1:02:23 “And I consider that my work won’t be done until I’m dead and buried, and I hope that’s in a long, long time.” -John Lennon, December 8th, 1980.
I do think about that what if. Lennon was to massive to live. His mystic is part of his legend. No-one in music has ever done what the beatles and Lennon are and were.
I think the same thing. Also for many others, including my family. I think about it all the time. Not to worry because when Christ comes again (Judgement Time) he would raise the dead back to life.♥.
@@d.collins3819 Well he's not going want a practising Luciferian like John Lennon anywhere near his Kingdom is he, and quite right too. Lennon can burn in Hell.
Man, he seemed so chilled out in this. You can tell he really did mellow out. Really was a damn shame with what happened to him, and for the stupidest reason.
Yes, he died for literally the stupidest reason ever. The jerk who shot him did it just because he wanted to become famous, he didn't even dislike John or had anything against him as a person. What a fucking shame, imagine being shot to death when you have your whole life ahead of you just because someone wants to make the headlines
IT goes all the way back to mocking The King--Jesus-no one gets away with that-cobain mocked JESUS he stuck a shotgun in his mouth-after sticking his self with a needle-chris Cornell mocked Christianity he hung his self-you do that and see how you die--and then you pay for it forever--98 per cent of the human race is going to the lake of fire--someone-listen to Cobain sing about it-now he's there!!😮😮😮
He was ready to dominate the whole 80’s decade if John Lennon hadn’t died I feel he would’ve been impressed by the culture of the 80s like the birth of MTV and the songs that use synthesizers and gated reverb like “In The Air Tonight” and “Running Up That Hill”
He was so positive and excited about the future. It’s heartbreaking toward the end of the tape when Yoko says, “Is the car downstairs?” They we’re off to the studio and before they got in the car John signed a copy of Double Fantasy for the creep who would kill him a few hours later. Can’t go back and prevent it from happening but it’s hard not to have those thoughts.
Even more disturbing is that the creep was waiting down there at the entrance as this interview was being recorded!!! He was there pretty much the whole day!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s really spooky. That interview ended around 5pm - you hear yoko asking about the car to go to the studio. At that point they walked out and he was photographed signing the album for his assassin.
Thank you for uploading this timeless interview....surreal hearing him talk so much about life the very day it was to end...so insightful and of course, tragic and sad.
I lost my Dad a couple of months before this interview and was already depressed. Even more Gutted when I found out John Lennon had been shot dead. I never did like the 1980's and the real reason was having John taken from us in a unnecessary way. The Beatles greatest ever group in my opinion
Amen brother Sorry to hear about your dad. I lost mine in ‘95. Life is precious, learn and experience as much as you can while you’re here and take that to the next life where you will continue to evolve. Sorry to sound too New Age’y
For a son to lose a father is very painful. Since you kist youts so close to John's death, your heart must havegone out to Sean and Julian more than the rest of us.
Hi from Liverpool. Been in the place it all started the last few weeks ( The Casbah). Its getting made into a hotel, but the club where John & Paul painted the ceiling black with stars is still there, as is lots of memorabilia. Fascinating. The owner ( Pete Bests cousin) has some great stories about the lads. His dad was called Aspinall & was the Beatles roadie in the beginning & travelled with them all over the world. Anyway just to let you know that John is still missed here & his memory lives on. God bless. 👍
Definitely one of the biggest deaths of the century in terms of impact within popular culture, and yeah John himself was pretty much mythologized to an unrealistic degree as a consequence. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that it changed the course of human history or something.
@@KingdomCooperFan Agreed. Plus young people mostly under 18; don't know who he was and who he played in. There are exceptions of course. Here's s'thing about his myth...... ua-cam.com/video/ccEhmQ0M4FY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/G3AV-kPhZ2I/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/FjoIaJw_P_Q/v-deo.html&feature=share Here's a piece about corruption in the music industry. ua-cam.com/video/NBDoTihztls/v-deo.html&feature=share
I think why John Lennon was so loved by most people was how down to earth and brutally honest he was. He finally found peace at this time and it's beyond tragic what happened that night. Yoko seems actually nice in this interview as well. I have a feeling the Beatles would have reunited for Live Aid. RIP John the world misses you.
I agree! It is so fun to listen to these interviews and so interesting to see how controversial he was, and for Peace. I heard the interview by Shaun Lennon with Elton John a couple of years ago on JL's 80th year, and it was moving. Elton John said he was sure that if he hadn't of been killed, he may have won the Nobel Peace Prize and it was something I never thought of but it sure makes a lot of sense. I don't ever really like to hear anything about his murderer, and I am a True Crime buff, but that one just makes me sick, such a bid for attention, and stealing of Lennon's brightness. I also appreciate ALL the music and The Beatles and what they each evolved to. I also watched Get Back, (got me the expensive Disney subscription just for it!) and was so moved at the part where John asks the others if they heard Martin Luther King Jr's speech and he said something like "it was sheer poetry" and he speaks of how beautiful it was and says something like MLK "could be president".
I disagree. He had a terrible reputation in Liverpool. He was badly behaved; with Julian and Cynthia. Used to beat the latter. Americans are seemingly; out of touch with this aspect. Yoko controls him here; as she always did. He had a weak personality. He's very uninteresting in this interview
Well yes, but I don't think we should take ourselves too seriously, otherwise this thought can totally be depressing and haunting Just live every second, enjoy the moment, realize we are bigger than our bodies and personal history
Going back to this every once and while is nice. John in conversation, in the middle of the day, sounding good, acting cool, and talking from the heart.
The sense of ordinary life routines that John is describing in this interview undercuts just how abrupt things can change in an instant. He (along with everyone else) were not to know the horrific events that would unfold that very night....
It's so interesting to hear John Lennon talk about his life family life career Sean and Yoko and Yoko's comments. It's such a tradgety what happened later very sad. A real nice interview with them.
When he signed chapman's album double fantasy,he asked him was that all he wanted(this meant,I hope you are not here for somethink else,suspicious, when he see him again for a few seconds that night,John's thoughts came back,he must ov thought that bloke is here again, Paul gorash mentioned this in his interview, Johns instinct to think like that, John was correct and feeling vunerable, sad day that was
@@roberttalbot6397 Don't know why he didn't just get back in the limo and drive thru the gate instead- nothing normal about someone getting an autograph and then stil being there SIX hours later!l
@@damianbroderick3913 yeh,but John was very insure as a person, when he signed he said do you want anything else, he meant hope you are not up to somethink, so when he seen him again that night, he thought same thoughts about him. John liked to be open with people so that's why he walked in. It should've been limo. There and back.
He talked about it because he was obsessed with his own weight and had an eating disorder :/ If he really cared about health he wouldn't be chain smoking cigs
A shame that John didn't check up a little more on what Yoko was doing in the office. She was busy ensuring Julian was largely scrubbed out of Lennon's will - including the return of sentimental father-son letters.
“Talking to people my age. The people who survived the 60’s-who survived the war, the drugs, the politics, THE VIOLENCE ON THE STREET.” At about the 1:13 mark
They were so happy. He was so happy. Had a very healthy and calm life style (which he deserved and chose wisely to live after all the work he'd done). May you rest in peace John. Always be missed and warmly remembered. His spirit will keep embracing and inspiring us who identify with him.
What a dude! Just listened all 1 hour and 47 min of a soul leader, someone that was focusing his music and lyrics into mankind, trying to make this world a better place. They don't make them like him anymore...so it seems...John if you are listening...you are still a bright light man....
So weird to think Chapman was probably only a few hundred yards away waiting for him at the time this was recorded. So terribly sad. I think John was the happiest & most content he'd ever been at that point and that animal took all that away.
@@kazabushy I hate the murderer but have never brought into the idea that he “wanted fame”. If this was true, then why not plead “not guilty” and have the spotlight in what would have been the trial of the century?
I lost it when John was asking when was this interview going to be on because he wanted to hear this interview on the radio. He didn't know that 12 hours later he would be dead way before this interview was put on the radio.
This tape is under circulated. Hearing John so future focused is heart breaking but also inspiring. This is the first tape where Yoko is almost on equal footing and comes through as a full person, not just the woman who broke up the Beatles. My outrage and grief over both the violent death of John and then the violent attack on George that led to his relapse and his death is beyond words. It is a loss for the world that we lost them both when they had so much more life to live. "All you need is love" may sound like a simple lyric but in fact contains the answer to every single crisis on the planet. Love is all you need.
I love this. Dave Sholin was kind enough to send me a tape of the entire interview, as produced as “The Man, The Memory” in 1981…but I always wanted to hear the original uncut. This position made me smile.
You’re lucky mate 🤟🎸 Fantastic interview isn’t it!?? He’s so relaxed and clearly engaged in every question. He had no idea what he was walking into that day.
Interview ended around 5 p.m. Shot at 10:50 p.m. Pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. News announced at 11:30 p.m. local time. I heard the news on the 6 a.m. news on the BBC, which is 1 a.m. New York time. I was devastated.
You can listen to this just to hear someone who was great and in his element. His wit and humanity come out. I agree with everyone commenting on this post...if only he was here with us today. If only. If only.
"We've been together longer than the Beatles were." Sadly, Yoko is one of those people who say, "You know" all of the time, and John had to live with that, you know.
To me the most important lesson John Lennon gave us, is to believe in oneself. Do not give up your dreams, whatever they are for someone else. Never mind fear. Fear is what brought us to our current predicament.
Geraldo rivera , friend of John's , said that when john was in a room full of people he totally captivated them with his wit and intellect. He definitely would have been a force in the world for unjust causes.
John was genius. He once said , The Beatles was just a band, that's all. We're just human. Since his 1980 interview the planet hasn't evolved. Dissolving in 2021. 118:00 and 130:00 are my favourite parts.
keep in mind that Yoko was having affairs and had recently visited Sam Green's family home and tried to get him to marry her. within a month she'd have Havadtoy moved in.
While he was doing this interview there was a wacko walking around near the Dakota with the Catcher in the Rye and a hand gun The biggest loss in music history!
He was scheduled to work on a session in January for Ringo’s Stop and Smell the Roses album. They were in the middle of the Milk and Honey sessions, getting ready to put the finishing touches, and possibly start recording the next album after that. They even had a world tour planned for 1981! Everybody says The Beatles would’ve reunited at Live Aid in 1985. So sad….
What a great interview. How I wish everyone would hear John’s and Yoko’s ideas and visions. If we all collectively practiced “LOVE” the world would be a better place.
1:03:11, I don't think I ever heard John cry before. Not even tremble in his own voice with overfilled emotion. When he almost struggles to say how he didn't realize how much he needed her in his life, you can hear the overwhelming emotions of realization and love overcome him. That can't be just me, you can almost feel him most likely looking in Onos eyes after he declared that statement. Wow
From around 1:02:30 it sounds to me like he's holding in a burp or something like that, and that's why he sounds weak. Still, what he says is powerful, i don't mean to be disrespectful.
It's crazy how long it's been since John's death. He was 40 years old when he died and it's been 42 years since it happened. Paul and Ringo have spent more of their lives without John than they did with John.
I also think the same Valeria. Several groups regrouped for this event, such as Queen and Led Zeppelin. So the possibility that the Beatles had performed at Live Aid, in 1985, made perfect sense.
@@johnp515 Yes I know. It's so sad to me that fictional historically inaccurate biopics are even allowed to be made. It sickens me that Brian and Roger gave the go ahead to producers for this rubbish making Freddie look like a lazy, uncaring toad with a laughable American accent. The Queen concerts reinvented were not even remotely factually correct. Nothing was factually correct. That doesn't matter it seems.
Crazy how relevant a lot of what he said can even apply 40 years later. Very humble, intelligent, down to earth guy. And as he’s talking about being optimistic for the future, some asshole comes and shoots him… RIP Mr. Lennon
This was so sad because John had reconciled with with Julian and acknowledged he wasn't around for his first child and was a bad absent dad. Sean was planned. Julian was not. Just really sad his opportunity to actually be a hands on dad is overshadowed by his very younger self who was not equiped to even know what a dad was (as he had none) let alone his life that thrust him into superstardom when his first son was born that he was not around for.
It was YOKO who said Julian wasn't planned! John didnt say that! He knew he was a dead beat dad to Julian and was trying reconcile the relationship with Julian. Sean wasn't planned either! Yoko spun it that way! She made John to be the bad guy all these years later and suckered people like you to believe the BS she vomited out of her lying bat shit crazy mouth! Do you research about Yoko. She is evil to the 10th power!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Very sad you are so misguided or unresearched to have such hatred. Here is John saying the fact in 1980. He has also said it a couple of times on BBC radio readily available on UA-cam. “Ninety percent of the people on this planet, especially in the West, were born out of a bottle of whiskey on a Saturday night, and there was no intent to have children. “So ninety percent of us - that includes everybody - were accidents. I don't know anybody who was a planned child. All of us were Saturday-night specials. “ Julian is in the majority, along with me and everybody else. Sean is a planned child, and therein lies the difference. “I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a whiskey bottle or because they didn't have pills in those days. “He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will.” So where is your Yoko source you nastily claim?? He disputes both your claims. Julian WAS an accident and Sean WAS planned. Sorry to burst your bubble. In fact Yoko suffered many painful miscarriages before Sean was born. They planned a family.
@Walrus Nostrils Boston Explorer, Walrus Nostrils or OCTOBERBABY7901, it's amusing you are trolling and switching accounts. Blatently caught out catfish. Screenshots are easy of the exact same comments copied. Why pretend and change your usernames? They're all in my notifications. Nobody is that naive surely? It would be interesting to have an intelligent converse, but you simply switch accounts and reply with offensive ad hominems. Btw, I was contemplating which of the 3 (God knows how many more names/alias accounts are registered to the real you...) sound more intelligent. Difficult. Mine's not difficult to link that it is a tribute to a chorus in a John Lennon song I love. Sorry but the names you choose sound childish. Sad your responses have proved my prediction to be true.
@@ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 and your name is not stupid?! I don't know about Boston and Walrus, but I have never had more than this one account. You are truly one the most ignorant idiots I've ever encountered on YT. You need to STFU! Like I said EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION, WHETHER YOU LIKE TO HEAR OT NOT!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Darling, tell John Lennon his beautiful song is stupid. You write extremely defensively. Wow that's alot of malice you choose to explode on people for simply writing a comment on UA-cam. Anger issues much?
@@damianbroderick3913 prove it. You're wrong. He didn't do any media that day. Was at his hotel all day til he went to the studio to record. Check your history mate
@@jaycuthbert245 You check YOUR history. It's not hard. They did a photo shoot for Rolling Stone in the morning, then they went to THIS interview with Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye then they completed Yokos Walking on Thin Ice then travelled home. If you have ½ a brain you can see that his last photo was in these clothes signing an autograph for the murderer.
@@jaycuthbert245 John Lennon’s last interview, taken on December 8, 1980 just few hours before his murder. John and Yoko were interviewed by Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye. Ron Hummel and Bert Keane were also part of that team. John had just finished a photo session with Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone magazine.
1:06:25 1:33:01 Sad irony 1:34:00 1:35:00 It was the end of his world later that day. 1:36:00 Beast 1:37:05 40 was his death ... 1:37:30 I listened because it was his last interview but this is fascinating in its own right.
John's comment at 14:35 is chilling. While talking about his son Sean, he says "I've learned a lot from the child, because they're not hypocrites and they're not phoney". 12 hours later he'd be shot dead by a guy obsessed with the central theme of 'The Catcher in the Rye'; that unlike children, adults were "hypocrites and phoneys".
I can’t believe this was done the day he died 😔 I know his spirit is back home but it still hurts like hell knowing what he’s walking into later that day Side note, these questions were awesome. You could tell they both were excited to discuss every single topic. Cheers for the upload 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💜💜💜
After this interview , he went downstairs to the street , where his car was suppose to be waiting for him , but it wasn’t there . He stood on the sidewalk when chapman approached him and asked him to sign his album . John signed it and asked chapman “ is that all you need “ , and chapman nodded his head yes . John and Yoko hitched a ride to the studio with these two interviewers , 5 hours later , they returned to the Dakota where chapman murdered Lennon . Haunting listening to this .
"I wasn't purposely being a hypocrite or a phony, but it took something away from what I set out to do." To think he would be killed later that day over the very idea he mentioned, but a terrible man inspired by Mr. anti-phony himself, Holden Caulfield. What a shame. For the first time in his life he was happy and relaxed, and god knows he deserved it, only to be ripped away in an instant. The world is a darker place without the art that he and George would have given us if they'd had more time.
John talks about falling in love with Yoko, having never been in love with a woman before, and having a date with Yoko, making love, all the while he was still married to Cynthia. How sad and how disrespectful of him.
The things is he’s not another average guy, his life was not ordinary life like everybody else and he was having mental breakdown and nerve wrecking since 1964. The pressure when everybody want every piece of him must be hard. His relationship with Cynthia was really2 low key, he have to hide her because he was The Beatles and she dont fight her right when Yoko stalking him for 2 years. She let John slipped more into drugs and more into Paul. She not fighting for him. John was in fragile mental state, when someone like Yoko who obsessive/possessive about him, he must be thinking that she really want him. But the problem is Yoko also have mental breakdown as well. They are not normal couple emotionally and mentally. Listen what they were saying their relationship really have big problems. All the loving2 couple was all BS. Double fantasy? What fantasy he have? Lived with Paul? Its sad actually he was so confused. Poor Yoko as well she have to listen His thought about Beatles all the time.
@@yuriitai4552 you make some very good points. I suppose I was thinking of the idealized John that was a charismatic genius and not of the real soul who was imperfect and tormented. Cynthia must have known that Yoko was stalking him and yet did not put up a fight for him. I think John’s true love was Paul.
@@flavor_kitchen I think so, but Paul now married and have kids like normal marriage, love his wife. While he being so pathetic and gay thinking of him all the time. No wonder all the bitterness about Beatles because of this thought. Try to be macho to safe face. John was really beautiful and tormented soul.
He clarified his meaning quite well a little further along. He considered that he was 'a kid' when he first married. His marriage, his life. He was there so I'd trust him to know why it didn't work, and accept his his explanation without needing to vilify anyone.
@@gregbradshaw8441 not trying to vilify. I love JL and I get where he is coming from. Just wish he would have shown his first wife and the mother of his oldest son some respect.
.... thanks for uploading this. It will probably be hard to listen to. I watch that Mind Games video of his and consider him to be THE greatest of virtually any entertainers for what he did outside of his music. He was killed for peace as much as the Hinckley's/Bushes took a shot at Reagan a year later. I think the worst part of his being shot was that he wouldn't be there for Sean.
It's sad that during the last half an hour of this interview John seems concerned with projecting a positive view of the future (as opposed to Orwell or similar authors like him), just half a day before being killed by a mad man.
John's passion and intelligence makes everything he talks about seem interesting. He's so analytical in choosing his perceptions and opinions then excellent at expressing those things just like his song writing. The level of detail in which he takes in information then expresses it could explain why he is such an excellent artist. He's just an interesting person period
I cant even sit through the whole thing, and i dont know when or if i ever will be able to. It hurts me to the point of anger that this all had to happen. I truly believe from what Paul said, and then from this interview and other accounts in this time that he had so much better things coming for him and we missed so much of the real John. I really try not to hate people, but when you take someone so beautiful, so interesting, so loved, and has so much life ahead of them away from the world for your own selfish, evil reasons, i do more than hate you. If only we had a time machine
Anything was possible before he was murdered. He probably would have gone on tour for Double Fantasy, released more albums, and agreed to a you know what with the other three.
"It's not the end of the world, the apocalypse is not going to happen." And then he himself loses his life just a few hours later. Just heartbreaking.......
He was known to be sometimes standoffish and controversial, but he was always so nice and gentle with fans. He knew what it was like to idolize someone, because he also did in his younger days.
I thought his last interview was with Andy Peebles . After Andy took a flight back to the UK and I think while still on the plane, heard about John's murder :-(
Seems all this fatherly wisdom, gained after Sean was born, lovely, insightful, willing. No one seems to be touching on the fact that he all but abandoned Julian. Simply because one no longer gets on with the child's mother...still, doesn't make that acceptable.
That's true, but I'd say Juilan turned out alright, all things considered. He's definately living a better life than if John Lennon wasn't his father, whether he was present or not. It's tragic John died before having a chance to reconnect with Julian. John clearly wasn't a role model figure in the years when Julian was growing up...
Perhaps wrap your head around the fact that Julian was an accident and John was not mature enough to be a father or husband let alone was on the verge of global superstardom. Mind you, was Cynthia ever not taken care of during Beatlemania?? She never even had to work! Lived in luxury. Had a live in nanny, cook, housekeeper.
@@instantkarma8777 Ok , Yoko's paid staff member, we know it's you commenting 🙄 U keep telling yourself that! Lennon and Cynthia dated 4 years before she got pregnant! Almost 90% of children are accidents including Sean. Go back and tell that to your Boss the devil Yoko. Oh yeah u cant, bc she suffering from Demetia! She will meet HER Lord Lucifer soon enuf!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Oh you're one of those hating bible bashers! You hate me, you hate Yoko, you hate John, you've never met any of us yet it's just an excuse to write hate. I happen to be a fan of the imperfect John Lennon who just happened to fall in love with a lady you know little of other than rumours and hearsay. Yet you spend your menial, negative life watching UA-cam clips of them for the sole purpose of spreading spite to anyone who has anything objective to say. What a life you have. 2022 and you still banter on. The man was murdered in 1980 and died painfully and here you are bantering on with your hatred in 2022. What a life you lead.
1:02:23
“And I consider that my work won’t be done until I’m dead and buried, and I hope that’s in a long, long time.”
-John Lennon, December 8th, 1980.
As he was unknowingly living his final hours of life.
:(
If only we can go back in time to save John
Cher had a song about that
I do think about that what if. Lennon was to massive to live. His mystic is part of his legend.
No-one in music has ever done what the beatles and Lennon are and were.
I think the same thing. Also for many others, including my family. I think about it all the time. Not to worry because when Christ comes again (Judgement Time) he would raise the dead back to life.♥.
Save him from Yoko?
@@d.collins3819 Well he's not going want a practising Luciferian like John Lennon anywhere near his Kingdom is he, and quite right too. Lennon can burn in Hell.
Man, he seemed so chilled out in this. You can tell he really did mellow out. Really was a damn shame with what happened to him, and for the stupidest reason.
@Let's Go Brandon the reason he was chilled out? Or the reason he was murdered?
@Bob Insane man with a gun?
Yes, he died for literally the stupidest reason ever. The jerk who shot him did it just because he wanted to become famous, he didn't even dislike John or had anything against him as a person. What a fucking shame, imagine being shot to death when you have your whole life ahead of you just because someone wants to make the headlines
IT goes all the way back to mocking The King--Jesus-no one gets away with that-cobain mocked JESUS he stuck a shotgun in his mouth-after sticking his self with a needle-chris Cornell mocked Christianity he hung his self-you do that and see how you die--and then you pay for it forever--98 per cent of the human race is going to the lake of fire--someone-listen to Cobain sing about it-now he's there!!😮😮😮
You can hear it in John’s voice he was so excited for the 80’s.
He was ready to dominate the whole 80’s decade if
John Lennon hadn’t died I feel he would’ve been impressed by the culture of the 80s like the birth of MTV and the songs that use synthesizers and gated reverb like “In The Air Tonight” and “Running Up That Hill”
@@leonardsalinas2002 Live Aid 85' would have been The Beatles long-awaited reunion, so sad it didn't happen :(
He was so positive and excited about the future. It’s heartbreaking toward the end of the tape when Yoko says, “Is the car downstairs?” They we’re off to the studio and before they got in the car John signed a copy of Double Fantasy for the creep who would kill him a few hours later. Can’t go back and prevent it from happening but it’s hard not to have those thoughts.
Even more disturbing is that the creep was waiting down there at the entrance as this interview was being recorded!!! He was there pretty much the whole day!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s really spooky. That interview ended around 5pm - you hear yoko asking about the car to go to the studio. At that point they walked out and he was photographed signing the album for his assassin.
@@tomiviitanen9099 Correct- sickening isn't it?
That is so eerie. How can this be real life? All of the things that happened to him, good and bad, almost seem orchestrated. So sad.
He was really stupid not to have bodyguards. He was talking to lunatics and surely knew that one of them was going to get him
Even more eerie is that as you're listening to this interview, he was standing there right outside the building pretty much all day!!!!
I just feel that we're living in the wrong timeline. John should still be with us.
John was so forward thinking. I always feel he’s still here it’s as if he never went away
Thank you for uploading this timeless interview....surreal hearing him talk so much about life the very day it was to end...so insightful and of course, tragic and sad.
I lost my Dad a couple of months before this interview and was already depressed. Even more Gutted when I found out John Lennon had been shot dead. I never did like the 1980's and the real reason was having John taken from us in a unnecessary way. The Beatles greatest ever group in my opinion
Amen brother
Sorry to hear about your dad. I lost mine in ‘95. Life is precious, learn and experience as much as you can while you’re here and take that to the next life where you will continue to evolve.
Sorry to sound too New Age’y
@@danielbrown1724 you are very kind, thank you my friend and take care
For a son to lose a father is very painful. Since you kist youts so close to John's death, your heart must havegone out to Sean and Julian more than the rest of us.
I lost my dad in 2016 after a short battle with brain cancer. I was 12 at the time and it really does take a long time to recover from losing a parent
@@jamesdean9183 So sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad mine years ago and my Mom 4 years ago. Life is precious.
Really miss this guy. 1:02:15 makes you just want to burst into tears.
I hear ya
Oh man
My god, that is devastating…
Hi from Liverpool. Been in the place it all started the last few weeks ( The Casbah). Its getting made into a hotel, but the club where John & Paul painted the ceiling black with stars is still there, as is lots of memorabilia. Fascinating. The owner ( Pete Bests cousin) has some great stories about the lads. His dad was called Aspinall & was the Beatles roadie in the beginning & travelled with them all over the world. Anyway just to let you know that John is still missed here & his memory lives on. God bless. 👍
@@terryhorne2582 Hi Terry, cool story. Hope to see England some day.
There’s only a small handful of well known people, whose death, set the entire human race on a completely deferent trajectory.
John was one of them..
Everything changed since then
Melodramatic nonsense.
Definitely one of the biggest deaths of the century in terms of impact within popular culture, and yeah John himself was pretty much mythologized to an unrealistic degree as a consequence. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that it changed the course of human history or something.
@@KingdomCooperFan Agreed. Plus young people mostly under 18; don't know who he was and who he played in. There are exceptions of course.
Here's s'thing about his myth......
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Slight exaggeration there mate! 🤣. There are people on this planet who has never heard of John Lennon, and people who just don't care he got killed.
I think why John Lennon was so loved by most people was how down to earth and brutally honest he was. He finally found peace at this time and it's beyond tragic what happened that night. Yoko seems actually nice in this interview as well. I have a feeling the Beatles would have reunited for Live Aid. RIP John the world misses you.
I agree! It is so fun to listen to these interviews and so interesting to see how controversial he was, and for Peace. I heard the interview by Shaun Lennon with Elton John a couple of years ago on JL's 80th year, and it was moving. Elton John said he was sure that if he hadn't of been killed, he may have won the Nobel Peace Prize and it was something I never thought of but it sure makes a lot of sense. I don't ever really like to hear anything about his murderer, and I am a True Crime buff, but that one just makes me sick, such a bid for attention, and stealing of Lennon's brightness. I also appreciate ALL the music and The Beatles and what they each evolved to. I also watched Get Back, (got me the expensive Disney subscription just for it!) and was so moved at the part where John asks the others if they heard Martin Luther King Jr's speech and he said something like "it was sheer poetry" and he speaks of how beautiful it was and says something like MLK "could be president".
Quantum leap, change his plans for that night and employ security.
We miss you John xx
It's kinda like Memorial Day! There was no one more conservative than John and George.
@@jaimesirgany4776 "conservative"? there are many words to describe john lennon but i wouldn't say "conservative" was one of them
I disagree. He had a terrible reputation in Liverpool.
He was badly behaved; with Julian and Cynthia. Used to beat the latter.
Americans are seemingly; out of touch with this aspect.
Yoko controls him here; as she always did. He had a weak personality.
He's very uninteresting in this interview
“…My work won’t be finished until I’m dead and buried. And I hope that’s a long long time.” 1:02:20😢
They were so optimistic at this stage of there lives. Bittersweet but beautiful memories.
We never know when we will wake up in the morning and it will turn out to be the last day of our life.
Man, that's depressing.
So true, we can only hope there is a tomorrow.
Well yes, but I don't think we should take ourselves too seriously, otherwise this thought can totally be depressing and haunting
Just live every second, enjoy the moment, realize we are bigger than our bodies and personal history
@@ericleon6482 tomorrow never knows
Going back to this every once and while is nice. John in conversation, in the middle of the day, sounding good, acting cool, and talking from the heart.
John's honesty & sharpness are sadly missed. Hard to believe it was 41 years ago.
The sense of ordinary life routines that John is describing in this interview undercuts just how abrupt things can change in an instant. He (along with everyone else) were not to know the horrific events that would unfold that very night....
It's so interesting to hear John Lennon talk about his life family life career Sean and Yoko and Yoko's comments. It's such a tradgety what happened later very sad. A real nice interview with them.
He sounds very happy and positive,he lost his life a few hrs after,very sad
When he signed chapman's album double fantasy,he asked him was that all he wanted(this meant,I hope you are not here for somethink else,suspicious, when he see him again for a few seconds that night,John's thoughts came back,he must ov thought that bloke is here again, Paul gorash mentioned this in his interview, Johns instinct to think like that, John was correct and feeling vunerable, sad day that was
@@roberttalbot6397 Don't know why he didn't just get back in the limo and drive thru the gate instead- nothing normal about someone getting an autograph and then stil being there SIX hours later!l
@@damianbroderick3913 yeh,but John was very insure as a person, when he signed he said do you want anything else, he meant hope you are not up to somethink, so when he seen him again that night, he thought same thoughts about him. John liked to be open with people so that's why he walked in. It should've been limo. There and back.
He was soooo far ahead of his time, just listen how he talks about healthy eating, advertising, child’ development, junk food and psychology
I was just thinking about the same... I'm listening to this 41 years later and seems he is talking about nowadays.
That was pretty common stuff lol. And was NOTHING new.
He talked about it because he was obsessed with his own weight and had an eating disorder :/ If he really cared about health he wouldn't be chain smoking cigs
@@FcknAwsm He died that day. Cut him some slack, dude.
@@FcknAwsm Nobody is perfect. We all have vices.
A shame that John didn't check up a little more on what Yoko was doing in the office. She was busy ensuring Julian was largely scrubbed out of Lennon's will - including the return of sentimental father-son letters.
“Talking to people my age. The people who survived the 60’s-who survived the war, the drugs, the politics, THE VIOLENCE ON THE STREET.”
At about the 1:13 mark
They were so happy.
He was so happy.
Had a very healthy and calm life style (which he deserved and chose wisely to live after all the work he'd done).
May you rest in peace John.
Always be missed and warmly remembered.
His spirit will keep embracing and inspiring us who identify with him.
LOL
What a dude! Just listened all 1 hour and 47 min of a soul leader, someone that was focusing his music and lyrics into mankind, trying to make this world a better place. They don't make them like him anymore...so it seems...John if you are listening...you are still a bright light man....
So weird to think Chapman was probably only a few hundred yards away waiting for him at the time this was recorded. So terribly sad. I think John was the happiest & most content he'd ever been at that point and that animal took all that away.
Calling him an animal is an insult to animals
Animals only kill for food,
I would have given you a like but you wrote the murderers name. You did exactly what the murderer wanted- notoriety and fame over 40 years later. SMH
@@kazabushy I hate the murderer but have never brought into the idea that he “wanted fame”. If this was true, then why not plead “not guilty” and have the spotlight in what would have been the trial of the century?
Wow that's crazy
I could listen to him all day long Thanks for the upload much appreciated :)
Still miss this creative& honest man!❤️
I lost it when John was asking when was this interview going to be on because he wanted to hear this interview on the radio. He didn't know that 12 hours later he would be dead way before this interview was put on the radio.
This interview ended around 5pm, in almost 6 hours John was dead
I wonder if John wouldn't have heard it anyway because this was for RKO Radio San Francisco and he lived in New York
This tape is under circulated. Hearing John so future focused is heart breaking but also inspiring. This is the first tape where Yoko is almost on equal footing and comes through as a full person, not just the woman who broke up the Beatles. My outrage and grief over both the violent death of John and then the violent attack on George that led to his relapse and his death is beyond words. It is a loss for the world that we lost them both when they had so much more life to live. "All you need is love" may sound like a simple lyric but in fact contains the answer to every single crisis on the planet. Love is all you need.
Totally agree with you, beetles 1 of the best bands ever
I think yoko is not to blame on beatles breakups
Ah "under circulated." The new zoomer tic after "underrated."
@@DJKinney 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣I thought the exact thing!! I'm sure this coined word will be overused soon enough!
Under circulated? You are 12? Did you just find out about this interview? It was mainstream media 4 decades ago!
I love this. Dave Sholin was kind enough to send me a tape of the entire interview, as produced as “The Man, The Memory” in 1981…but I always wanted to hear the original uncut. This position made me smile.
You’re lucky mate 🤟🎸
Fantastic interview isn’t it!?? He’s so relaxed and clearly engaged in every question. He had no idea what he was walking into that day.
@@danielbrown1724 Yes. So tragic and devastating.
Interview ended around 5 p.m. Shot at 10:50 p.m. Pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. News announced at 11:30 p.m. local time.
I heard the news on the 6 a.m. news on the BBC, which is 1 a.m. New York time. I was devastated.
You can listen to this just to hear someone who was great and in his element. His wit and humanity come out. I agree with everyone commenting on this post...if only he was here with us today. If only. If only.
It's frightening to think later that night he would be gone...smh...scary notion
Very shocking.
He was clueless. Biggest rock star in the world and had no security
"We've been together longer than the Beatles were."
Sadly, Yoko is one of those people who say, "You know" all of the time, and John had to live with that, you know.
It’s funny how John Lennon and Kurt Cobain (who remind me of each other a good bit, Kurt idolized John) both married totally shitty people lol.
Well actually you know means "ano" in Japanese. It's a filler word.
It just means eh! Or the Japanese for "ne". It bothers you that much?
John has now been gone for longer than he was here for.
1:47:30 "that's always the hard thing about signing things" damn, John. Damn.
It’s hard to believe he’d be dead with in the hour after this interview..
Such a beautiful interview. It was the day following my twenty-fifth birthday.😔 It's amazing how fresh it feels still. Terrible irony.
He didn’t want his son watching the adverts.
To me the most important lesson John Lennon gave us, is to believe in oneself. Do not give up your dreams, whatever they are for someone else. Never mind fear. Fear is what brought us to our current predicament.
And he taught us to never neglect ur child like he did with Julian.
How sad to think that whilst John was taking part in this interview, just a short distance away his murderer was preparing himself to kill John.
Don't worry. That monster who murdered John will get his comeuppance if he hasn't had it already. I do believe in Karma.
@@d.collins3819 I really hope so. I’d love to have 5 mins in a room alone with him
@@wezlo8733 Ok, savage.
Geraldo rivera , friend of John's , said that when john was in a room full of people he totally captivated them with his wit and intellect. He definitely would have been a force in the world for unjust causes.
John was genius. He once said , The Beatles was just a band, that's all. We're just human. Since his 1980 interview the planet hasn't evolved. Dissolving in 2021. 118:00 and 130:00 are my favourite parts.
Turn off your tv/media….set yourself free from the constant lies and propaganda….commie leftist satanic horse shit
keep in mind that Yoko was having affairs and had recently visited Sam Green's family home and tried to get him to marry her. within a month she'd have Havadtoy moved in.
With in a month ??? Within a day
Wow really? Didn’t know that
While he was doing this interview there was a wacko walking around near the Dakota with the Catcher in the Rye and a hand gun
The biggest loss in music history!
He wud have made the 80s amazing
Thats what i was thinking today!
This is true. Look at
George & Paul
🎶.Say.Say.Say 🎶
🎶I got my mind set on You!! 🎶
Great comment!! Thank you!!
✌ and Love. (WES)
He was scheduled to work on a session in January for Ringo’s Stop and Smell the Roses album. They were in the middle of the Milk and Honey sessions, getting ready to put the finishing touches, and possibly start recording the next album after that. They even had a world tour planned for 1981! Everybody says The Beatles would’ve reunited at Live Aid in 1985. So sad….
@@WinkDaMan07 Y's Walking on Thin Ice was being done that day. There were demos for M and Honey at that point
He did make the 80s amazing.
Hes telling his life before it ended. I was 9 i remember our music interruption on the radio with news of his shooting.
What a great interview. How I wish everyone would hear John’s and Yoko’s ideas and visions. If we all collectively practiced “LOVE” the world would be a better place.
Even with the friendliness and politeness, you can hear the force in his personality.
1:03:11, I don't think I ever heard John cry before. Not even tremble in his own voice with overfilled emotion. When he almost struggles to say how he didn't realize how much he needed her in his life, you can hear the overwhelming emotions of realization and love overcome him. That can't be just me, you can almost feel him most likely looking in Onos eyes after he declared that statement. Wow
From around 1:02:30 it sounds to me like he's holding in a burp or something like that, and that's why he sounds weak. Still, what he says is powerful, i don't mean to be disrespectful.
Mighty boog
Its amazing how in 5 seconds of interview you cna throw away every nonses people have said about yoko, fuck them and love yoko
Really great interview. Too sad how that day ended.
We need him here now more then ever.
And all day The Grim Reaper kept checking his watch...Great Interview,he will be remembered for a long time along with the other Beatles.
Don't worry. That monster who murdered John is probably being haunted by what he did. We are only human after all.
It's crazy how long it's been since John's death. He was 40 years old when he died and it's been 42 years since it happened. Paul and Ringo have spent more of their lives without John than they did with John.
If you told John that he was gonna die later that day he would think your crazy
He sounded happier than ever.
I don't think happier, but more excited than the usual.
they usually go together
The world is changed so much. He wouldn't recognise it.
he absolutely would be at LIve Aid. I miss what we never saw
I also think the same Valeria. Several groups regrouped for this event, such as Queen and Led Zeppelin. So the possibility that the Beatles had performed at Live Aid, in 1985, made perfect sense.
@@Gour80 Queen didn't really split up, just Freddie doing one 'bad' solo album. The Who and Led Zep were without their legendary drummers of course.
@@Gour80 What? Queen had just finished The Works Tour which went for about 10 months. But according to you they had broken up.🤣
@@kazabushy He thought the "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie was fact lol
@@johnp515 Yes I know. It's so sad to me that fictional historically inaccurate biopics are even allowed to be made. It sickens me that Brian and Roger gave the go ahead to producers for this rubbish making Freddie look like a lazy, uncaring toad with a laughable American accent. The Queen concerts reinvented were not even remotely factually correct. Nothing was factually correct. That doesn't matter it seems.
Crazy how relevant a lot of what he said can even apply 40 years later. Very humble, intelligent, down to earth guy. And as he’s talking about being optimistic for the future, some asshole comes and shoots him… RIP Mr. Lennon
JL making expresso in 1980. He was even ahead on the coffee curve! ☕️
It’s disturbing to hear John Lennon mention “gun” (1:24:25) knowing about his destiny few hours later after this great interview.
This interview
let the cat out the bag
&
*THEDEATHCULT*
[got him]
*ALL*
*PLANNED*
*TO* *THE* *SECOND*
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*NUMBERS* 🔥🐍🤺
Whenever I listen to interviews of John it’s all most as if he’s in the room today it’s as if he’s never gone away I get that with George
He seemed so happy ,found his centre as it were .Damn that Chapman he took so much away from all of Us & killed a living legend
'We feel like this is the first album' - J Lennon. Such a tragedy so much was lost
I've never cared either way about Lennon but after listening to this he seems like a down to earth guy. What a shame he was taken so early . God Bless
You cannot question John Lennon.
so sad and sorry his life was cut short by that monster. 😔
He was too stupid to realize you can't be famous and live in society. Famous people are all targets for murderers
John doing an impression of every 80s kid’s heroes , Bert and Ernie has made my day .
That’s what John was wearing when he died 😔
This was so sad because John had reconciled with with Julian and acknowledged he wasn't around for his first child and was a bad absent dad. Sean was planned. Julian was not. Just really sad his opportunity to actually be a hands on dad is overshadowed by his very younger self who was not equiped to even know what a dad was (as he had none) let alone his life that thrust him into superstardom when his first son was born that he was not around for.
It was YOKO who said Julian wasn't planned! John didnt say that! He knew he was a dead beat dad to Julian and was trying reconcile the relationship with Julian. Sean wasn't planned either! Yoko spun it that way! She made John to be the bad guy all these years later and suckered people like you to believe the BS she vomited out of her lying bat shit crazy mouth! Do you research about Yoko. She is evil to the 10th power!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Very sad you are so misguided or unresearched to have such hatred. Here is John saying the fact in 1980. He has also said it a couple of times on BBC radio readily available on UA-cam.
“Ninety percent of the people on this planet, especially in the West, were born out of a bottle of whiskey on a Saturday night, and there was no intent to have children.
“So ninety percent of us - that includes everybody - were accidents. I don't know anybody who was a planned child. All of us were Saturday-night specials.
“ Julian is in the majority, along with me and everybody else. Sean is a planned child, and therein lies the difference.
“I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a whiskey bottle or because they didn't have pills in those days.
“He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will.”
So where is your Yoko source you nastily claim?? He disputes both your claims. Julian WAS an accident and Sean WAS planned. Sorry to burst your bubble. In fact Yoko suffered many painful miscarriages before Sean was born. They planned a family.
@Walrus Nostrils Boston Explorer, Walrus Nostrils or OCTOBERBABY7901, it's amusing you are trolling and switching accounts. Blatently caught out catfish. Screenshots are easy of the exact same comments copied. Why pretend and change your usernames? They're all in my notifications. Nobody is that naive surely? It would be interesting to have an intelligent converse, but you simply switch accounts and reply with offensive ad hominems. Btw, I was contemplating which of the 3 (God knows how many more names/alias accounts are registered to the real you...) sound more intelligent.
Difficult. Mine's not difficult to link that it is a tribute to a chorus in a John Lennon song I love. Sorry but the names you choose sound childish. Sad your responses have proved my prediction to be true.
@@ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 and your name is not stupid?! I don't know about Boston and Walrus, but I have never had more than this one account. You are truly one the most ignorant idiots I've ever encountered on YT. You need to STFU! Like I said EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION, WHETHER YOU LIKE TO HEAR OT NOT!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Darling, tell John Lennon his beautiful song is stupid. You write extremely defensively. Wow that's alot of malice you choose to explode on people for simply writing a comment on UA-cam. Anger issues much?
The ending was chilling, as he talks about liking to sign autographs for people
Great interview. He seemed so full of life and I loved hearing his perspectives. What happened later that day was a cosmic joke.
It was the day after
@@jaycuthbert245 No it wasn't, it was 10.50pm that evening. This interview was in the afternoon right before he left for the studio.
@@damianbroderick3913 prove it. You're wrong. He didn't do any media that day. Was at his hotel all day til he went to the studio to record. Check your history mate
@@jaycuthbert245 You check YOUR history. It's not hard. They did a photo shoot for Rolling Stone in the morning, then they went to THIS interview with Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye then they completed Yokos Walking on Thin Ice then travelled home. If you have ½ a brain you can see that his last photo was in these clothes signing an autograph for the murderer.
@@jaycuthbert245 John Lennon’s last interview, taken on December 8, 1980 just few hours before his murder. John and Yoko were interviewed by Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye. Ron Hummel and Bert Keane were also part of that team. John had just finished a photo session with Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone magazine.
1:06:25
1:33:01 Sad irony
1:34:00
1:35:00 It was the end of his world later that day.
1:36:00 Beast
1:37:05 40 was his death ...
1:37:30 I listened because it was his last interview but this is fascinating in its own right.
🎯
No pun intended
*Illuminati* *pigs* wanted him 🤐
/⚰️
telling it like it is
got him *hit*
because he could
have become the
*new* *JFK* 🎯
Rip Jonh ❤️
I remember his day.....I’ve forgotten so many other things, but I remember this day.
Miss you john. Rest in heaven🖤
John's comment at 14:35 is chilling. While talking about his son Sean, he says "I've learned a lot from the child, because they're not hypocrites and they're not phoney". 12 hours later he'd be shot dead by a guy obsessed with the central theme of 'The Catcher in the Rye'; that unlike children, adults were "hypocrites and phoneys".
Unlike teenager, not child.
I remember the book. That's freaky
Chapman was full of crap. He made up this Catcher in the Rye nonsense to mythologize his worthless life
I can’t believe this was done the day he died 😔
I know his spirit is back home but it still hurts like hell knowing what he’s walking into later that day
Side note, these questions were awesome. You could tell they both were excited to discuss every single topic. Cheers for the upload 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💜💜💜
After this interview , he went downstairs to the street , where his car was suppose to be waiting for him , but it wasn’t there . He stood on the sidewalk when chapman approached him and asked him to sign his album . John signed it and asked chapman “ is that all you need “ , and chapman nodded his head yes . John and Yoko hitched a ride to the studio with these two interviewers , 5 hours later , they returned to the Dakota where chapman murdered Lennon . Haunting listening to this .
After listening to this interview at the end. John believed in open borders. Wonder if he would feel the same way today. Rip John
John was stupid, in several of his beliefs. 'Open borders' being one of them.
We all should live in love and peace.:-))
It's so unsettling that while this interview was going on there's was a deranged coward waiting just outside to kill him.
Heartbreaking to hear how much he loved being a Dad to Sean. He sounded so...content!
Crazy to think in just a few hours, John would not even know he ever existed at all.
A spirit like John does not die. We will meet again.
@@stephenhall11 Contrived, religious BS. You're pitiful.
"I wasn't purposely being a hypocrite or a phony, but it took something away from what I set out to do." To think he would be killed later that day over the very idea he mentioned, but a terrible man inspired by Mr. anti-phony himself, Holden Caulfield. What a shame. For the first time in his life he was happy and relaxed, and god knows he deserved it, only to be ripped away in an instant. The world is a darker place without the art that he and George would have given us if they'd had more time.
Working from home. He was ahead of the curve there, too.
John talks about falling in love with Yoko, having never been in love with a woman before, and having a date with Yoko, making love, all the while he was still married to Cynthia. How sad and how disrespectful of him.
The things is he’s not another average guy, his life was not ordinary life like everybody else and he was having mental breakdown and nerve wrecking since 1964. The pressure when everybody want every piece of him must be hard. His relationship with Cynthia was really2 low key, he have to hide her because he was The Beatles and she dont fight her right when Yoko stalking him for 2 years. She let John slipped more into drugs and more into Paul. She not fighting for him. John was in fragile mental state, when someone like Yoko who obsessive/possessive about him, he must be thinking that she really want him. But the problem is Yoko also have mental breakdown as well. They are not normal couple emotionally and mentally. Listen what they were saying their relationship really have big problems. All the loving2 couple was all BS. Double fantasy? What fantasy he have? Lived with Paul? Its sad actually he was so confused. Poor Yoko as well she have to listen His thought about Beatles all the time.
@@yuriitai4552 you make some very good points. I suppose I was thinking of the idealized John that was a charismatic genius and not of the real soul who was imperfect and tormented. Cynthia must have known that Yoko was stalking him and yet did not put up a fight for him. I think John’s true love was Paul.
@@flavor_kitchen I think so, but Paul now married and have kids like normal marriage, love his wife. While he being so pathetic and gay thinking of him all the time. No wonder all the bitterness about Beatles because of this thought. Try to be macho to safe face. John was really beautiful and tormented soul.
He clarified his meaning quite well a little further along.
He considered that he was 'a kid' when he first married.
His marriage, his life.
He was there so I'd trust him to know why it didn't work, and accept his his explanation without needing to vilify anyone.
@@gregbradshaw8441 not trying to vilify. I love JL and I get where he is coming from. Just wish he would have shown his first wife and the mother of his oldest son some respect.
.... thanks for uploading this. It will probably be hard to listen to. I watch that Mind Games video of his and consider him to be THE greatest of virtually any entertainers for what he did outside of his music. He was killed for peace as much as the Hinckley's/Bushes took a shot at Reagan a year later. I think the worst part of his being shot was that he wouldn't be there for Sean.
It's sad that during the last half an hour of this interview John seems concerned with projecting a positive view of the future (as opposed to Orwell or similar authors like him), just half a day before being killed by a mad man.
Rest in peace and peace and love to you John Lennon!!!☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️
John's passion and intelligence makes everything he talks about seem interesting. He's so analytical in choosing his perceptions and opinions then excellent at expressing those things just like his song writing. The level of detail in which he takes in information then expresses it could explain why he is such an excellent artist. He's just an interesting person period
What a wonderful interview. 💜💜💜💚💚💚
I cant even sit through the whole thing, and i dont know when or if i ever will be able to. It hurts me to the point of anger that this all had to happen. I truly believe from what Paul said, and then from this interview and other accounts in this time that he had so much better things coming for him and we missed so much of the real John. I really try not to hate people, but when you take someone so beautiful, so interesting, so loved, and has so much life ahead of them away from the world for your own selfish, evil reasons, i do more than hate you. If only we had a time machine
Amazing. Thank you.
Anything was possible before he was murdered. He probably would have gone on tour for Double Fantasy, released more albums, and agreed to a you know what with the other three.
1:43:50
John Lennon's Yesterday cover
Such a jerk
"It's not the end of the world, the apocalypse is not going to happen." And then he himself loses his life just a few hours later. Just heartbreaking.......
He was known to be sometimes standoffish and controversial, but he was always so nice and gentle with fans. He knew what it was like to idolize someone, because he also did in his younger days.
I thought his last interview was with Andy Peebles . After Andy took a flight back to the UK and I think while still on the plane, heard about John's murder :-(
Andy’s interview was his last ever bbc interview
Seems all this fatherly wisdom, gained after Sean was born, lovely, insightful, willing. No one seems to be touching on the fact that he all but abandoned Julian. Simply because one no longer gets on with the child's mother...still, doesn't make that acceptable.
That's true, but I'd say Juilan turned out alright, all things considered. He's definately living a better life than if John Lennon wasn't his father, whether he was present or not. It's tragic John died before having a chance to reconnect with Julian. John clearly wasn't a role model figure in the years when Julian was growing up...
Perhaps wrap your head around the fact that Julian was an accident and John was not mature enough to be a father or husband let alone was on the verge of global superstardom. Mind you, was Cynthia ever not taken care of during Beatlemania?? She never even had to work! Lived in luxury. Had a live in nanny, cook, housekeeper.
@@instantkarma8777 Ok , Yoko's paid staff member, we know it's you commenting 🙄 U keep telling yourself that! Lennon and Cynthia dated 4 years before she got pregnant! Almost 90% of children are accidents including Sean. Go back and tell that to your Boss the devil Yoko. Oh yeah u cant, bc she suffering from Demetia! She will meet HER Lord Lucifer soon enuf!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Oh you're one of those hating bible bashers! You hate me, you hate Yoko, you hate John, you've never met any of us yet it's just an excuse to write hate. I happen to be a fan of the imperfect John Lennon who just happened to fall in love with a lady you know little of other than rumours and hearsay. Yet you spend your menial, negative life watching UA-cam clips of them for the sole purpose of spreading spite to anyone who has anything objective to say. What a life you have. 2022 and you still banter on. The man was murdered in 1980 and died painfully and here you are bantering on with your hatred in 2022. What a life you lead.
Strange to think that he met his murderer earlier in the day and signed an autograph for him.
John met him after this interview.
@@joedebaun4547 before this and then again after
Like him or not, he was a genius.
Like is so fleeting. One day you’re here, and the next day, out of the blue, you’re not. Enjoy your life, folks.