Newly Surfaced JOHN LENNON Interview

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John Lennon Speaks in Newly Released Interview
Ex-Beatle Talks About Band's Breakup and the Pitfalls of Fame
John Lennon

John Lennon was shot outside his New York City home on Dec. 8, 1980. Now, Rolling Stone magazine is making never-before-heard interviews with the former Beatle available online. (AP Photo )

Dec. 5, 2005 — Animosity over Paul McCartney's stardom was one of the main reasons the Beatles split up, John Lennon says in a newly released interview from 1970.

Lennon was 30, and the Beatles had broken up just months before, when he and wife Yoko Ono talked to Rolling Stone editor/founder Jann Wenner. Lennon explained how strained the relationships between the "Fab Four" had become when they shot their last film, a documentary called "Let it Be."

"I felt sad," Lennon said. "That film was set up by Paul, for Paul. That's one of the main reasons the Beatles ended, 'cause … I can't speak for George [Harrison], but I pretty d— well know, we got fed up being sidemen for Paul. And the camera work was set up to show Paul and not show anybody else. That's how I felt about it. And on top of that, the people that cut it, cut it as 'Paul is God' and we're just lying around there. I felt sick."

Lennon also said he was deeply hurt by the band's reaction to his 38-year-old wife.

"They despised her, they insulted her, and they still do," Lennon said.

In the nearly seven-hour interview, Lennon also expressed his frustration with his mega-stardom.

"They're just sucking us to death," Lennon said of his fans. "About all we can do is do it like … circus animals. I resent being an artist in that respect. I resent performing for … idiots who won't know — who don't know — anything. 'Cause they can't feel — I'm the one that's feeling, 'cause I'm the one expressing what they are trying to. They live vicariously through me and other artists."

Wenner said the singer felt things deeply.

"John was a man of extreme passions," he said. "He would feel something, something and then change his mind. He was angry at the whole experience — the lies and the dishonesty. He was angry at the hypocrisy, the false fronts. It bled him dry."

Lennon also spoke of rivalries between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

"I think Mick [Jagger] got jealous," Lennon said. "I always was very respectful of Mick, of the Stones, but he said a lot of sort of tarty things about the Beatles, which I am hurt by, because I can knock the Beatles, but don't let Mick Jagger knock them. Because I just like to … list what we did and what the Stones did two months after, on every … album and every … thing we did, Mick does exactly the same. He imitates us."

Despite all he had achieved by 1970, Lennon still harbored intense resentment toward those who never appreciated him as a child.

"People like me are aware of their genius (so-called) at 10, 8, 9," he told Wenner. "I had always thought why hadn't anyone discovered me? In school can't they see that I'm cleverer than anyone else in this school? That the teachers are stupid too?! I used to say to Auntie 'you throw my … poetry out and you'll be sorry when I'm famous.' I was different. I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? It comes out that people like me have to save themselves because you get … kicked and say to themselves look at me. I'm a genius …. What do I have to do to prove to you … who I am? And don't you dare criticize my work like that. You who don't know anything about it."

Wenner said Lennon "was a volcanic individual to begin with," but did have a softer side. When Wenner asked him where he would be when he was 64, (a question inspired by the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty-Four") Lennon answered that he and Ono would be living alone, looking back on their "scrapbook of madness."

Lennon was shot dead 25 years ago in front of his apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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The full interview is available at via podcast.

This is old news re-released as new which is CHEESY since it's from from Lennon's classic 1970 Rolling Stone interview & one of his best.

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Originally posted by Wayne L.
This is old news re-released as new which is CHEESY since it's from from Lennon's classic 1970 Rolling Stone interview & one of his best.

No WAYNE, it's the audio, the complete interview before they cut out his comments about PAUL and MICK JAGGER.


He also talks about his bizarre new age "Primal Scream Therepy" designed to get out pent up emotion...

It's STILL old news.

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Listen to it WAYNE, then judge (you buffoon).

Yoko ONO has hot feet. Doesn't she?

If YOU like Yoko, that's your business Nick.

[Terry]

John and Paul weren't getting along toward the end of the Beatles?

Wow!

Kinda agree in some aspects with Lennon's remarks about Jagger, but then the Stones put out Exile two years after the Fab Four were no more, and IMO Exile lays to waste the whole Beatles catalog.

[Hardrock69]

Ooooooh...Wayne is upset by the re-release of an old interview....

[Hardrock69]

It is true though that Mick was jealous of The Beatles and tried to emulate their direction....

[Jahuli]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
It is true though that Mick was jealous of The Beatles and tried to emulate their direction....

no
Stones Rule

I have read the classic RS interview with the late, great John Lennon more times than some of you have listened to a Beatles album & calling this new again is CHEESY no matter if you don't think it is.

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Originally posted by Wayne L.
I have read the classic RS interview with the late, great John Lennon more times than some of you have listened to a Beatles album & calling this new again is CHEESY no matter if you don't think it is.

WAYNE, you're a fucking retard incapable of reading an entire interview. Now fuck off and go look at pictures of feet porn you loser...

[Hardrock69]

To get bent out of shape over this is the purest definition of "cheesy" there is.


Wayne L......Cheese Meister....