remembers...and how much!!

John Winston Ono Lennon Is Eternal , as we all are , yah yah

I get shivers listening to John and Yoko, a mere 2 days before his murder… WE GOT ROBBED OF A GREAT HUMAN BEING, FLAWS AND ALL

He seemed more level headed and better than his early 70s interviews. He was still witty and brutally honest, but he seemed more calm and enthusiastic. It’s a shame what happened to him.

I screamed when he said he loved fawlty towers. I grew up with that show.

Lennon❤❤❤❤✌✌✌✌

& the "fantastic" jam that she spoke of during the Let it be sessions, is now out there for all to witness. 🥵

1:17:26 omg - talks about his Christmas song and says "someones always getting shot" around Christmas and that's what the song's about, wow!

I recorded this at the time and listened to the all the time in the 80's love john

Yoko turned up at Paul's house in 1967 and asked him for a manuscript for John Cage's birthday. Paul said he couldn't help but his friend John could. Yoko claims that she had never heard of John or The Beatles when she met him. No, of course not.

@johnstivaly1170

Жыл бұрын

What. Where did you get that information?

@thefonzkiss

Жыл бұрын

@@johnstivaly1170 it’s well known.

@AI_Image_Master

Жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss Yet they just talked about meeting each other in Nov 1966 on this tape.

@kellydee2780

Жыл бұрын

Yes,it's known she tried it on Paul first,he didn't bite,so onto John.

@roseblake5803

Жыл бұрын

So basically Paul threw John under the bus. Very interesting considering what Paul was up to.

I got this on tape somewhere i remember recording it on my technics stereo system

@dougpeters1625

2 ай бұрын

Literally the same here!

Great interview! BBC put this interview out on 2 cassette tapes. I listened to these tapes over and over. One of the things I found very interesting was the difference between "Mother"'s intro and "Starting Over"'s intro. The penny dropped when I heard his explanation. BTW, during the break, did they add the conversation which took place when they were asked to play at Live in Toronto??

He sounds more British here than in any other interview in 1980…possibly because he was being interviewed by a British DJ?

John✌️🙏❤️

At 2:39:42 Lennon praises British band Madness and does a take on the intro to their “One Step Beyond”!

@frankie3041

7 ай бұрын

And then at 2:41:07 Lennon mentions a tape someone sent him “two years” earlier with bands including Madness on it.

There’s No way yoko didn’t know who Lennon was, not buying that.

@Nina5144

7 ай бұрын

Heather Mills tried the same trick when she met Paul . She’d ’never heard of the Beatles’. Yeah right

Such a massive great goldmine! AND he’s CLEARLY not recentful to George! Wow never heard that bit before of him wanting George in his band for the 1981 canadian gig! (1:20 ish)

10:50 - when I hear stories about this, I often wonder what the person concerned thinks about it nowadays! I mean, where is this Austrian woman today & does she even know she was a part of this and what it was all about in the end?

I got this interview

This makes me sad. Last words. He had no idea what was coming. And he had lax Security. Still one of the worst days ever along with 9/11.

Oh John.. that voice, that mind and heart ❤

@user-wj6dt5bq3w

20 күн бұрын

What heart? He was horrible to his first son.

He looks happy and talkative and yoko.

Keep playing those mind games forever john

I love this and hate it at the same time. Love John…so much.

Since the programe was first broadcast by the BBC in December 1980, they have refused to repeat it without any explanation why.

@paulb40

7 ай бұрын

BBC did do repeat broadcasts First repeat was in December 1981

The Wishing Bell, how sweet....now in 2023 Yoko has made a cyber Wishing Tree..its beautiful..find it..

I don't mean to play into the Yoko hate bandwagon but it's really frustrating that she keeps answering for John (and a lot of what she says is quickly contradicted by John himself).

John says Elvis died in the army, and he adds that that was when they castrated him. The rest of it, he says, was a living death. If that was the case, didn't Yoko do to John what the army had done to Elvis?

@jonncockrell3606

3 күн бұрын

He cleaned up, raised his kid, took five years off from the music business. Yoko may have been controlling but Lennon needed someone to straighten him up or he might have died years earlier.

@samnous2002

2 күн бұрын

@@jonncockrell3606 He was still castrated by Yoko. Lennon 1963 to 1967 is very different from Lennon 1968 to Lennon 1980.

does anyone have a timecode where he talks about Julian?

great comments guys i tapped it off the radio in england. mc was paid by some1

@garyharrell8976

Жыл бұрын

I can due without yoko being there- just john- what did he see in her- he made her. Long live john.

@nobby21165

Жыл бұрын

FBI job. MK Ultra patsy

@henrydemonfreid1985

5 күн бұрын

@@nobby21165 Have you read the FBI Lennon files book? They literally had nothing on him - it's mental.

The gall of the yoko haters in the comments section who don’t think John would abhor them more in 2024 than he would have in 1980

2:49:20 John could never of thought of what was going to happen in the next 48 hours 😪😪

really you know, really you know, really you know

“I’ll give you an imaginary 5 shillings and you give me an imaginary nail” The best!

1:17:30 John says "There's always someone being shot" , incredible while MDC was actually waiting at the Dakota (during this interview) just wild

@INTERNETVID

2 ай бұрын

What's even more wild is that people still believe the official narrative. Spend five minutes by googling 'John Lennon Jose Perdomo' to discover who was waiting at the Dakota along with MDC and who did the actual shooting.

12:19 lol John sounds like Serge from Philly (Craig Ferguson reference)

It's weird now knowing that they wanted a divorce but yoko didn't want to give up John's money. He should have left yoko for May.

Chapman .... why you did that ?? 😓😓😓😓😓

When Yoko talks, my mind shuts down.

Yoko the ultimate self publicist

@allancerf9038

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. It's so weird that she had this strange gig from say '68 until Lennon's death of being interrupter in chief. One could say oh that's male chauvanism, but really not. She was a much lesser artist, obviously.

@Nina5144

7 ай бұрын

Yes, unknown to anyone but the strange art world (define ‘art’!) and made a beeline for John $$$$$$$$$$$

@clark82

Ай бұрын

There is a number of times in this she interrupts with what she things is a whitty intellectual comment, which with gets no reaction (but you can feel John giving her daggers) or the interviewer asks her to expand on it and she freezes, and John steps on to bring the interview back on to him

Was there not a single other picture of them for this interview? Yoko looks like an old granny there.

I'm glad he was able to have such a close relationship but I think he should've used her inspiration as a muse rather than putting her on the mic/stage. The biggest fans go along politely out of respect and the other biggest fans scream about her; I get it but as far as musical talent.. GZ Pete man

Два дня 8 декабря у меня был день рождения 18 лет

Always that woman.....

P-SSY WIPED IS A MAJOR UNDERSTATEMENT....

@SpeccyHorace

Ай бұрын

Good hygiene isn't to be mocked.

John Winston Ono Lennon nacido como John Winston Lennon (Liverpool, 09 de octubre de 1940-Nueva York, 08 de diciembre de 1980) 84 AÑOS 40 AÑOS 44 AÑOS 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

2:47:46 💔

John without Yoko had been better, it became a little strange with her

is that bowie mid way through?

Sorry mate, but why you put "SPANISH" in the tittle?? I'm spanish and i thought it will be Spanish sub. haha!

Isn't Yoko you on her way out now?

Does no one notice the air of menace The part where they are talking about a shooting him

If only yoko's interventions were to be culled out, it would be make it a hell lot more enjoyable to listen to.

Was it meant to be a christmas special? Very sad.

@thebeatlesinterviews7924

Жыл бұрын

No coinciding with the original interview date.

37:18 - Police story

Is Derek Taylor there? And who was chatting around 1hr. 20 mins

@jessejonker4888

Жыл бұрын

Old Beatles road manager, that little section was from a way earlier interview/audio clip were they were talking about going to Canada (Toronto) to the Rock' N Roll Revival Festival in 1969 and they talked about getting a group together for the performance (thats why they talked about Derek Taylor). I guess thats why there is such a low audio quality to that tape.

@p0llenp0ny

Жыл бұрын

@@jessejonker4888 Yeah not sure why that was slapped in the middle like that. It's from 11 years earlier.

When they talk about Yoko's movie "Rape"- I don't know anything about it except what they're saying and I can only think that is criminal! Not to mention mean-spirited- Yoko is very lucky she wasn't sued for everything she has, which is a lot thanks to John.

Yoko starts talking, "L", "L", "L"....

Yoko es insoportable

Is that David Bowie? 1:21:21

@Ewusia2013

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like him!

Who's the guy behind him ?

18:43

Por favor subtítulos en Español.

@escaton74

Жыл бұрын

subtitle function / automatic translation is activated

@ondinaandriani276

4 ай бұрын

Pudiste ver los subtítulos?

They say John was horrible to Julian but two days before his death and while making this interview John mentions Julian a few times in between the interview and twice at the end of the and John says he has to call Julian to let him know about this interview so he can listen to it and he also made reference to Julian telling his father John that he or his friends are buying the Dounle Fantasy record for Yoko’s Kiss kiss kiss song. John laughs and says as long as he or they buy it is all that matters ( not verbatim) but close enough. I hope Julian knows about this or has heard this. I’m sure it would make him very happy to know that his pops was thinking of him calling Julian his son two days before his death by the United States Government.

She talked to David geffen a day before John death and a Kurt cobain talked to him a day before his death hmm

48:28

Why is Yoko chiming about?

John sounded so like an Irishman.

@Nina5144

7 ай бұрын

He sounded like the Liverpudlian he is. Accent diluted a little as been away from the country he loved for so long, but Liverpudlian.