1980 09 24 John Lennon interview 97 FM Buffalo Radio, New York.
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- 24th September 1980 - 97-FM Buffalo radio station New York, Lisa Robinson. "97 Rock"
Mixing of Double Fantasy moves from the Hit Factory to Record Plant East in New York. During the session, John gives an interview to Lisa Robinson of 97-FM Buffalo radio station.
It’s great to hear him this relaxed,
I’ll always love John. He is proof that human beings can grow
Indeed. John was evolving, right up to the end.
Yes he did grow up into the man he always wanted to be
Yes I agree John Lennon is proof humans can grow.John Lennon a awesome singer and song writer
John had come full circle. He was happy and at peace . In an interview with the BBC, he said I can walk down the street with no fear, I'm happy and whole. And then some sick selfish monster comes along and it's over. I love my brother John. May he be in death as he was in life. Powerful, beautiful, and all love, all the time. 😊
And the best sence of humor. 😊
The love for his son is a beautiful thing. John did not live a normal life and lived through a lot of loss. I’m sorry his sons didn’t have him in their lives very long.
If I could back in history he’d be the person I would want to meet most
He was so real.
He is a fantastic artist.
Horrible person. Awful dad, violent husband.
Terrible friend. Corrupt business partner.
Was
Yes I agree 💯
@@ralex3697 Relax
What a sweet interview! I especially loved hearing John express his joy of being at home with Sean and learning how to do some cooking for the house and being there for the little moments with his son. It breaks my heart he didn't get to see Sean grow up.
I always find time to listen to anything John Lennon says; this is no exception - a great interview with the great and sadly departed man. RIP John. Thanks for uploading.
One of the best I’ve heard. I’m a huge Lennon guy, thank you for this.
r.i.p. Johnny
Love John Lennon a awesome singer and song writer alot of great songs ❣️ RIPJOHN Lennon 💐
Sad but sweet. 💜 How we miss him🥺
RIP John.
This is fantastic!!!!!
He was a gem. I miss him. ☮️💟
This is an incredible interview; perhaps the best I have ever heard with John. I give much of the credit to Lisa Robinson, who asks intellegent and thoughtful questions...the kind I always want to hear in interviews but rarely do. John is relaxed and wanting to talk, and the combination of the two coming together (no pun intended!) is really brilliant. My favorite moment is when he is talking about how he stopped playing music 5 years before, discovered there is this other life that is rich and satisfying, and so now the pressure was off. He knew he could live without it.
I relate. And changed #9 likes to #10. He’s October 9th. I’m October 10th. Dig it.
I love her classic New York accent which is now a thing of the past. It's a shame how homogenized New York City became. New York lost its character.
@@MrThermostatic Sad, but true. I still have mine, but it does seem to be fading out, in general.
Yes, Lisa Robinson is very impressive. Always liked her style.
This was one of the most in depth personal interviews I've ever heard with John. Six weeks after this interview, he was taken from us.
And sad to say they deified him just the same way he said they would in this interview had he passed in the mid 70’s. Prescient.
what an incredible shame when a lunatic took his life, I was 13 at the time, I remember it like it was yesterday.
So sad John Lennon was taken from us,by that crazyevil man, love John Lennon music,a awesome singer and song writer
@@lisaparsons4124 absolutely, but he just happened to be famous, it happens every day, but what a pointless thing to do, beyond belief but that's what some people are like, if you was unlucky you could be walking down the street and get murdered by a random stranger, it's rare but it happens, you never know what's around the corner.
and these things happen when you're least expecting it, I bet John Lennon must have thought what's happened to me? but reading articles about it that guy was sinister and when John Lennon signed his album in the famous photo, when he came back to the Dakota building he was still there, waiting, John Lennon was uneasy about this bloke but I don't suppose he could ever have imagined what was going to happen.
What a great guy.
Rest In Peace John Lennon 1940-1980. Good Interview!
That was really interesting. I always enjoy coming across stuff like this.
He was always interesting, smart and funny. ☮️💟☮️💟
I still have a signed cassette from him
cool
Imagine it is worth a great deal
What was it like meeting him?
Sean is grown up, very bright, and very much around.
I thought I heard everything. Thanks for posting. Great to see new stuff turn up.
John Lennon was incredibly kind and nice to his fans he had total respect for them and was very open and honest. Something I really admired about John Lennon was he didn't talk down to people like in a patronising way and nor did Yoko. It sounds like he had a lot of early rejection in life. He had a very tough life in some ways. He wasn't pretentious at all.
Oh, someone always has to make a cliche Yoko is ______'comments.
@@morbidmanmusic I love Yoko Ono and John Lennon loved Yoko Ono. Please have some respect for Yoko Ono as she was John Lennon's wife. What is more Yoko Ono isn't condescending or patronising. Please leave her alone.
This is amazing to hear from John. He covers a lot of topics in a short time. Thanks for posting this .
Yes indeed😊I very great conversation💖
A very unique and talented man I didn't agree with everything he did but he always had my respect as far as music goes it was the best I love John Lennon I miss John Lennon.
Very very good interview - Never heard this before. Thanks for sharing!
John Lennon was a awesome singer and song writer,a great artist.Love and remember his music, and in1980,I was 14, when he passed.May John Lennon RIP 💐💙
He sounded really happy and peaceful towards the end of his life.
The Beatles were so many things, Musical geniuses, husbands, fathers, bakers, gardeners, family men, buddies,icons, producers,painters, poets, actors, innovators. Truly, growth was the most common theme, aside from the Peace and Love movement they pioneered! What a gift and a loss all in one. John Lennon For Ever.
Yes very incite full interview with some stuff I haven’t heard before!
I still miss his creative energy and cheeky sense of humour. 🕊
Read almost every book listened to almost every interview never heard this before why
Me too. This is terrific!!!!!
John was always so real from day 1
Great interview - maybe the most relaxed / normal / honest ever
One of the best JL interviews!!!!!!!! Thank you! ☮️💟☮️💟
It's amazing how much he changed the world. He started The Beatles and world-wide, people followed.
I remember when John started wearing glasses in public. Right after, every guy has the same style, every where.
In the Sixties, life revolved around The Beatles. Truly a cultural phenomenon. John&Yoko4Ever
The way some people talk about john lennon, you would think he was a serial killer or something lmao John was just human that made some mistakes. Yes john could have been a better father to julian but many people get divorced and start new families, not just john lennon. John was becoming a better father to julian and was keeping in contact with julian through the years. There is sooo many pictures of them together. And also the wife beater thing is highly exaggerated, it's getting tiring reading those damn comments. John hit cythia once as a young man, he apologized and never hit her again, cynthia herself in her book said it was only once. Why does no one mention ringo abusing his wife but only john gets singled out as this evil person. Ringo used to beat his wife barbara, ringo said this himself. There is so many untrue rumors about john lennon floating around these days, i even heard a rumour of john hitting julian which is the biggest bullshit story i haver heard. Was john perfect? No, of course not but he wasn't this monster some people are trying to paint him as these days
Well said. I agree with everything you wrote and I wish more people were this level headed and reasonable about John. He was very open about his shortcomings and trying to become a better person. I don't condone or excuse some of his awful actions but I respect that John was trying to be a better father and person towards the end of his life.
Wonderful interview. ❤️🙏🏻❤️
simply Amazing !!!!
Great interview
I was born Kirkdale 1950 i lived near by these guys seen it all way back then & NOTHING comes close to these boys in a world full of "Buble gum " music i later went on to get hooked on to Dylan,Bowie & Leonard cohen, the crap we have now is simply that>
That’s very cool! Thank You for sharing. I’ve loved The Beatles since I was little. Peace and Love to you!
It was magic maybe even cosmic with the Beatles and how they made so many classics and started talking about love and Spirituality and justice. Uncanny
This is shown to me on my mobil from 1980...
John, probably listening to the Beeb on shortwave. I wish he lived, his voice and contribution in all the crisis we’ve been through since he left us would have been interesting.
Yes indeed
In 79/80 the BBC were talking about scrapping the BBC World Service and John was very vocal in keeping this service going (it was clear that he was more home sick than he let on throughout the 70’s…. One of his favourite things to do in NYC was to sneak away from Yoko and go to a Irish bar and read the English newspapers that had arrived fresh off the plane)
RIP John..imagine..........
Wow, that was fantastic. Has this been circulating for a while? I listen to nothing John, I'm surprised I never heard this before.
Excellent interviewer. She never interrupted him.
I never knew he kept playing in Hamburg after the others went back home. I wonder if those musicians he played with ever talked about that time.
When he talked about working 6 hours to come up with a song...and nothing happened...then Nowhere Man just channeled thru...Jeeeez... that's just so amazing to think about. What a great interview. 😃
Agree!!!
That's generally how song writing happens....
John was in a good mood on Those days.Would be great still have him nowadays.
Oh my gosh. The amount of condemnation from these comments!!. So are you all perfect in your life?? Nothing you regret? I did things in my 20 and 30 that I'm not proud of but I learned from them. You without sin cast the first stone!. Yea he was young in his 20 and maybe wasn't the best dad. But he grew up and was better with Sean. Good greif people... we grow up and grow as a person!!!
Really appreciate this comment! Unfortunately in this modern age with social media has made people hypercritical, and self-righteous. John was a flawed individual , no doubt, and I truly can't excuse some of the terrible things he did but he was honest about most of his failings and trying to be a better person. By the end of his life he had become a loving father to Sean and was having a good relationship with Julian. It seems people are so quick to condemn him while acting like they're faultless beings, without realizing the complicated time he was brought up in.
This interview sounds like he had come to terms with life and got rid of all his demons....Sure miss him. I am almost certain there would of been a reunion in the 90's or early 2000's had he not been murdered.
I was never certain of a reunion. He'd have turned his life back upside down and end up absolutely never able to do the simplicities of his life such as to go out for a stroll in the park. He already had enough difficulties with his privacy as it was. Hence, employing Fred Seaman to do everything for him.
They would’ve for LiveAid IMO
@@BeesWaxMinder You're dreaming. They had no interest for George's Bangladesh charity concert in 74 and only Ringo turned up. None of them for No Nukes concert in 79. Only Paul for the Kampuchea (aka Cambodia) crisis charity concert in 79. None for CND in any year. And you think they'd turn up for some starving Africans - who always starved every year?
So, is that why George and Ringo never turned up for Live Aid? And McCartney could hardly even be bothered doing it, like he couldn't care less and only played one single song?
@@apollomemories7399
Really?!
tell THAT to Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof!
ONE SONG?! …You weren’t there
Live Aid was not as organised an event as TV-reruns & TH-cam might have you believe -even Elvis C’ got to do a Beatles song & there’s honestly little comparison to Live Aid with anything up til then
Some things don’t neatly fall into place historically & it’s one thing for, say, Frankie Goes to Hollywood not appearing whilst Simple Minds get to play Song after Song after Song after Song after Song and another to suppose that the likes of the Beatles are gonna say “screw you” while Macca’s gonna say “I deign to merely play One Song, maybe…”
Live Aid was a once in a lifetime one-off & The nearest thing to live aid was Live8, more than ConcertForBangldesh where ‘Floyd were at levels of animosity with each other that few bands could ever imagine (I can’t imagine the Fab Four spending millions in court arguing over the sex of an inflatable pig!)
Anyway… We’re splitting hairs and talking about something that never could have happened -there was no ‘Threetles’ & there has never been another John
YMMV
@@BeesWaxMinder Have you any idea whatsoever as to what you're talking about here?
Firstly, Pink Floyd were not remotely involved in LiveAid. LiveAid was in 1985 and the only member of Pink Floyd who had any involvement was David Gilmour, who played support guitar during Bryan Ferry's set.
Secondly, what you're thinking of in terms of Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof was Live 8 in 2005.
You have confused LiveAid with Live 8.
Good grief, you know nothing.
If you can't even grasp the basic facts then don't talk about it as you only drop your trousers.
Yes, one song was all Paul McCartney played.
Of course, I wasn't there - did you see the type of audiences that go to these things? Wild horses couldn't drag me to be anywhere near that.
I was getting ready for school I was 11 me mum shouted up John's been shot jam 55 soon it's never left me. Rip John miss you so much x
Excellent upload and channel! Subbed. Thanks!
Odd that he was still making demos even during 77 and 78.
He was one of a kind.
Paul is a great musician but John was a genius.
Both were
Paul is definitely a genius as well, just a different kind to John, but their differences are what made them compliment each other perfectly.
Paul was 70% of all Beatles output. That is an established fact now. Even the best part of John’s songs were Paul’s ideas.
@@kevinfitzsimons41 All hail the great McCartney, huh?
@Robert Giesecke "SMOOTH JAZZ GUITAR" no argument there. John let go of the reins about the time of Revolver and got lazier over time. His contributions to the Let It Be album were next to nothing and he didn’t do much more on Abbey Road
Being prophetic @17:28-17:41.
True! That’s haunting
I totally relate to how he felt about everything Rocklove ArtyThan ☆♡☆
I’m not the only one !
❤️
rip johnny
2:20 "She was taking care of business".
Speaks volumes.
God bless poor John..
You don't get a gold record for making bread? Probably doesn't pay quite as well either. 😆 Love John!
Attention: The Beatles Interviews - I was confused by the date header at the top stating 1980 10 24, as this was actually as stated below in September.
Ultimately, a little boy was robbed of his father. That really means more than what any of us lost.
His teenage son was also robbed.
RIP JL...
I wonder what he'd be up to now if he was still alive.
definitely mucking about on twitter and baking bread
"Endless time"😢 Wow, first mention of "macrobiotics" I've ever heard.
This might be the most human interview I've ever heard him do.
What a Guy......GOD!!!!!!
When he talks you can tell he's trying so hard to make every word every moment relevant and everything he does relevant, he thought too much of himself ,he should have just relaxed and did what he does best in life which he kept running from
❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢
Poor John, he retired a time for not killing himself, but, after all, he found his own killer instead. His Fate was Sealed.
The day before John Bonham died.
I'm same with phones
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤
I’m astounded - no Yoko Ono! Yippee
Have we lost our accents since 1980?
In my opinion, Yoko represented a complete and total opposite of who John was. But this was a complementary opposite - like an opposing weight that stabilizes a flywheel.
You people sre so quick to judge.You have no idea what another person goes thru in their life that may bring them to decisions thatay be wrong or right
Ste you a perfect father,a perfect mother. a perfect person ? Get real.John always backed his beliefs matter the cost.He was honest and real.
I feel very bad for Julian and Cynthia but when I listen to this I realize that the beetle John was just twent two years old when he became a star he hadn't grown up and he was being pulled by the record companies what was expected plus they where on world tours it was into the studio anyone who is being told they are the greatest thing on earth when they haven't had tome to even grow up yet you can understand even Cynthia said that she just wanted a normal married life dad coming home getting his pipe and slippers making dinner while John bonded with his son Paul told her that's not John Lennon he had known his personality better than anyone at that time and he was a bastard but as he grew older he realized the important things in Julian's life and he tried to rectify it but the damage was done and he grew up with a very strong female influence so ending up with yoko was almost ment to happen he allowed her to control every aspect of his life he knew nothing of business so I'm sure she told him that Julian would be fairly cared for and he never doubted her
So being dead was always in his mind, I guess being an orphan is what he really couldn't overcome. Sounds also like John was an introvert that for necessity acted as an extrovert to survive as a musician..
He experienced a lot of death in his life, losing several people he was close to. He knew about death.
Damn Mark David Chapman.
That's interesting, because George said John returned to Liverpool 2 days after he'd been deported. John says he stayed in Germany for two additional months with the house band. Which story is true? 🤔
With John the truth is usually somewhere in the middle….
It was only 10 days. Paul, George and Pete were deported on the 21st of November and John returned to Liverpool and kept himself to himself before catching up with the others on the 15th of December.
He says a number of time he didn’t write music or touch a guitar for 5 years, and yet there is no shortage of demos from this period…. In 1976 he even started writing a musical.
Even the lost weekend, he makes zero reference to Mae Pang, and yet he was seeing her regularly up to 1978, and he phoned her from South Africa when he visited in early 1980…. And he was fully aware Yoko was seeing Sam Havadtoy during this period
John 9:24
Casting the first stone? No sin on your hands? ❤️ Brother John ❤️money for dope,money for rope
Oh it’s wonderful to be here .. listening to John without the wall flower witch
I know exactly how he feels! I hate phones! I hate thirsty people calling. Leave me alone to be me enjoying the nothingness . . If I wanna hear from you, I will call you,
Did Sean Lennon hear this?
I think he should
Oh John why couldn't you spend some precious time with your first young son Julian?...
Very lucid. Not the scattered ADHD-like John we often hear.
No mention of May Pang
I think it should be 9/24 not 10/24.
One disturbing part: he refers to Yoko as “mother”. She was so immersed in every aspect of his life for a very long time…….
She was his handler!
@@lucytupper69 And manipulator. IMHO.
Poor Julian did nt get the attention when he was very young.John did nt have time. because of the fans and making records.
Yoko taking care of business Julian was left out of his will.
Yoko is one of the most hated woman on earth, no amount of money will change that.
John set up a trust fund for Sean and Julian. That’s why they weren’t in the Will. Stop spreading ignorant misinformation.
@@al1665 Apparently, you are a very hate filled individual.
@@BadfingerBoogieBarb That's correct 250k when he reached the age of 25 for Julian. The rest of John's estate, Yoko has total control and she got everything.
Would I be right in saying?
@@joesmith34 No, the trust fund was in the millions. Julian didn’t receive all of his share until he was in his 30s. Yes, Yoko inherited the rest. She was his wife and his kids were minors. Nothing unusual about it.
14 minutes in is the premise of Season 4 of Stranger Things
so nice without Yoko there piping in.
Ironic...🎵
3:21 taking pictures of food before taking pictures of food was a thing.
John Lennon died💀 young only 40 years old? 😪
Its a shame he abandoned Julian. Says alot about his true character.
Spent time with Julian in 74 thanks to May Pang but that seems to be for one summer. 75 Lennon is back with Yoko and Julian seems to fade from view again. History repeating its self, as you'll be aware John himself was abandoned by his father.
@@thebeatlesinterviews7924 True. But at least he tried to become a better dad with Sean. Just like he used to be a violent person who learned to be peaceful and non-violent. Lennon was no saint but we should at least give him credit for trying to become a better person later in life.
He was a young man who was world famous, traveling the globe and constantly making music. It is sad that he didn’t have a better relationship with Julian, but under the circumstances I doubt that others would’ve acted much differently. In later years he became a better person as far as family goes and had he lived, perhaps he and Julian would’ve established a closer bond. We’ll never know but the fact that you even made a comment like this tells me a bit about your character.
@@MIB_63 40 years a fan, all the books, all the interviews and I arrive at the same place as yourself MIB 63. No Saint but he took steps to become a better person later on.
He said he did as he was hard on himself for not being around early in Julian’s life as he was on the road with the Beatles. However you can find hundreds of photos of John and Julian together throughout the years (even during the years he was raising Sean). He gets a bad rap, because he wanted to be better, however for every 1 picture of Paul with his son James, or for every 1 pic of Ringo with his son Zak, or for every 1 pic of George with his son Dhani, I can find 50 pics of John with his son Julian. John was just to honest when he gives an interview and because of this, he gave himself a bad reputation as he wanted to be better.
Crap questions
But great answers.
@@jchow5966.. better and more interesting answers, with better questions