Beatles and John fan here! When John said he’s saving lives for being in bed IS ridiculous. Sometimes we gotta admit he thought way too much of himself.
Thousands of lives were saved by the peace movement.. people have said they didn't go because of the things Lennon and others said and did. If he hasn't done stunts like go to bed for peace not as many people would have been discussing the issue. As he notes, the Beatles were being followed and photographed and written about every day and he might as well do something like that... It was easier to have the press come to his room than to organise press conferences in a town he didn't live in and he was under even more scrutiny because he had just got married and there isn't much room in a hotel bedroom so the idea of saying we are having a bed in was a way of joking about the fact that they would both be in or in the bed or in the room. Sure it seems a naive kind of stunt but these things are born organically and he didn't necessarily expect it to be discussed several years on. People were dying in the war there and then and history has sided with those who spoke out.
@@Rich-ng3yy I'm sure many beatles fans refused to serve in the war because of what lennon said, but Thousands? Especially when you could be prison-ed for refusing to serve? I'm not so sure about that. Also a beatles fan. Love his accent here as well. Gloria Emerson was also a tough lady, she was diagnosed with parkinsons in her old age and chose to shoot herself and die instead of having to be helpless and a burden. Ironic how both lennon and gloria here died of a gunshot, but in extremely different ways.
Im sure he could have done so much more specially with his power in songs like freda peeple or give peace a chance , it was dangerous to say that and make a whole generation sing a long , but also think that Yoko made him believe he only could do good and inflated his ego making him not analyze his actions and words , ending with false promises , if he had stopped consuming so many hard drugs and left his mommy issues with yoko , he could have had so much political and social power
@@gregh5061 The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, four of the most famous people at that time. I think you're understating (not by your own fault) their significant because of how different the world is now. They had an absolute hold on the world for 7 odd years. Look at the turnout after Lennon's death. It wasn't hundreds. It was thousands, hundreds of thousands from America and Britian alone. Many many more from the rest of the world.
@@loosilu Lazy? Refused to do the work? Do you mean by not going out in the streets and actively protesting against the war as others were doing, rather than laying in bed and conducting a 'bed-in for peace' which even he came to realize was silly? He had that drug charge and was at risk of being deported so he had to be careful. Not sure whether he was on Nixon's 'enemies list.'
@@jamesanthony5681 He described himself as the laziest man in the world. He slept all day and did next to nothing. That's from his own mouth. It was corroborated by multiple people that he basically refused to get off his ass for any reasons.
Gloria Emerson is one of the most important journalists of her generation, mainly because she's one of the first female journalists to cover wars/conflicts, and insisting being sent to these places, rather than regulated to the "fashion tips" sections of newspapers. She was a trailblazer and game changer for women in Journalism. For those thinking she hasn't brought up any good points to Lennon about his campaign : If a musician told their main audience of 18-24 year olds, you know that demographic that most politicians would love to grab up for a lifetime if they could, that that politician was no good, untrustworthy, or not fulfilling their obligations in office, do you think that musician's fan base would listen? Do you think they'd listen to that musician before they listened to that politician. A musician doesn't have to stop politicians. A musician only has to stop the people voting for them. And you think Artists and Musicians have no power over Politic, or Religion. You're undervaluing the power of Art to influence Society. Gloria Emerson did not underestimate that power at all, she knew its potential to guide youth, opinion, and votes. She was just talking to a "Pop" artist, whose main impetus for writing songs with McCartney, was to get swimming pools. Money. That's why you see Harrison turning the charity event using music, as a working tool for assistance. Because he did it right. He hit all forms of media to push that concert, the live album, the film, and when media changed, that concert was available in all the updated technology. Since 1971, that concert has perpetually funded UNICEF for over 50 years. And the people that say he did it "wrong" are fools. He did it right. If you get chased by the US for taxes, when something clearly says it's a charity, you've become a target. Especially if you're on FBI lists of investigation (which he and Lennon both were). Especially if you're naming the US as the main culprit as to WHY there were so many people dying and refugee in Bangladesh. Because the USA funded the Pakistan army that did that shit to millions of people. And Harrison blatantly said this in advertising / promotion of the concert. She's exasperated with an Artist who is making comical gestures imploring peace and change, but not making any real sacrifice, or enduring any hardship or punishment for doing so. Almost making it "entertainment purposes only." Muhummad Ali protested the Vietnam War or serving in it, and he most definitely got punished for doing so. This is why she asks him "What do YOU know about Protests." Because the kind of protests she's witnessed, that she's been reporting on, she's seen, have people getting beaten to death, or hauled off to prison, or never seen again. People with picket signs getting their heads bashed in by police, or shot at, tear gassed. What does John Lennon know about any of that, sitting in a bed getting room service. Are these things a joke to you is her response to him. There are people sacrificing their lives to make changes so that more lives don't get lost, and you're sitting in bed. This is why she called him a fake. He calls her a snob for being high horse about things. She tells him what you're doing is BENEATH YOU, you're BETTER than this. Where she is, is where HE should be. Not doing Barnum & Bailey circus antics. That's why she's giving Lennon a hard time. Because he's having an easy time being a "commie loving hippy."
This whole attitude seems ridiculous. It makes the suffering of the "giver" more of a focus than what they actually give. Seems like she wants John Lennon to suffer more than she wants him to make any kind of difference.
@@bravetherainbow the point is, that she was a renowned political Journalist with many years of experience in her field and knew full well that john wasnt making any difference and wouldn't make any difference, and she was right.
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Gloria Emerson (May 19, 1929 - August 3, 2004) was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent. Emerson received the 1978 National Book Award in Contemporary Thought for Winners and Losers, her book about the Vietnam War. She wrote four books, in addition to articles for Esquire, Harper's, Vogue, Playboy, Saturday Review and Rolling Stone.
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And I really like it when John says “well I’m sorry if you like you’re old moptops dear and you thought I was typical and you liked hard day’s night but I’ve grown up, but you obviously haven’t.”
It's a fascinating interview, I'd love to see the full version if one is available. What strikes me is that both John Lennon and Gloria Emerson wanted the same thing namely peace but disagreed on how best to achieve it. I can see why Gloria Emerson was annoyed with Lennon viewing his campaigns as narcissistic and ineffectual given his enormous celebrity status. However, there is no doubt that Lennon's actions influenced a huge number of people and continue to inspire people today. Gloria Emerson did the hard graft of visiting Vietnam, reporting from the frontline and exposing the horror of war from the victims' perspective for that she should be admired. Interestingly, Emerson believed that if Lennon had gone to Vietnam and visited the troops with his message of peace he could have stopped the war.
This sums it up beautifully. The Lennons certainly did some good in their efforts to advertise peace. But I think Emerson by this point had seen so much suffering in Vietnam and had seen so many risk their bodies and livelihoods to oppose the war in the US that she could not put aside her disdain for PR efforts. Had she simply said to the Lennons, here is something else you can do if you really want to see the war end and put it to them quite seriously, who knows how history might have differed.
I think Gloria Emerson had an agenda. Anyone who is against war would never attack with such venom someone who is just advertising for peace. What does she care? To interview Lennon just to call him out as a phony is very contradicting for some women who claims to be pro peace.
@@joaquindelarosa1215 She did have an agenda of ending the war. A reading of her work and her book about the era would show that. But she is condescending toward the methods espoused by John and Yoko, thinking of it as a lot of talk and little action. She was short-sighted in the way she treated John and Yoko here, certainly. Some of that came from condescension toward those representing the generation below hers.
This interview shows both approaches to achieve peace have failed miserably lol. Showing people the reality of war, and making them "jolly" about world peace is equally useless. At the end of the day, everyone is out for themselves and there will always be a clash of self interests and egos among people who hold different values and interests = never-ending conflicts and wars. Such is the pathetic state of human nature and nothing ever will change as long as humans walk the earth.
@@joaquindelarosa1215 What does she care? Why attack someone with such venom? Because she said Lennon's actions were self aggrandizing and vulgar, and she believed his actions - his silliness - undermined legitimate protests that were happening on the streets and on college campuses.That's why she cares. That's why she attacked with such venom. And Lennon deserved every bit of that venom with his ridiculousness.
@@BenNewton-c6z Richard Widmark in Kiss of death made a name for himself pushing a lady in a wheelchair down a stairway while smiling and laughing like a psycho (the part he played)
Read ‘Winners and Losers’ by Gloria Swanson to understand how much she knew about war. She was a reporter in Vietnam “in the sh*t” and then spent considerable time roaming around the country interviewing people affected by the war. Garry Wills dismissed the book in a totally soulless review, but he was a desk jockey when it came to proximity to the war, about which he pontificated at great length.
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To those unaware, Gloria Emerson had been a foreign war correspondent for almost two decades by this point. She was by no means an establishment reactionary. The year after this interview she returned to Vietnam to write about the immense unhappy changes happening in the lives of the Vietnamese people which wasn’t widely covered by the press, who usually only covered the military side of things. By the end of her time there she had comforted countless young American soldiers in their final moments while John and Yoko sat in a bed. She was an incredible woman and she possessed wisdom clearly lacking in those two, as they were living in their own out of touch world at this point in time. Love John but he did not take criticism well.
Tbf John Lenon and Yoko did this to promote world peace and anti-war. They sat on the bed and got a lot of coverage for it. Don't trivialise what they achieved.
You’re take is a good example of someone who underestimates the massive influence that art can have. Nobody is gonna give a fuck about her article. It doesn’t matter how paramount you may think your message might be - presenting it to the public is the hard part. It’s like everything else in life . You may have a great idea but executing and producing that idea is the hard part. If you want to change the publics attitude, the way to do it is mass influence. The Beatles had an influence so large that it rivaled political figures and several facets of the media
You know it's so funny because back in the time of the 70s practicality was the only way anything could get done...to advertise in a video that only one person would watch would have sounded absurd. Do we know that's incorrect? Of course, TH-cam. One small act repeated millions of times has a major impact., I have to say that John Lennon was very insightful. I'm not one of those people to love everything John Lennon did. Infact I thought this was crazy untill I thought about it. In this idea he had a great insight and was ahead of his time. . Also I got it! He wasn't saying that he was going to save the world by staying in bed he just said I have a honeymoon. I can take it and go to France and see the Eiffel tower or I can do something that will look unusual that people will want to ask me about it and I will tell them.im doing it for peace. That's yours ahead of its time . I see people say they cringe at the time when they saw them in bed but I have to say it's a brilliant idea. Ahead of his time. If we all did our daily routine and claimed to do it for a cause that topic would be much more on people's thoughts ...like us still talking about John Lennon and Yoko ono staying in bed...For what? Peace...still talking about peace peace.... we think John Lennon should have done this big event but he was going to go on a honeymoon either way....so why not avertise peace .. so he gave up going to Hawaii for a week or ten days I'm relaxed in order to advertise Peace by staying in bed. I think that constitutes a good thing and anybody should not have the gall ro mock that?
Well actually I think it's stupid. Yes we talk about it but not in the way he intended to talk about. it came out exactly like the lady thought it would. He got lots of criticism about it and yes he was a hypocrite talking and singing about peace. Has his song do anything except being a tearjerker? Just another Ballad that the rest of the hypocrites like him sing and pretend it has meaning? I mean in all seriousness why we talk about it exactly why we they talked about it. I love the music of the Beatless and I dont deny the sincerity of him trully beleiving what he is saying. I believe he meant everything he said. But no matter how good natured it is - it is not real. This is why people mock the songs I mean Imagine and Give peace a chance to this day. Nobody can take somoene so detached from politics and war seriously when they really think they are doing something REALLY INSPIRATIONAL. John Lennon was a talented musician. He could make pop songs like nobody else. but I think even if he sang about shit- those songs woul be popular. This stage of his life - All I can say is - its full of delussion. I bet if he never been shot he would lmao at this remembering that period. The bed thing was really really lazy bs. Im staying in bed not going to Hawai for World peace. I mean that is some heavy delusion. When u think about it - you cant even be sure if he was mocking the world with that or something. I think this is yoko's stupid crappy influence over him. Actually I really think this is Yoko's influence over him. Doing absurd things in the name of something. Defenetely Yoko's BS. He was not ahead of his time. This was bizzare and self aggrandizing behavior. Look at me Im John Lennon I do this for world peace... There is not even symbolism behind it. Planting a tree, donating money to peacekeepers, even giving New Year greeting signed by him to UN soldiers would make way more sense. There is a reason why nobody likes Yoko Ono. She is really a messed up creature. I think she really messed up John to some degree in a negative way. Also I dont like the reporter being snobbish.
Intimidation doesn't matter. The '60s was the budding of this (Gloria's) establishment. Gloria and the rest of media weren't intimidated because they knew they controlled the narrative. They don't anymore, however.
Why would anyone be intimidated by Lennon? He was a drug addicted hippie. He was also controlled opposition. And yoko was his Handler. The beatles were a psyop created by Tavistock.
"Oh, do you want: nice, middle-class, gestures, for peace, and intellectual manifestos, written by a lot of half-witted intellectuals, and NOBODY READS THEM!" -#JL
@HP-tm4kjSo what? She's still talking bullshit here, coming across as if her only goal in life was throw napalm at some kids in Vietnam while yelling, "MURRICAAAA!!!" While at the same time being absolutely aggressive and condenscending towards anybody refusing to join her in licking Nixon's boots.
She seems to be saying why do something symbolic when you could be doing something practical. But she's talking to a musician. He's not going to negotiate any peace treaties on behalf of the UN. He's going to write some songs and direct the public's attention to some conflicts and I think that's enough. There's always such in fighting in the liberal left and it never achieves anything.
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Unfortunately, Gloria is the more credible one in the discussion because she was a war correspondent and experienced what they’re talking about firsthand. In her eyes, John and Yoko were foolish and naive - which maybe they were.
And yet her entire attitude toward the interview was itself self-aggrandizing. That accent of hers says everything about her disposition: elitist to the core.
Tell me one thing she said that was a good point All she did was insult them and willfully misinterpret everything they said Gloria was just trying to make a name for herself off their backs. Total narcissist
@@Jmith-su3ze Yes a total narcissist whose journalism and reporting contradicted what the military were claiming were "body counts" in Vietnam, and the rising drug use amongst the soldiers. Which could have gotten her in a shitload of trouble, cuz it was about her ego. Yeah.
@@Jmith-su3ze " @JohnSmith-su3ze 7 months ago Tell me one thing she said that was a good point" "What does John Lennon know about Protests." It's a very good question.
Beatles fan but i'm with the journalist. At the same time, this reminds me a bit of the film The Trial of the Chicago 7, where there is a debate about the importance of "real action" against "cultural revolution" actions. At the end, both are important for different reasons and need to go together.
He and the other 3 helped to save my life. I woke up when they stole John from us. I became an activists, after 5 years of apathy. We have the squares like her around today.
Ask John Lennon a silly question?... "Are you grown up?", you'll get an equally silly answer from 1 of the gutsiest most ingenious human beings of all time... "Yes I'm 29!", good on ya John!, God bless you. 🙏
it's annoying how people say ''john lennon was angry'' well people made him angry by asking dumb questions and by not listening and sometimes by being outright rude to him or yoko. 🙄
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There are so many people commenting here that are missing the very point, and the lady doing the interview (and failing miserably at it) didn't get it either. John Lennon being a Beatle, being someone who had everything in life one could ask for (fame & fortune) did something that so many others then and today did not do. He stood up for what he believed in, and although some of it was "weird" did what he could to spread a message of peace & love. He could have done anything. ANYTHING! Yet he chose to do what he could to promote peace, and what's wrong with that? I've read here this reporter was doing interviews and reporting to the world from the front lines in Vietnam, and did some charity work there too. Great! However; she was doing (mostly) her job. John Lennon, was a musician, not a reporter, so how can you put him down for doing something most musicians (if not all) never did. What did Mick Jagger do for peace? What did Roger Doltery or Pete Townsand do? Write and perform a rock opera that had nothing to do with peace. What were any of those world famous musicians doing to promote the peace movement? Not even the other Beatles got involved. So how can anyone knock what he was doing? Gloria Emerson was rude, mean, condensending, and down right rotten to them, and then proves just how unprofessional she was by walking out on them! Shame on her! She could have treated them both with so much more dignity, and gave them credit for what they were attempting to do and help spread the word vs just ripping on them like that!
Maybe she was jealous that they got so much attention when she had actually been at the front line. The Lennons were using their fame for good. John was right. she hadn't grown up.
Exactly, it’s ironic how confrontational she is about how to promote peace. She could have easily been more civil, especially since they both want the same thing, but instead it seemed like she just wanted to put him down.
To be confronted by someone who didn't agree with him was a great shock to John. During this time he was surrounded by sycophants who agreed with anything he said. He was living in a bubble and had no real understanding of the world outside. Gloria was right to call him out and question his commitment to the peace process. Time proved she was right....within a year all his enthusiasm was gone .
@@DanAir No, she wasn't right in the slightest. It was an idiotic thing to say. The war in Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with how happy American soldiers were or how happy American protestors were for that matter. It's a statement so asinine, so apolitical and so divorced from reality, as well as condescending to the protesters who are actually taking the risks and putting their bodies on the line, that it functions as hard proof of Gloria's assertion that they have no understanding of the issue and are living in Never-never land.
This interview unfortunately went south when Yoko starting talking at the end about making it jolly. Up until then John was holding his own with Ms. Emerson.
3 years late but I want to say I dont think he really was holding his own. Think he got backed into a corner as Gloria was totally dominating that argument. It was evidently clear that Gloria was verbally, maybe even factually, beating john with a stick
@@ronnie9077This Gloria, whoever she is (history seems to have rightfully forgotten about her), has no point at all here. All she manages is to get across as both one of Nixon's bootlickers *AND* highly arrogant and condenscending towards anybody who refused to lick Nixon's boots along with her. Some people here in the comments are saying she and John would have the same goals and are only trying to achieve it via different means, but this "interview" only makes her look like her only goal in life was to throw napalm on some kids in Vietnam while waving a flag and yelling, "MURRICAAAAA!"
@@ChristopherGray00 Um ....... If a musician told their main audience of 18-24 year olds, you know that demographic that most politicians would love to grab up for a lifetime if they could, that that politician was no good, untrustworthy, or not fulfilling their obligations in office, do you think that musician's fan base would listen? Do you think they'd listen to that musician before they listened to that politician. A musician doesn't have to stop politicians. A musician only has to stop the people voting for them. And you think Artists and Musicians have no power over Politic, or Religion. You're undervaluing the power of Art to influence Society. Gloria Emerson did not underestimate that power at all, she knew its potential to guide youth, opinion, and votes. She was just talking to a "Pop" artist, whose main impetus for writing songs with McCartney, was to get swimming pools. Money. That's why you see Harrison turning the charity event using music, as a working tool for assistance. Because he did it right. He hit all forms of media to push that concert, the live album, the film, and when media changed, that concert was available in all the updated technology. Since 1971, that concert has perpetually funded UNICEF for over 50 years. And the people that say he did it "wrong" are fools. He did it right. If you get chased by the US for taxes, when something clearly says it's a charity, you've become a target. Especially if you're on FBI lists of investigation (which he and Lennon both were). Especially if you're naming the US as the main culprit as to WHY they were so many people dying and refugee in Bangladesh. Because the USA funded the Pakistan army that did that shit to millions of people. And Harrison blatantly said this in advertising / promotion of the concert. She's exasperated with an Artist who is making comical gestures imploring peace and change, but not making any real sacrifice, or enduring any hardship or punishment for doing so. Almost making it "entertainment purposes only." Muhummad Ali protested the Vietnam War or serving in it, and he most definitely got punished for doing so. That's why she's giving Lennon a hard time. Because he's having an easy time being a "commie loving hippy."
@@DrTomoculus this. If not for you I would have had to comment something similar. I like Lennon a lot, and I think he had good intentions and purpose with these peace movements. But in this video and argument particularly, Gloria was indubitably right
I agree with you. John was not that great a person. He was so rich but let his ex-wife Cynthia penniless. She was so broke that Paul McCartney came to her aid.
Gloria Emerson was brave, but to me she just comes across as pompous and confrontational, she doesn’t listen to Lennon, nor let’s him speak. And the way she mispronounces Peter Pan’s “Never Never Land” as “Nether Nether Land” is simply hilarious.
@HP-tm4kj "He started all the bull crap we see from Hollywood and the music industry." I disagree. We (left/right) can't start anything. We have no choice. Since USSR collapsed and US war slaves lost their main enemy, the Money Makers said: "If you don't want to fight in big World wars, you will fight with yourself on your own territory". So our russian war slaves started war with their former USSR partners on their own territory, and USA started to prepare for civil war. Why you americans are upset about Hollywood, when so many people will die soon? Who cares about music industry?
John will be remembered for being a great musician and activist. Yoko made a great point of the “unhappy killers” (but in this day and age, there are way too many cases of happy killings). John was smart and witty throughout. I love this man.
I've met Yoko Ono. I was working behind the bar at a festival she was endorsing, some weird stuff and she was signing copies of her book. She was friendly, seemed like a nice lady. Daft as a fucking brush.. but nice.
@@Greenballoffire They still think she broke up the Beatles so everything she does or says is stupid. I find Yoko to be very intelligent and doesn't get enough credit.
@@Hester-l6kIt’s all Paul fans that don’t care to see how it was Paul who pushed John, George and even Ringo away with his need for control and his songs that at the end both John and George didn’t care for. Ringo left first because Paul kept wanting to record his drum parts, George left after because Paul was telling him what to play and John left, temporarily perhaps like George said, because he wanted a change. Paul then told the press and sued the other 3. Where is Yoko in any of this?!
Gloria Emerson was imbedded with a Marine assault unit in Vietnam. She exposed war crimes and. was a tough lady. She comes across bad here but she was the real deal.
Just before Bush's Administration attacked Afghanistan and then Iraq I saw a pickup truck with a bumper sticker that read "Give War A Chance". Well like it or not we did just that and we recently saw how that turned out after our troops exited Afghanistan.
Her trans atlantic elitism is funny. She might have some points on Lennon, but she doesn't actually deserve to stick her thumb up her nose against Yoko when all she did to earn her position in society was to be born in privilege.
I actually respect Emerson, and she’s right, John and Yoko were kind of full of their own shit. But she was incredibly disrespectful in this interview. If I were John, I would have walked right off the set.
John Lennon was born into a lower class family and became one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. He was murdered in 1980. Gloria Emerson was born into a wealthy Manhattan family. She committed suicide in 2004.
Honestly, I think you failed at whatever point you were trying to make. This is just disgusting. So what if she was born into a wealthy family, she was a war correspondent, of course she didn't see eye to eye with John Lennon and his idea for the protests. Not to mention at this point, John was a millionaire. Jeez, can't people disagree. Bringing up her suicide, you're absolutely revolting.
"Emerson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2004. Unable to contemplate a future in which she could not write, Emerson committed suicide on August 3, 2004" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson#Background_and_personal Her death is tragic and the reasons of her suicide are "comprehensible". By the way, she was right and brave to denounce Lennon's hypocrecy toward peace & love, his acts don't reflect a wise or peaceful man at all. He is a tremendous musician but humanly I have doubts. We all have issues in this world, Lennon included.
Beatles and John fan here! When John said he’s saving lives for being in bed IS ridiculous. Sometimes we gotta admit he thought way too much of himself.
Thousands of lives were saved by the peace movement.. people have said they didn't go because of the things Lennon and others said and did. If he hasn't done stunts like go to bed for peace not as many people would have been discussing the issue. As he notes, the Beatles were being followed and photographed and written about every day and he might as well do something like that... It was easier to have the press come to his room than to organise press conferences in a town he didn't live in and he was under even more scrutiny because he had just got married and there isn't much room in a hotel bedroom so the idea of saying we are having a bed in was a way of joking about the fact that they would both be in or in the bed or in the room. Sure it seems a naive kind of stunt but these things are born organically and he didn't necessarily expect it to be discussed several years on. People were dying in the war there and then and history has sided with those who spoke out.
Lots of love to you as a Beatles and John fan, I'm just airing my thoughts rightly or wrongly
@@Rich-ng3yy I'm sure many beatles fans refused to serve in the war because of what lennon said, but Thousands? Especially when you could be prison-ed for refusing to serve? I'm not so sure about that.
Also a beatles fan. Love his accent here as well. Gloria Emerson was also a tough lady, she was diagnosed with parkinsons in her old age and chose to shoot herself and die instead of having to be helpless and a burden.
Ironic how both lennon and gloria here died of a gunshot, but in extremely different ways.
Im sure he could have done so much more specially with his power in songs like freda peeple or give peace a chance , it was dangerous to say that and make a whole generation sing a long , but also think that Yoko made him believe he only could do good and inflated his ego making him not analyze his actions and words , ending with false promises , if he had stopped consuming so many hard drugs and left his mommy issues with yoko , he could have had so much political and social power
@@gregh5061 The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, four of the most famous people at that time. I think you're understating (not by your own fault) their significant because of how different the world is now. They had an absolute hold on the world for 7 odd years. Look at the turnout after Lennon's death. It wasn't hundreds. It was thousands, hundreds of thousands from America and Britian alone. Many many more from the rest of the world.
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John: about 29 🤣🤣🤣
Lennon was a bright man and he had a wit.
@@jamesanthony5681 He was lazy, entitled, and believed every fart was significant. He had beliefs and refused to do the work.
@@loosilu Lazy? Refused to do the work? Do you mean by not going out in the streets and actively protesting against the war as others were doing, rather than laying in bed and conducting a 'bed-in for peace' which even he came to realize was silly? He had that drug charge and was at risk of being deported so he had to be careful. Not sure whether he was on Nixon's 'enemies list.'
@@loosilu Hope that's a bait, mate.
@@jamesanthony5681 He described himself as the laziest man in the world. He slept all day and did next to nothing. That's from his own mouth.
It was corroborated by multiple people that he basically refused to get off his ass for any reasons.
That’s a rarity; an interviewer walking out on the interviewee.
He deserved it.
@@loosilu How so? She was putting him down the whole time.
@@geraldobrien7323 She was right. He obviously wasn't used to people pushing back at him.
@@loosilu She was being rude the whole time interrupting him and insulting him when he was trying to calmly explain
@@evanpowers6045 did you not listen to the argument..?
this whole interview makes me laugh, best part John saying "about 29", it felt like a scene from the office HHAHA
John is the original Jim
(Looking to camera)
"Can you believe this woman?" He thinks.
I thought the same thing, he said " I'm 29"
Might be his IQ
@@hansnoor9637 how silly of you.
That's a stupid thing to say.
Did I change your mind?
Neither did she.
John is Dwight, Paul is Jim, George is Ryan, and Ringo is Michael
Feels like I’m watching the office
Lol
John Lennon was apparently a wee fruit cake
When his misses starts talking that load of shit 😂😂😂
The worst thing about the Beatles was the dementors
🤣 it's even filmed like that too!
Gloria Emerson is one of the most important journalists of her generation, mainly because she's one of the first female journalists to cover wars/conflicts, and insisting being sent to these places, rather than regulated to the "fashion tips" sections of newspapers. She was a trailblazer and game changer for women in Journalism.
For those thinking she hasn't brought up any good points to Lennon about his campaign :
If a musician told their main audience of 18-24 year olds, you know that demographic that most politicians would love to grab up for a lifetime if they could, that that politician was no good, untrustworthy, or not fulfilling their obligations in office, do you think that musician's fan base would listen? Do you think they'd listen to that musician before they listened to that politician.
A musician doesn't have to stop politicians. A musician only has to stop the people voting for them.
And you think Artists and Musicians have no power over Politic, or Religion. You're undervaluing the power of Art to influence Society. Gloria Emerson did not underestimate that power at all, she knew its potential to guide youth, opinion, and votes. She was just talking to a "Pop" artist, whose main impetus for writing songs with McCartney, was to get swimming pools. Money. That's why you see Harrison turning the charity event using music, as a working tool for assistance. Because he did it right. He hit all forms of media to push that concert, the live album, the film, and when media changed, that concert was available in all the updated technology. Since 1971, that concert has perpetually funded UNICEF for over 50 years. And the people that say he did it "wrong" are fools. He did it right. If you get chased by the US for taxes, when something clearly says it's a charity, you've become a target. Especially if you're on FBI lists of investigation (which he and Lennon both were). Especially if you're naming the US as the main culprit as to WHY there were so many people dying and refugee in Bangladesh. Because the USA funded the Pakistan army that did that shit to millions of people. And Harrison blatantly said this in advertising / promotion of the concert.
She's exasperated with an Artist who is making comical gestures imploring peace and change, but not making any real sacrifice, or enduring any hardship or punishment for doing so. Almost making it "entertainment purposes only." Muhummad Ali protested the Vietnam War or serving in it, and he most definitely got punished for doing so.
This is why she asks him "What do YOU know about Protests."
Because the kind of protests she's witnessed, that she's been reporting on, she's seen, have people getting beaten to death, or hauled off to prison, or never seen again. People with picket signs getting their heads bashed in by police, or shot at, tear gassed. What does John Lennon know about any of that, sitting in a bed getting room service. Are these things a joke to you is her response to him. There are people sacrificing their lives to make changes so that more lives don't get lost, and you're sitting in bed. This is why she called him a fake. He calls her a snob for being high horse about things. She tells him what you're doing is BENEATH YOU, you're BETTER than this. Where she is, is where HE should be. Not doing Barnum & Bailey circus antics.
That's why she's giving Lennon a hard time. Because he's having an easy time being a "commie loving hippy."
Agreed. Absolutely.
John Lennon makes a true Jedi.
Spot on....... Couldn't have put it better myself
This whole attitude seems ridiculous. It makes the suffering of the "giver" more of a focus than what they actually give. Seems like she wants John Lennon to suffer more than she wants him to make any kind of difference.
@@bravetherainbow the point is, that she was a renowned political Journalist with many years of experience in her field and knew full well that john wasnt making any difference and wouldn't make any difference, and she was right.
I must say, the best line in this was "Mrs. Lennon, we're boring each other" as she packs up to leave.
Hehe
Now that was rude and gosh. It was insulting. You can conclude an interview without being insulting
@@beasleybrother1 Yoko thought people cared about her opinion. She was wrong. John earned the respect he had, she was piggybacking.
She was rude the whole interview to them
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This was really recorded in 1969? Looks like it was recorded in the late 90’s.
Yeah in 1969
Lennon has a late birthday so this was probably 1970.
It wasn't recorded. It was filmed. It's called 'film'.
@@zerne7887 Lennon had his hair cut in early 1970, so this was most likely filmed in November or December 1969.
It was shot on film, not tape
“We can’t all afford to be neurotic.” Love it.
John Lennon gets irritated with Gloria Emerson
"I'm a weirdo saving up to be an eccentric"
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*AN ADVER-TISING CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE!* John said calmly.
2:18 LMFAO HER FACE WHEN JOHN ADDS THAT IN I CANT
Gloria Emerson (May 19, 1929 - August 3, 2004) was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent. Emerson received the 1978 National Book Award in Contemporary Thought for Winners and Losers, her book about the Vietnam War. She wrote four books, in addition to articles for Esquire, Harper's, Vogue, Playboy, Saturday Review and Rolling Stone.
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She also shot herself when she found out she had Parkinson’s aged 75. Uncompromising and dark I would say
And I really like it when John says “well I’m sorry if you like you’re old moptops dear and you thought I was typical and you liked hard day’s night but I’ve grown up, but you obviously haven’t.”
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It's a fascinating interview, I'd love to see the full version if one is available. What strikes me is that both John Lennon and Gloria Emerson wanted the same thing namely peace but disagreed on how best to achieve it. I can see why Gloria Emerson was annoyed with Lennon viewing his campaigns as narcissistic and ineffectual given his enormous celebrity status. However, there is no doubt that Lennon's actions influenced a huge number of people and continue to inspire people today. Gloria Emerson did the hard graft of visiting Vietnam, reporting from the frontline and exposing the horror of war from the victims' perspective for that she should be admired. Interestingly, Emerson believed that if Lennon had gone to Vietnam and visited the troops with his message of peace he could have stopped the war.
This sums it up beautifully. The Lennons certainly did some good in their efforts to advertise peace. But I think Emerson by this point had seen so much suffering in Vietnam and had seen so many risk their bodies and livelihoods to oppose the war in the US that she could not put aside her disdain for PR efforts. Had she simply said to the Lennons, here is something else you can do if you really want to see the war end and put it to them quite seriously, who knows how history might have differed.
I think Gloria Emerson had an agenda. Anyone who is against war would never attack with such venom someone who is just advertising for peace. What does she care? To interview Lennon just to call him out as a phony is very contradicting for some women who claims to be pro peace.
@@joaquindelarosa1215 She did have an agenda of ending the war. A reading of her work and her book about the era would show that. But she is condescending toward the methods espoused by John and Yoko, thinking of it as a lot of talk and little action. She was short-sighted in the way she treated John and Yoko here, certainly. Some of that came from condescension toward those representing the generation below hers.
This interview shows both approaches to achieve peace have failed miserably lol. Showing people the reality of war, and making them "jolly" about world peace is equally useless. At the end of the day, everyone is out for themselves and there will always be a clash of self interests and egos among people who hold different values and interests = never-ending conflicts and wars. Such is the pathetic state of human nature and nothing ever will change as long as humans walk the earth.
@@joaquindelarosa1215 What does she care? Why attack someone with such venom?
Because she said Lennon's actions were self aggrandizing and vulgar, and she believed his actions - his silliness - undermined legitimate protests that were happening on the streets and on college campuses.That's why she cares. That's why she attacked with such venom. And Lennon deserved every bit of that venom with his ridiculousness.
This is sounding like my mom and dad arguing over her talking a bit weirdly to his guests
and yoko is the annoying child
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"Have you ever seen someone kill someone with a smile on their face?"
Yes. Yes I have. They apparently enjoyed it very much.
doesn't happen
@@DAEDRICHHHH-TUCKER19Psychopaths literally get pleasure from killing dude...
I think they are called psychopaths !
@@BenNewton-c6z Richard Widmark in Kiss of death made a
name for himself pushing a lady
in a wheelchair down a stairway
while smiling and laughing like
a psycho (the part he played)
@@DAEDRICHHHH-TUCKER19 Sweet summer child.
I would cut off my left hand for more interviews on this level…
GET THE KNIFE
Read ‘Winners and Losers’ by Gloria Swanson to understand how much she knew about war. She was a reporter in Vietnam “in the sh*t” and then spent considerable time roaming around the country interviewing people affected by the war. Garry Wills dismissed the book in a totally soulless review, but he was a desk jockey when it came to proximity to the war, about which he pontificated at great length.
also she was an fbi informant of that era, mingling with the peaceniks---sneaky spy---. but probably not mentioned in her auto-bio.
You mean Gloria Emerson
Gloria Emerson, not Gloria Swanson (Swanson was an actress).
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Lennon asked calmly
This looks like a video from a digital camera in the early 2000s
It's a bad telecine/uploaded to TH-cam at a low resolution.
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To those unaware, Gloria Emerson had been a foreign war correspondent for almost two decades by this point. She was by no means an establishment reactionary. The year after this interview she returned to Vietnam to write about the immense unhappy changes happening in the lives of the Vietnamese people which wasn’t widely covered by the press, who usually only covered the military side of things. By the end of her time there she had comforted countless young American soldiers in their final moments while John and Yoko sat in a bed. She was an incredible woman and she possessed wisdom clearly lacking in those two, as they were living in their own out of touch world at this point in time. Love John but he did not take criticism well.
Tbf John Lenon and Yoko did this to promote world peace and anti-war. They sat on the bed and got a lot of coverage for it. Don't trivialise what they achieved.
You’re take is a good example of someone who underestimates the massive influence that art can have. Nobody is gonna give a fuck about her article. It doesn’t matter how paramount you may think your message might be - presenting it to the public is the hard part. It’s like everything else in life . You may have a great idea but executing and producing that idea is the hard part. If you want to change the publics attitude, the way to do it is mass influence. The Beatles had an influence so large that it rivaled political figures and several facets of the media
He did more for people and peace than she ever did. That’s a fact. She sounds noble - he was is a legend who shaped culture in immeasurable ways.
She was and always will be a nobody.
@@alexgraham6845 LMFAOOOO delusional
Yoko puts her points across like an elementary school counselor would
And I love it
You know it's so funny because back in the time of the 70s practicality was the only way anything could get done...to advertise in a video that only one person would watch would have sounded absurd. Do we know that's incorrect? Of course, TH-cam. One small act repeated millions of times has a major impact., I have to say that John Lennon was very insightful. I'm not one of those people to love everything John Lennon did.
Infact I thought this was crazy untill I thought about it. In this idea he had a great insight and was ahead of his time. . Also I got it! He wasn't saying that he was going to save the world by staying in bed he just said I have a honeymoon. I can take it and go to France and see the Eiffel tower or I can do something that will look unusual that people will want to ask me about it and I will tell them.im doing it for peace. That's yours ahead of its time . I see people say they cringe at the time when they saw them in bed but I have to say it's a brilliant idea. Ahead of his time. If we all did our daily routine and claimed to do it for a cause that topic would be much more on people's thoughts ...like us still talking about John Lennon and Yoko ono staying in bed...For what? Peace...still talking about peace peace.... we think John Lennon should have done this big event but he was going to go on a honeymoon either way....so why not avertise peace .. so he gave up going to Hawaii for a week or ten days I'm relaxed in order to advertise Peace by staying in bed. I think that constitutes a good thing and anybody should not have the gall ro mock that?
Well actually I think it's stupid. Yes we talk about it but not in the way he intended to talk about. it came out exactly like the lady thought it would.
He got lots of criticism about it and yes he was a hypocrite talking and singing about peace.
Has his song do anything except being a tearjerker? Just another Ballad that the rest of the hypocrites like him sing and pretend it has meaning?
I mean in all seriousness why we talk about it exactly why we they talked about it.
I love the music of the Beatless and I dont deny the sincerity of him trully beleiving what he is saying. I believe he meant everything he said. But no matter how good natured it is - it is not real. This is why people mock the songs I mean Imagine and Give peace a chance to this day.
Nobody can take somoene so detached from politics and war seriously when they really think they are doing something REALLY INSPIRATIONAL.
John Lennon was a talented musician. He could make pop songs like nobody else. but I think even if he sang about shit- those songs woul be popular.
This stage of his life - All I can say is - its full of delussion. I bet if he never been shot he would lmao at this remembering that period.
The bed thing was really really lazy bs. Im staying in bed not going to Hawai for World peace. I mean that is some heavy delusion. When u think about it - you cant even be sure if he was mocking the world with that or something.
I think this is yoko's stupid crappy influence over him.
Actually I really think this is Yoko's influence over him. Doing absurd things in the name of something. Defenetely Yoko's BS.
He was not ahead of his time. This was bizzare and self aggrandizing behavior. Look at me Im John Lennon I do this for world peace...
There is not even symbolism behind it. Planting a tree, donating money to peacekeepers, even giving New Year greeting signed by him to UN soldiers would make way more sense.
There is a reason why nobody likes Yoko Ono. She is really a messed up creature. I think she really messed up John to some degree in a negative way.
Also I dont like the reporter being snobbish.
That makes sense
Lennon was just fkn godlike here
1:58 made me laugh so much
You realize that even before John did this interview people like him did protests like that.
This should be a scene in a Lennon biopic
Gloria was certainly not intimidated by John. 99% of people were intimidated by him.
Intimidation doesn't matter. The '60s was the budding of this (Gloria's) establishment. Gloria and the rest of media weren't intimidated because they knew they controlled the narrative. They don't anymore, however.
Why would anyone be intimidated by Lennon? He was a drug addicted hippie. He was also controlled opposition. And yoko was his Handler. The beatles were a psyop created by Tavistock.
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Yeah, with an education. !
@@Gretny lennon nvr graduated from college. He dropped out.
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 Life, not some piece of paper. ! You can't go to college and get a degree in common sense. !
John was a Blinding Light of Hope in the World , how we so Much Need His Spirit Today , Back by Popular Demand PEACE☮☮✌✌
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"Oh, do you want: nice, middle-class, gestures, for peace, and intellectual manifestos, written by a lot of half-witted intellectuals, and NOBODY READS THEM!" -#JL
@HP-tm4kjWhat kind of a reasoning is that? "I'm American, so I got a get-out-of-jail-for-free card" or what?
@HP-tm4kjSo what? She's still talking bullshit here, coming across as if her only goal in life was throw napalm at some kids in Vietnam while yelling, "MURRICAAAA!!!" While at the same time being absolutely aggressive and condenscending towards anybody refusing to join her in licking Nixon's boots.
I actually like this interviewer. She made some points.
She seems to be saying why do something symbolic when you could be doing something practical. But she's talking to a musician. He's not going to negotiate any peace treaties on behalf of the UN. He's going to write some songs and direct the public's attention to some conflicts and I think that's enough. There's always such in fighting in the liberal left and it never achieves anything.
@notThatBad411 which drugs ? 😂😂
@@liverpoollad1271 thats what im wondering!
@@cardiffwilly then he simply lacked imagination and vision
Name one good point she made
One of john’s best looks
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If only he were here today
Same goals, different roots. Start to attack each other. Human behaviour at it's best 😅
Couldn't have said it any better.
Sad really.
She attacked them, they didn't attack her
because the roots do matter. by that logic no one should disagree with malcolm x.
0:52 LMAO sorry but that response to Yoko was so satisfying. She channelled George and the wider public in that moment
people were so reluctant to listen.
Unfortunately, Gloria is the more credible one in the discussion because she was a war correspondent and experienced what they’re talking about firsthand. In her eyes, John and Yoko were foolish and naive - which maybe they were.
And yet her entire attitude toward the interview was itself self-aggrandizing. That accent of hers says everything about her disposition: elitist to the core.
Agreed
Tell me one thing she said that was a good point
All she did was insult them and willfully misinterpret everything they said
Gloria was just trying to make a name for herself off their backs. Total narcissist
@@Jmith-su3ze Yes a total narcissist whose journalism and reporting contradicted what the military were claiming were "body counts" in Vietnam, and the rising drug use amongst the soldiers. Which could have gotten her in a shitload of trouble, cuz it was about her ego. Yeah.
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Tell me one thing she said that was a good point"
"What does John Lennon know about Protests."
It's a very good question.
Beatles fan but i'm with the journalist. At the same time, this reminds me a bit of the film The Trial of the Chicago 7, where there is a debate about the importance of "real action" against "cultural revolution" actions. At the end, both are important for different reasons and need to go together.
He and the other 3 helped to save my life. I woke up when they stole John from us. I became an activists, after 5 years of apathy. We have the squares like her around today.
Ask John Lennon a silly question?... "Are you grown up?", you'll get an equally silly answer from 1 of the gutsiest most ingenious human beings of all time... "Yes I'm 29!", good on ya John!, God bless you. 🙏
it's annoying how people say ''john lennon was angry'' well people made him angry by asking dumb questions and by not listening and sometimes by being outright rude to him or yoko. 🙄
no, gloria had a legitimate point here.
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There are so many people commenting here that are missing the very point, and the lady doing the interview (and failing miserably at it) didn't get it either. John Lennon being a Beatle, being someone who had everything in life one could ask for (fame & fortune) did something that so many others then and today did not do. He stood up for what he believed in, and although some of it was "weird" did what he could to spread a message of peace & love. He could have done anything. ANYTHING! Yet he chose to do what he could to promote peace, and what's wrong with that? I've read here this reporter was doing interviews and reporting to the world from the front lines in Vietnam, and did some charity work there too. Great! However; she was doing (mostly) her job. John Lennon, was a musician, not a reporter, so how can you put him down for doing something most musicians (if not all) never did. What did Mick Jagger do for peace? What did Roger Doltery or Pete Townsand do? Write and perform a rock opera that had nothing to do with peace. What were any of those world famous musicians doing to promote the peace movement? Not even the other Beatles got involved. So how can anyone knock what he was doing? Gloria Emerson was rude, mean, condensending, and down right rotten to them, and then proves just how unprofessional she was by walking out on them! Shame on her! She could have treated them both with so much more dignity, and gave them credit for what they were attempting to do and help spread the word vs just ripping on them like that!
condescending
Well said
Maybe she was jealous that they got so much attention when she had actually been at the front line. The Lennons were using their fame for good. John was right. she hadn't grown up.
Exactly, it’s ironic how confrontational she is about how to promote peace. She could have easily been more civil, especially since they both want the same thing, but instead it seemed like she just wanted to put him down.
3:22 onward, that is what frightened them enough to get John rubbed out.
Exactly...👍🏻
To be confronted by someone who didn't agree with him was a great shock to John. During this time he was surrounded by sycophants who agreed with anything he said. He was living in a bubble and had no real understanding of the world outside. Gloria was right to call him out and question his commitment to the peace process. Time proved she was right....within a year all his enthusiasm was gone .
Good observation.
.... You do know the amount of hate thrown against them during this time period? It's the stuff of legends.
I agree with you absolutely.
Rubbish. Although he was or became an idealist he was always that Liverpuddlian realist.
"Have you ever seen someone killing someone with a smile on his face?" Talk about naivety
She was fundamentally right though. Just because it sounds simple doesn't make it wrong.
@@DanAir There are many people who have killed with a smile on their face haha
@@Theakker3B but were they fundamentally happy people? That's the point she was making.
@@DanAir No, she wasn't right in the slightest. It was an idiotic thing to say. The war in Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with how happy American soldiers were or how happy American protestors were for that matter. It's a statement so asinine, so apolitical and so divorced from reality, as well as condescending to the protesters who are actually taking the risks and putting their bodies on the line, that it functions as hard proof of Gloria's assertion that they have no understanding of the issue and are living in Never-never land.
@@allconsuminghat- We were talking about the quote, not about the wider context so yes, she was right.
Sad that John was murdered and Emerson killed herself.
She had relatively long life and killed herself age 75 because she was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
This interview unfortunately went south when Yoko starting talking at the end about making it jolly. Up until then John was holding his own with Ms. Emerson.
3 years late but I want to say I dont think he really was holding his own. Think he got backed into a corner as Gloria was totally dominating that argument. It was evidently clear that Gloria was verbally, maybe even factually, beating john with a stick
@@ronnie9077This Gloria, whoever she is (history seems to have rightfully forgotten about her), has no point at all here. All she manages is to get across as both one of Nixon's bootlickers *AND* highly arrogant and condenscending towards anybody who refused to lick Nixon's boots along with her. Some people here in the comments are saying she and John would have the same goals and are only trying to achieve it via different means, but this "interview" only makes her look like her only goal in life was to throw napalm on some kids in Vietnam while waving a flag and yelling, "MURRICAAAAA!"
Imagine calling a Beatle a "Fake"
@notThatBad411 What tf are you smoking?
@notThatBad411 stfu with your fake rumor
*internal screaming*
I mean the Beatles weren't perfect people.. I love john but he definitely needed people to disagree with him at times lol
People were so apathetic after the "failure of the 60's"
Ironically he was killed by a killer with a smile on his face.
You're savage. Yoko is a prick.
that was my immediate thought when she said that.
@@bluemanchestercity Cynthia was ugly, but Yoko was just a total downgrade
You're so right. It was ironic. That's why the hippy love peace bullshite doesn't work.
@@ProfessorKenneth he actually not right at all, Mark David Chapman was an extremely unhappy person.
John was a young guy. He came into a lot of money all at once and everyone wanted a piece of it.
This reporter needs to be in the Hall of Fame
For being a forgotten old hag.
For being a terrible person berating someone for not changing the world and being some magician that can just stop all politicians, sure.
@@ChristopherGray00 Um .......
If a musician told their main audience of 18-24 year olds, you know that demographic that most politicians would love to grab up for a lifetime if they could, that that politician was no good, untrustworthy, or not fulfilling their obligations in office, do you think that musician's fan base would listen? Do you think they'd listen to that musician before they listened to that politician.
A musician doesn't have to stop politicians. A musician only has to stop the people voting for them.
And you think Artists and Musicians have no power over Politic, or Religion. You're undervaluing the power of Art to influence Society. Gloria Emerson did not underestimate that power at all, she knew its potential to guide youth, opinion, and votes. She was just talking to a "Pop" artist, whose main impetus for writing songs with McCartney, was to get swimming pools. Money. That's why you see Harrison turning the charity event using music, as a working tool for assistance. Because he did it right. He hit all forms of media to push that concert, the live album, the film, and when media changed, that concert was available in all the updated technology. Since 1971, that concert has perpetually funded UNICEF for over 50 years. And the people that say he did it "wrong" are fools. He did it right. If you get chased by the US for taxes, when something clearly says it's a charity, you've become a target. Especially if you're on FBI lists of investigation (which he and Lennon both were). Especially if you're naming the US as the main culprit as to WHY they were so many people dying and refugee in Bangladesh. Because the USA funded the Pakistan army that did that shit to millions of people. And Harrison blatantly said this in advertising / promotion of the concert.
She's exasperated with an Artist who is making comical gestures imploring peace and change, but not making any real sacrifice, or enduring any hardship or punishment for doing so. Almost making it "entertainment purposes only." Muhummad Ali protested the Vietnam War or serving in it, and he most definitely got punished for doing so.
That's why she's giving Lennon a hard time. Because he's having an easy time being a "commie loving hippy."
@@DrTomoculus this. If not for you I would have had to comment something similar. I like Lennon a lot, and I think he had good intentions and purpose with these peace movements. But in this video and argument particularly, Gloria was indubitably right
I agree with you. John was not that great a person. He was so rich but let his ex-wife Cynthia penniless. She was so broke that Paul McCartney came to her aid.
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This looks so good for 1969. Almost looks modern in a way.
He was very witty
John puts forward a great argument. Yoko ruins it.
I love you John but when he said "When I get there ill sing it with them....when I get in" I though that was hilarious.
3:30
Too bad once he got in, he was never able to get out.
Gloria Emerson was brave, but to me she just comes across as pompous and confrontational, she doesn’t listen to Lennon, nor let’s him speak. And the way she mispronounces Peter Pan’s “Never Never Land” as “Nether Nether Land” is simply hilarious.
2:11--"Yes, folks."
he had a reason to feel angry here,she wasn't listening at all to him or to yoko.
This is the internet in 2021. Two people doing absolutely nothing, arguing with each other about which is doing more.
so true
I don't think you understand what they're arguing about or what people on the internet are usually arguing about lol
oh you can think. Isn't that nice.
Lennon and the reporter probably did more in ten years than the average person did in a lifetime
She was doing a lot. Not nothing. Better read about her.
John was spot on and dirrectly to the point. He knew what he was talking about and belived passionately in his believes.
@HP-tm4kj "He started all the bull crap we see from Hollywood and the music industry." I disagree. We (left/right) can't start anything. We have no choice. Since USSR collapsed and US war slaves lost their main enemy, the Money Makers said: "If you don't want to fight in big World wars, you will fight with yourself on your own territory". So our russian war slaves started war with their former USSR partners on their own territory, and USA started to prepare for civil war. Why you americans are upset about Hollywood, when so many people will die soon? Who cares about music industry?
beliefs
They still don't listen, John.
KEEP IT REAL!
#wazrom
Killers are unhappy people. Yes.
How is she a killer?
2:09 Savage
There's nothing quite like British condescension.
John was called out on his naivety and publicity stunts but he rather enjoyed it. Yoko’s comment at the end just shows her a$$.
John will be remembered for being a great musician and activist. Yoko made a great point of the “unhappy killers” (but in this day and age, there are way too many cases of happy killings). John was smart and witty throughout. I love this man.
Yoko's closing point was idiotic and I'm glad Gloria walked out as she said it. I would have too. It's completely detached from reality.
Yoko's statement was so idiotic is was actually jaw dropping.
He's remembered for doing dumb stunts and calling it activism.
at least he did something @@loosilu
@@aporue5893 But he could have done something real.
First time being on Yoko's side, and it feels liberating
truly
I was about to say the same thing
Find book “YES YOKO ONO” - her art is magnificent.
1:56 LMFAO! Yoko made her really seethe. She was ready to pull hair.
History has been on John's side, however naive our parents thought he was at the time.
What have you grown up to?
oh 29 (he still has that wittiness)
Really shows how much more conservative everyone else is now.
I've met Yoko Ono. I was working behind the bar at a festival she was endorsing, some weird stuff and she was signing copies of her book. She was friendly, seemed like a nice lady. Daft as a fucking brush.. but nice.
Are brushes daft?
Yeah. Pretty daft
@@jareroken9127 thanks dude :)
@notThatBad411 you sound completely insane
@notThatBad411 lol yeah I do, and it's not the bollocks you are talking...
no hate, yoko sounded stupid 💀
Woodstock was a big protest against a war and I think John would’ve wanted to join them
I can't stop laughing when Yoko speaks😂😂
Why?
@@Greenballoffire They still think she broke up the Beatles so everything she does or says is stupid. I find Yoko to be very intelligent and doesn't get enough credit.
@@Hester-l6k Absolutely agree with you.
@@Hester-l6kIt’s all Paul fans that don’t care to see how it was Paul who pushed John, George and even Ringo away with his need for control and his songs that at the end both John and George didn’t care for. Ringo left first because Paul kept wanting to record his drum parts, George left after because Paul was telling him what to play and John left, temporarily perhaps like George said, because he wanted a change. Paul then told the press and sued the other 3. Where is Yoko in any of this?!
“What have you grown up to?”
“Oh 29!”
4:47 The most striking words and the ones that sum up this video are in the final seconds: "She didn't hear anything". Simple as that.
In contemporary times, they'd be bunching each other right now and it would go viral.
You can really see the toll on Lennon face and body on Heroin. About killing with a smile that's what the USMC taught me . Semper Fi 83 to 90.
Gloria Emerson was imbedded with a Marine assault unit in Vietnam. She exposed war crimes and. was a tough lady. She comes across bad here but she was the real deal.
Love u John my scouse hero
Just before Bush's Administration attacked Afghanistan and then Iraq I saw a pickup truck with a bumper sticker that read "Give War A Chance". Well like it or not we did just that and we recently saw how that turned out after our troops exited Afghanistan.
Her trans atlantic elitism is funny. She might have some points on Lennon, but she doesn't actually deserve to stick her thumb up her nose against Yoko when all she did to earn her position in society was to be born in privilege.
Lmao yoko says one sentence and the interviewer dips tf out 😂
I much prefer hard days night john lennon.
What a difference 5 years makes!
Yeah me too
She’s so low vibes she just don’t get it
Yoko had so much peace that it warded off the evil interviewer
Love how when Yoko starts talking it means the conversation is over. The "points" she was making were so moronic at the end.
would you care to explain "so moronic" ... to yourself?
@@Alejandro388 Means dumb.
@@Ben-vt8ne I would say stupid
@@rioverde1597 Fair enough.
You will upset the nutjobs on this thread with common sense.
I actually respect Emerson, and she’s right, John and Yoko were kind of full of their own shit. But she was incredibly disrespectful in this interview. If I were John, I would have walked right off the set.
4:01 do you know how works??
Typical reaction of anyone listening to Yoko...walking out of the room.
Infp vs ISTJ?
Cringe
Possible
John definitely was E, not I. The two I's in the band were George and Ringo.
John Lennon was born into a lower class family and became one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. He was murdered in 1980. Gloria Emerson was born into a wealthy Manhattan family. She committed suicide in 2004.
state the point
The woman committed suicide and that’s awful, what is your point? You fucking psycho fuck
Wtf is wrong with you..??
Honestly, I think you failed at whatever point you were trying to make. This is just disgusting. So what if she was born into a wealthy family, she was a war correspondent, of course she didn't see eye to eye with John Lennon and his idea for the protests. Not to mention at this point, John was a millionaire. Jeez, can't people disagree. Bringing up her suicide, you're absolutely revolting.
"Emerson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2004. Unable to contemplate a future in which she could not write, Emerson committed suicide on August 3, 2004" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson#Background_and_personal
Her death is tragic and the reasons of her suicide are "comprehensible". By the way, she was right and brave to denounce Lennon's hypocrecy toward peace & love, his acts don't reflect a wise or peaceful man at all. He is a tremendous musician but humanly I have doubts. We all have issues in this world, Lennon included.
As a young John Lennon fan, I thought John was right. Now that I’m 28 I think that Gloria was right, even though I’m still a Lennon fan.
She just didn’t get it.
She did tho but if u dare question John Lennon his little fan boys come running defending him even if he’s crazy
The interviewer just went and done a piers morgan🤣🤣🤣🤣
both sides of the same coin - practical and symbolic activists for justice eventually get snuffed out by the same elite powers that be