John tended to be guarded though less so here as he responded readily to some serious questions. When he was called a writer, he let down his guard and he really was cute and charmed
I am so incredibly infatuated by this man. Such a talented, beautiful person with a truly unique mind. Still haven't gotten over his death. There will never be another like him.
kafka - I feel the same way, He was so so special despite his many flaws. He would, for instance, have LOVED the internet and would have used it brilliantly. The interviewer Kenneth Allsop (who eventually committed suicide) was a very clever person, and he treated John with such respect, and got great answers in return.
The moment Lennon goes to say the word 'crap' but changes to 'rubbish' is the moment he takes full control of the rest of the interview. His honesty and frankness beats all.
JOHN LENNON was an absolute original! He is unique, and goes aganst everything one thinks is the proper road to success. He has no proper musical,formal or comediac education. Yet he's a song writer, inteligent, and very funny; A Working Class Hero!
I love how John like the other Beatles at the time had a general sense of irreverence and natural humor. Everything about them was classnessness that was about their class. They made working class in britian chic and trendy and the whole lack of pretentious crapola made them so highly timeless and endearing.
Second Coming Of Bast i mean.. he is only a beatle cuz his writing was good, and had some effect on millions of people, and no matter how against that you are, you cannot deny that is a fact.. if you deny it, then frankly your just plain stupid
Whats so great about this interview was that John was not dumb enough to take this book writing stuff seriously. He knew the publishing establishment looked down on Pop singers writing books. He quietly waited a few years for the public to catch up with him.
It's 2017 and it's still not acceptable to call John Lennon a genius but at some point people might want to consider it because he really had a unique mind compared to everyone around him at the time. The guy has been dead for almost forty years and no one like him has showed up yet.
Can someone explain to me how someone could change in appearance so drastically in two years like John did? He's so beautiful either way. But John looked so cute and healthy here. It's like his whole face changed and his nose got longer and pointier... Did he break his nose or something? I'm just confused because comparing 1965 John to 1967 John they look like two totally different people.
maria de vries I didn't say that you 'talk shit'; and I didn't say that you were 'speculating'. You asked a question, I answered it. Why did you ask the question if you are so sure you know the answer? Strange. By the way, I am 68, and was 13 when Love Me Do was released. So not only was I a fan, but later I worked in the record industry and spent time in the Apple offices in Savile Row (as well as recording downstairs in the studio). So, I say it again - John thought himself fat in 1965, so did something about it. The drug addiction (heroin) came later; and later still the macrobiotics. If you ask a question, it's rude to be rude to people who politely answer you.
People with hooked nose are said to be very hard-headed and rebellious. They are the types of people who don't like to conform with the norm. John Lennon had this type of nose, which could explain his rebellious personality.
+maria de vries True that, I like to study face reading during spare time. Studying face reading could tell the person's character just by looking at his/her facial features.
I wonder if John was replaced. Don't hate on me. But, there's just too much evidence stating so. I mean, come on, leaving his first beautiful wife, Cynthia for Yoko ono. lol
Indeed, John was the most attractive Beatle! Paul was boyish and pretty, but he didn't have the manly charm John has. So sad for John he became a heavy drug addict...
I think he only really started being a complete asshole too everyone after he got with Yoko and he looked fine up until 1968 it's only when he started growing his hair long that he started looking bad around the time of the white album Yoko escalated his drug use and got him onto harder drugs in particular heroin. I still think he looked handsome in 1967 with the moustache and glasses and even without the moustache and glasses in 67 such as in the video for I Am the Walrus he looks fine
Yoko brainwashed all of his good looks and intelligence. And made him look like skeleton. Damn her. He was so darn HANDSOME and witty here. ❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️
Great interview...I hadn't seen this before. The interviewer was genteel , but patronizing in that special BBC way. It must have grated when the interviewer asks John if he "wished to gain recognition in the adult world." He was 24, for God's sake! And, isn't recognition from Ella Fitzgerald adult enough?
@notThatBad411 I’ve heard some people mention that before and I can see why they think that because of their very different appearances, but to just think that the Beatles changed into a whole new person is a bit much. I mean for one do you think they could get people that look pretty much exactly like the ‘old versions’ especially George, who also happen to be incredibly musically talented? Also why would someone like Cynthia Lennon(and others who knew them) write a whole book about John and experiences through 1962-1968 and not mentioned how he was a new person. I don’t think she would make that all up. Plus the little things like how the ‘old John’ thought of the Strawberry Fields melody supposedly before he changed- ua-cam.com/video/tcoaOXNK4ME/v-deo.html I looked up some of your videos (and watched a clip about John Halliday), and I still don’t seem to think that anything like that happened. Let me know if you have anymore proof, but for now I’m sure they were the same people as they always have been.
@notThatBad411 I watched this video ua-cam.com/video/CF-iVMa5oZ4/v-deo.html Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see a correlation at all. None of them have the same eyebrows (especially George he had noticeable dark eyebrows unlike this guy, Terry) and John’s thick eyebrows aren’t there as well. Julian looks pretty much exactly like John(especially) and Cynthia’s son. There are report cards of John’s that say his exact name and show his grades and teacher comments from before he was a Beatle. John and Cynthia wrote personal letters to each other when they were younger saying, obviously, their real names(didn’t have to be stage names because they were personal). Aunt Mimi talks about John now and so did John in the later years, and she was, based on real pictures, his Aunt who always took care of him. Also they did all start taking drugs during that time and that’s probably why they began looking older(and all grew beards). The new music style came with the era. But I have a real question for you- If they are duplicates that look and sound almost exactly alike, then how did people find these incredible copies with the same talent, same looks, same voice and everything. Sounds coincidental does it?
How he got away with the use of erection in black n white English public broadcasting is beyond me, but it's Lennon and his cheekiness that gets him thru
Right, but you're talking about a time in England when Day in the Life was banned from radio because of it's "implied use" of drugs. If a double meaning could be derived by the English censors it was off limits.
This is so charming, Kenneth Alsop (I think) was the interviewer, he sadly eventually committed suicide. It;s so nice for John to be asked decent questions respectfully, and he answered them properly too - very rare in those days. His last answer about not writing prose and poetry because he was busy writing songs is very interesting - soon afterwards somebody - Pete Shotton his childhood friend said it was him - suggested he brought his literary skills into his songs - and then came Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky, I am the Walrus and so many others.
Yes I always liked Allsop, and I think he treated John fairly and warmly here - not snooty, as someone else has said. He became one of Britain's first real environmentalists, and the frustrations of not being able to convince those in power of the serious environmental problems facing us, combined with the chronic pain of having a leg amputated during WWII, led to his tragic suicide aged 53. A good man. RIP.
@@ysgol3 You're welcome. He was certainly a more cultured and caring man than many of his peers. I plan to read this aptly-titled book about him: Keeping the Barbarians at Bay: The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer, by David Wilkinson
@@morganfjp After your comment, I've just bought one of Kenneth's books on ebay, so thank you! There's also a ridiculously brief clip of a very rare interview with Jim Clark here o UA-cam. Given Kenneth's wonderful technique, I'd love to se it all.
You can feel the undercurrent of being patronised all through this. It's quite shocking to see today. But the fact they were working class and they were pop/rock stars made the establishment's default reaction to every bloody thing they did this sneery askance look (not saying they weren't met with a lot of love also - but these establishment interviewers give themselves away every time). No wonder John says "I hope we passed the audition" - it's like their entire careers they were being talked down to and interrogated like what they were doing wasn't REALLY superb and revolutionary. I guess you have to forgive people at the time to an extent, like we don't recognise greatness in our own times often. And the Beatles changed how people reacted to working class artists, all to the good. But the upper class/lower class stuff in so many of these interviews is so dispiriting because this was society imposing doubt on them just because of their poor upbringing. A peasant wrote a book, how quaint. 3:31 "Other writers" waaaanker.
@notThatBad411 No, the Beatles were all killed in a fishing trip off the Florida coast in 1964. They were replaced at that point - they died eating out-of-date crab sandwiches on the boat. Epstein was present on the trip and had the captain, Wade Farantelli (who has recently started telling his story on youtube - check his videos), throw the bodies overboard. Epstein survived because he'd brought his own packed lunch of cheese and tomato sandwiches, made at the hotel used by the Beatles and their entourage. Once ashore, Epstein phoned EMI, who immediately scoured the Liverpool clubs for replacements to be sent to the US to continue the US tour. Two days later, at the end of a grueling search (imagine trying to find 4 men who looked like, wrote songs like, and sang and played like the Beatles!! ),EMI called Epstein and announced that the replacements, Jim Bodley ('Ringo'), Craig Ferris ( 'George'), Ian Shufflebottom ('John') and Ridley Featherstone ('Paul') had been found and were on a plane to the US. One police officer who helped shuttle the new band to Epstein's hotel has also started speaking out: please check out the website of Ned Koschalsky, who now lives in fear of his life. You literally won't believe what he has to say. The world really should WAKE UP and listen.
@notThatBad411 No, they died in '64, you need to wake up and face the truth that the Beatles you loved in 1965 were imposters. But it's not just them, of course. Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was replaced by an early animatronic robot after he left to teach graphic design at Stoke Polytechnic.
"this sneery askance look". With respect, I think you may have come down with a bad case of Leftism. There was no such look. Some seem to get up in the morning sniffing for signs of oppression and classism. The interviewer was polite, respectful and asked intelligent questions, given the nonsesnical sophomoric word play content of the book, and given the interviewer was aware of Lennon's intelligence. "...it's like their entire careers they were being talked down to and interrogated like what they were doing wasn't REALLY superb and revolutionary" >> No, he said it because it was funny, a juxtaposition of the incongruous given the fawning sycophancy poured on them for years. 'butterfly world of pop', 'young man' and 'adult'' I found the use of those interesting, implying that in the mid 60s, 'pop' music, that is, relatively technically undemanding (basically strumming chords - see it at its lowest point in Punk) was a 'young man's' pursuit, not of the adult (grown up, responsible, technically demanding) realm by middle and upper echelons of cultural and music elites. That would change somewhat in later years. To some, it morphed into sycophancy, from which Western society is still somewhat intellectually disabled. Lennon found 'butterfly world of pop' patronising, but laughed (exhibiting emotional maturity sadly absent in many today) rather than stomping out in a rage (as some would do today) understanding that he knew the British cultural values from whence it came. After all, he was a product of the same British umbrella culture as the interviewer. I know Lennon's father was absent for great periods in his life. Nevertheless, using nonsensical wordplay was a trait exhibited by his father, But as far as I know, Lennon never spoke about that as an influence.
@@penfro This comment was 3 years ago so I’ll have to have a re-watch of the vid and re-read because I can’t even remember what I was blabbing off about here.
From this good looking lad , Yoko turned him into long haired bearded hippy in Ballad of John and Yoko . Now that's driving power of persuasion at its best . And they say Asians can not drive properly ,eh .
A LOT of people turned full-on hippy in the late '60s. And did you really expect John to be the exact same person in his late 20s as he was when he was in his early/mid 20s? People change and mature as they get older. It's a part of life.
Take a picture of yourself in your late teens, then role forward a few years and see for yourself. Its called either getting older, getting fatter, or getting thinner, or getting balder......its life, get one
qqfinc - Not that most of the sycophants on here would know who Stanley was. My Mother was told when they first broke through nationally what Lennon was like by a cleaner who worked in Liverpool art college & saw how he behaved towards Cynthia
He said in an interview from 1980 that he did silly things and stupid voices in interviews and on stage because he was nervous and scared of what people thought of him. By 65’ he was depressed and he got an eating disorder, then his diet just got worse after, he said “I was on a diet of 30 cups of coffee a day and an assortment of drugs..” it only got worse with yoko after she got him on heroin. He was EXTREMELY paranoid he once said “I never call anyone. Nobody has ever got a call from me that wasn’t close family. -It was always you call me, or I’m not coming.” It was because he was scared people were listening to his phones. He also said he thought people had cameras in his house and that people were following him all the time. He was like that his whole life not just after yoko (which is what most people believe). He was also extremely jealous. Cynthia once said that he hit her just because she was talking to another guy.. He was always an extremely open and honest person which was amazing, but it also got him killed.
I could honestly listen to him talk all day.
You and me both! Him and Jim Morrison had the best voices on the planet!
Dalia Ruiz-Holt Bitch what would you even bring to the table
Dalia Ruiz-Holt haha me too
lenin ruiz who cares about your table
lenin ruiz huh?
3:40 "other writers, good" his voice sounds so cute here, he was so happy to be called a writer :-) Love you John!
It’s really cute
John tended to be guarded though less so here as he responded readily to some serious questions. When he was called a writer, he let down his guard and he really was cute and charmed
Aw I love it❤
"It seemed like a novel but it turned out to be six pages....." Unbelievable charm!!!
I am so incredibly infatuated by this man. Such a talented, beautiful person with a truly unique mind. Still haven't gotten over his death. There will never be another like him.
Emma there will never be another like you, either.
kafka - I feel the same way, He was so so special despite his many flaws.
He would, for instance, have LOVED the internet and would have used it brilliantly.
The interviewer Kenneth Allsop (who eventually committed suicide) was a very clever person, and he treated John with such respect, and got great answers in return.
Think it's because he was totally himself, Kurt Cobain had much the same impact.
Ditto KatfkaDecaf~ Your words could be my own and certainly your feelings expressed here , mirror exactly my own .
A man who rejected and abandoned his child?? we hope so.
The moment Lennon goes to say the word 'crap' but changes to 'rubbish' is the moment he takes full control of the rest of the interview. His honesty and frankness beats all.
JOHN LENNON was an absolute original! He is unique, and goes aganst everything one thinks is the proper road to success. He has no proper musical,formal or comediac education. Yet he's a song writer, inteligent, and very funny; A Working Class Hero!
John is the best pop artist ever..BY FAR
lejoe48 i agree
John is the greatest rock star of all time not a pop artist.
Rock*
@@johnnymoondogs1816 He was a pop artist also.
up grade, to the most influential person in modern history
I love how John like the other Beatles at the time had a general sense of irreverence and natural humor. Everything about them was classnessness that was about their class. They made working class in britian chic and trendy and the whole lack of pretentious crapola made them so highly timeless and endearing.
“I could listen to him for hours”
Me too. Very relaxing. It's like he's telling me a story.
How did John Lennon and Paul McCartney end up living in the same town at the same time joining the same band? Talk about crazy odds.
By being born n our city liverpool 👍 simple really
@@BueyBuey-rv8cx Even then. The stars aligned.
What
@@autry33 They did. ✨ 💫 ✨
God
John Lennon was great
Aw Johnny seems so nervous here..no worries babe! We’ve always loved you and always will! 💕
He's "so nervous here" because he knows his "writing" is garbage, and what he sells will only be because he's a fucking Beatle.
Second Coming Of Bast i mean.. he is only a beatle cuz his writing was good, and had some effect on millions of people, and no matter how against that you are, you cannot deny that is a fact.. if you deny it, then frankly your just plain stupid
@@secondcomingofbast9908 and what have you given the world? writing negative comments on UA-cam.
Doesn't seem remotely nervous
@@techtipsuk Sorry to disrupt your little worship service. I just call it like I see it, chump.
He is so straightforward, honest, witty and funny all at once! I could listen to him talk forever!
I had his book in my hands and I read along with him :)
Lucky!
Where did you bought them? : D
@@raizzaignacio660 AbeBooks I think. You can get it for pretty cheap online!
I love this man so much it makes me sad
Me too. I will never get over him being murdered.
I could listen to him talk 24/7. Also he looks adorable he’s my favorite beatle😭🥰 (3:40 you’re welcome)
He’s so intelligent
0:07 'back into Powell', that was his wife Cynthia's maiden name ❤
He seems so nervous here 1:57
I suppose he was much more comfortable when he was around the rest of the band
I actually think its because he might've felt quick shame for making a slight towards the idea of being a beat poet
i think he seems like MK ultra glitche here... google it, there are many videos of celebrities messed up
He was purposely doing that for effect, being witty which was one of his fortes.
such charm
He exuded an easy confidence which came across as the lovable scamp.
Why is he always so sweet and cute??? I fall in love with him!!!!
Somehow never saw this before. Terrific stuff. "Some American who shall remain nameless, who's called Michael Brown ..."
It's ancient
He was such beautiful ☺️ his smile ❤️ he was just the best
Whats so great about this interview was that John was not dumb enough to take this book writing stuff seriously. He knew the publishing establishment looked down on Pop singers writing books. He quietly waited a few years for the public to catch up with him.
It's 2017 and it's still not acceptable to call John Lennon a genius but at some point people might want to consider it because he really had a unique mind compared to everyone around him at the time. The guy has been dead for almost forty years and no one like him has showed up yet.
He had an IQ of 150+. He was 20 above genius level. So yes he absolutely was a genius.
I think that as time goes on, it will just be a fact accepted by all that John Lennon was a genius.
1. who cares about "acceptable"?
2. he WAS a genius.
He was definitely a genius. He was also an asshole.
@@secondcomingofbast9908 he maybe an asshole but he's just a human. no one is perfect and angelic you hypocrite
Such an incredibly fluid mind.
He was very sharp mentally.
If not he was a beatle,
A poet he must have been,
Because he is the greatest cleverest fuckin guy,
My ears and eyes have ever heard and seen
Can someone explain to me how someone could change in appearance so drastically in two years like John did? He's so beautiful either way. But John looked so cute and healthy here. It's like his whole face changed and his nose got longer and pointier... Did he break his nose or something? I'm just confused because comparing 1965 John to 1967 John they look like two totally different people.
maria de vries I didn't say that you 'talk shit'; and I didn't say that you were 'speculating'. You asked a question, I answered it. Why did you ask the question if you are so sure you know the answer? Strange. By the way, I am 68, and was 13 when Love Me Do was released. So not only was I a fan, but later I worked in the record industry and spent time in the Apple offices in Savile Row (as well as recording downstairs in the studio). So, I say it again - John thought himself fat in 1965, so did something about it. The drug addiction (heroin) came later; and later still the macrobiotics. If you ask a question, it's rude to be rude to people who politely answer you.
People with hooked nose are said to be very hard-headed and rebellious. They are the types of people who don't like to conform with the norm. John Lennon had this type of nose, which could explain his rebellious personality.
+maria de vries
True that, I like to study face reading during spare time. Studying face reading could tell the person's character just by looking at his/her facial features.
Drugs
I wonder if John was replaced. Don't hate on me. But, there's just too much evidence stating so. I mean, come on, leaving his first beautiful wife, Cynthia for Yoko ono. lol
George Harrison was right when he said John put the edge into The Beatles. He was tough but he was soft. A complicated man.
Considering how blind he was w/o his glasses, I'm impressed he could read his work.
alonenjersey I think he wears contacts here
He was short sighted, reading a book much easier than seeing someone six feet away clearly
@@ma_ky He didn't wear contacts. When you're near-sighted, you can see things up close, just not far away. That's why John could read the book here.
2:50-2:53 ....... can we just.
C U T E!!! Isn’t it?!!!!
This is brilliant.
Grande John Lennon you are the best. ✌👍😊😊😊
Well whadya know - I watched this on TV when I was 10, and found it here today!!
I love him too, never a dull moment.
John was very handsome before the drugs started taking their toll around '66 and he completely changed as a person.
Indeed, John was the most attractive Beatle! Paul was boyish and pretty, but he didn't have the manly charm John has. So sad for John he became a heavy drug addict...
Drugs and Yoko ruined John
I think he only really started being a complete asshole too everyone after he got with Yoko and he looked fine up until 1968 it's only when he started growing his hair long that he started looking bad around the time of the white album Yoko escalated his drug use and got him onto harder drugs in particular heroin. I still think he looked handsome in 1967 with the moustache and glasses and even without the moustache and glasses in 67 such as in the video for I Am the Walrus he looks fine
He looked pretty good in the late 60’s and early 70’s
Yoko brainwashed all of his good looks and intelligence. And made him look like skeleton. Damn her. He was so darn HANDSOME and witty here. ❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️
He would have been 76 today...Oct.9, 2016...what a waste!!!
Jim Cushman not a waste because he did some unforgettable things
John will always be my favourite beatle.
Oool he is so sweet
Thank you! What a crack up. Interviewer seems like a legend too.
He's honest.
John was appearing very serious, which was unusual for him during the early stages of his new found fame and fortune....
RIGHT??!!!
Great interview...I hadn't seen this before. The interviewer was genteel , but patronizing in that special BBC way. It must have grated when the interviewer asks John if he "wished to gain recognition in the adult world." He was 24, for God's sake! And, isn't recognition from Ella Fitzgerald adult enough?
xD XD XD XD we all miss you john
i really want this book
Dalorri Esther same as..I think u can buy it on amazon
Olivia Kelly thanks,I'll check that out..hopefully its still there.
Dalorri Esther , he had two
A Spaniard in the works, and in his own write , I believe. I have them both.
It’s weird to think we assume they’re in black and white but in reality it’s perfect colour and 4k, hard to imagine though nonetheless
Look at the hair godammit
John said that the interviewer inspired him to write in my life
What? Can I see the website or source for that? If so cool.
@notThatBad411 I’ve heard some people mention that before and I can see why they think that because of their very different appearances, but to just think that the Beatles changed into a whole new person is a bit much. I mean for one do you think they could get people that look pretty much exactly like the ‘old versions’ especially George, who also happen to be incredibly musically talented? Also why would someone like Cynthia Lennon(and others who knew them) write a whole book about John and experiences through 1962-1968 and not mentioned how he was a new person. I don’t think she would make that all up.
Plus the little things like how the ‘old John’ thought of the Strawberry Fields melody supposedly before he changed- ua-cam.com/video/tcoaOXNK4ME/v-deo.html
I looked up some of your videos (and watched a clip about John Halliday), and I still don’t seem to think that anything like that happened.
Let me know if you have anymore proof, but for now I’m sure they were the same people as they always have been.
@notThatBad411
I watched this video ua-cam.com/video/CF-iVMa5oZ4/v-deo.html
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see a correlation at all. None of them have the same eyebrows (especially George he had noticeable dark eyebrows unlike this guy, Terry) and John’s thick eyebrows aren’t there as well.
Julian looks pretty much exactly like John(especially) and Cynthia’s son. There are report cards of John’s that say his exact name and show his grades and teacher comments from before he was a Beatle. John and Cynthia wrote personal letters to each other when they were younger saying, obviously, their real names(didn’t have to be stage names because they were personal). Aunt Mimi talks about John now and so did John in the later years, and she was, based on real pictures, his Aunt who always took care of him.
Also they did all start taking drugs during that time and that’s probably why they began looking older(and all grew beards). The new music style came with the era.
But I have a real question for you- If they are duplicates that look and sound almost exactly alike, then how did people find these incredible copies with the same talent, same looks, same voice and everything. Sounds coincidental does it?
This is such a TREAT!!!!
How he got away with the use of erection in black n white English public broadcasting is beyond me, but it's Lennon and his cheekiness that gets him thru
Because erection does not only mean an erection of the penis, so it’s not a dirty word per se
Right, but you're talking about a time in England when Day in the Life was banned from radio because of it's "implied use" of drugs. If a double meaning could be derived by the English censors it was off limits.
@@johnp515 100%.
@@johnp515 That was my thinking on it too!!
This is so charming, Kenneth Alsop (I think) was the interviewer, he sadly eventually committed suicide.
It;s so nice for John to be asked decent questions respectfully, and he answered them properly too - very rare in those days.
His last answer about not writing prose and poetry because he was busy writing songs is very interesting - soon afterwards somebody - Pete Shotton his childhood friend said it was him - suggested he brought his literary skills into his songs - and then came Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky, I am the Walrus and so many others.
Yes I always liked Allsop, and I think he treated John fairly and warmly here - not snooty, as someone else has said. He became one of Britain's first real environmentalists, and the frustrations of not being able to convince those in power of the serious environmental problems facing us, combined with the chronic pain of having a leg amputated during WWII, led to his tragic suicide aged 53. A good man. RIP.
@@morganfjp Thank you - I didn't know those things about Kenneth.
@@ysgol3 You're welcome. He was certainly a more cultured and caring man than many of his peers. I plan to read this aptly-titled book about him:
Keeping the Barbarians at Bay: The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer, by David Wilkinson
@@morganfjp Thank you - I'll read it too.
@@morganfjp After your comment, I've just bought one of Kenneth's books on ebay, so thank you!
There's also a ridiculously brief clip of a very rare interview with Jim Clark here o UA-cam. Given Kenneth's wonderful technique, I'd love to se it all.
Johnson Lemon of the prop gloop the Bleatles was a goodly writer of rhyming wordly's.
So fucking hot!
You can feel the undercurrent of being patronised all through this. It's quite shocking to see today. But the fact they were working class and they were pop/rock stars made the establishment's default reaction to every bloody thing they did this sneery askance look (not saying they weren't met with a lot of love also - but these establishment interviewers give themselves away every time).
No wonder John says "I hope we passed the audition" - it's like their entire careers they were being talked down to and interrogated like what they were doing wasn't REALLY superb and revolutionary. I guess you have to forgive people at the time to an extent, like we don't recognise greatness in our own times often. And the Beatles changed how people reacted to working class artists, all to the good. But the upper class/lower class stuff in so many of these interviews is so dispiriting because this was society imposing doubt on them just because of their poor upbringing. A peasant wrote a book, how quaint. 3:31 "Other writers" waaaanker.
@notThatBad411 No, the Beatles were all killed in a fishing trip off the Florida coast in 1964. They were replaced at that point - they died eating out-of-date crab sandwiches on the boat. Epstein was present on the trip and had the captain, Wade Farantelli (who has recently started telling his story on youtube - check his videos), throw the bodies overboard. Epstein survived because he'd brought his own packed lunch of cheese and tomato sandwiches, made at the hotel used by the Beatles and their entourage. Once ashore, Epstein phoned EMI, who immediately scoured the Liverpool clubs for replacements to be sent to the US to continue the US tour. Two days later, at the end of a grueling search (imagine trying to find 4 men who looked like, wrote songs like, and sang and played like the Beatles!! ),EMI called Epstein and announced that the replacements, Jim Bodley ('Ringo'), Craig Ferris ( 'George'), Ian Shufflebottom ('John') and Ridley Featherstone ('Paul') had been found and were on a plane to the US. One police officer who helped shuttle the new band to Epstein's hotel has also started speaking out: please check out the website of Ned Koschalsky, who now lives in fear of his life. You literally won't believe what he has to say. The world really should WAKE UP and listen.
@notThatBad411 No, they died in '64, you need to wake up and face the truth that the Beatles you loved in 1965 were imposters. But it's not just them, of course. Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was replaced by an early animatronic robot after he left to teach graphic design at Stoke Polytechnic.
"this sneery askance look". With respect, I think you may have come down with a bad case of Leftism. There was no such look. Some seem to get up in the morning sniffing for signs of oppression and classism. The interviewer was polite, respectful and asked intelligent questions, given the nonsesnical sophomoric word play content of the book, and given the interviewer was aware of Lennon's intelligence.
"...it's like their entire careers they were being talked down to and interrogated like what they were doing wasn't REALLY superb and revolutionary"
>> No, he said it because it was funny, a juxtaposition of the incongruous given the fawning sycophancy poured on them for years.
'butterfly world of pop', 'young man' and 'adult''
I found the use of those interesting, implying that in the mid 60s, 'pop' music, that is, relatively technically undemanding (basically strumming chords - see it at its lowest point in Punk) was a 'young man's' pursuit, not of the adult (grown up, responsible, technically demanding) realm by middle and upper echelons of cultural and music elites. That would change somewhat in later years. To some, it morphed into sycophancy, from which Western society is still somewhat intellectually disabled. Lennon found 'butterfly world of pop' patronising, but laughed (exhibiting emotional maturity sadly absent in many today) rather than stomping out in a rage (as some would do today) understanding that he knew the British cultural values from whence it came. After all, he was a product of the same British umbrella culture as the interviewer.
I know Lennon's father was absent for great periods in his life. Nevertheless, using nonsensical wordplay was a trait exhibited by his father, But as far as I know, Lennon never spoke about that as an influence.
@@penfro This comment was 3 years ago so I’ll have to have a re-watch of the vid and re-read because I can’t even remember what I was blabbing off about here.
What did he say, who cares. English accent and cute.
I miss this John. I've never met him, though.
2:28 tickled me too
He always tried to be funny from time to time when speaking even at the end saying "thank you" in such funny way
lennon spazzin off athe god olympiykkks
"won the general erection". LOL! How did he say that with a straight face?
Tem como traduzir para o PORTUGUÊS ?
John 2
Hmm 🤔
3:28 I swear I see Johnny Rotten's face here
he s doing a Stanley Unwin
From this good looking lad , Yoko turned him into long haired bearded hippy in Ballad of John and Yoko . Now that's driving power of persuasion at its best . And they say Asians can not drive properly ,eh .
I had a similiar hair to John's one. Unfortunately I lost a lot.
3:03
y los subtitulos
Subtitles?
Who else believes this isn't the same John who turned full-on hippy in the late '60s.?
Sorry. No one else is that stupid.
A LOT of people turned full-on hippy in the late '60s. And did you really expect John to be the exact same person in his late 20s as he was when he was in his early/mid 20s? People change and mature as they get older. It's a part of life.
Anglo-Saxophone Exactly. 😁
Take a picture of yourself in your late teens, then role forward a few years and see for yourself. Its called either getting older, getting fatter, or getting thinner, or getting balder......its life, get one
😂😂
1:25 is that a yo i hear
I think it's called LSD
Peak mop top
Would it have been too much to ask him to give his head of hair a stroke or two from a brush.
Good effort by Mr.Lennon but Stanley Unwin rules OK!!.
qqfinc - Not that most of the sycophants on here would know who Stanley was. My Mother was told when they first broke through nationally what Lennon was like by a cleaner who worked in Liverpool art college & saw how he behaved towards Cynthia
this gay guy rocks my socks off
Please Spanish.
Cómo puede leer una persona que se supone es casi miope y no usar lentes, lo más curioso con la facilidad que lo hace, estoy confundida. 😞
Usaba lentes de contacto xd, a el le molestaba usar los armazones
Los miopes vemos mal de lejos solamente. De cerca vemos muy bien.
It sounds like he said general erection not general election.
He did.
Daring Note62 he did
For what nonsense words
Why does he make the weird faces and funny voices all the time? Is this nervousness or something deeper?
He said in an interview from 1980 that he did silly things and stupid voices in interviews and on stage because he was nervous and scared of what people thought of him. By 65’ he was depressed and he got an eating disorder, then his diet just got worse after, he said “I was on a diet of 30 cups of coffee a day and an assortment of drugs..” it only got worse with yoko after she got him on heroin. He was EXTREMELY paranoid he once said “I never call anyone. Nobody has ever got a call from me that wasn’t close family. -It was always you call me, or I’m not coming.” It was because he was scared people were listening to his phones. He also said he thought people had cameras in his house and that people were following him all the time. He was like that his whole life not just after yoko (which is what most people believe). He was also extremely jealous. Cynthia once said that he hit her just because she was talking to another guy.. He was always an extremely open and honest person which was amazing, but it also got him killed.
His poetry was crap !
Yet here you are.
your comment is crap !
Wanker
Says a dickhead call Nut
Bus W@nker!