All We Are Saying-: The John Lennon 1980 Playboy Interviews Part 3 of 3 (Glass Onion podcast Ep 89)

We complete our latest Lennon journey with the conclusion of my analysis of some of the more telling quotes from the series of interviews conducted in September 1980 for Playboy magazine by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
This episode contains a lot of clips from the original audio of the interviews and focuses mainly on John's comments about who wrote what in the Lennon-McCartney catalogue, including John#s analysis of the deeper meanings behind the song 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.
I have also included (by kind permission) an extended segment from the excellent 'Yesterday and Today' podcast that deals with a certain seafaring adventure that John undertook in June 1980 and which would have a profound effect on him.
Finally, there's a little bit of music from your humble host...
Enjoy!
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episode links
The full available audio from the interviews
• 1980 09 ...John Lennon...
Rubber Soul film (about the 1970 and 1980 John Lennon interviews)
• RUBBER SOUL
The Hours and Times (recommended film)
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The 'Yesterday and Today' podcast
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'Between The Lines' (the John Lennon album that never was)
• Video
David Whelan's interview with Howard Hughes
• David Whelan Live on T...
'Jealous Guy' documentary (Lennon and Chapman)
• Video

[@gailg2327]

Lots of interesting bits here in this lovely video. Thank you Antony and all best until next time.

[@glassoniononjohnlennon6696]

Thanks Gail

[@LucyLennon20]

John Lennon was blessed. He gave all he had and made the world a better place during his short time here. And the after-world (heaven) is a better place with him now.

[@glassoniononjohnlennon6696]

Cosmic!

[@LucyLennon20]

@@glassoniononjohnlennon6696 😉wink

[@CartersRemasters]

Antony, your views are lennon are perfect!

[@kellypeterson2625]

Great job on the songs as well!

[@edmund184]

15:00 ironically he really did get that youthful inspiration back just before he died

[@glassoniononjohnlennon6696]

Arguably. We've spent hours on the show trying to puzzle that one out

[@kellypeterson2625]

Loved it. Glass onion is my absolute favorite Beatles podcast

[@stevenrufini3515]

I love that singles had a john track and yoko track listen the snow is falling,dont worry kyoko all that is great! Cold turkey a real account of withdrawal!john and yoko wer honest in their songs totaly!

[@sellincourtrd]

Thanks, really enjoying it so far ( still listening to it). What is the truth of Julia's death then, how did he misrepresent it?

[@staceykeeley4219]

From memory the only thing I can think of is that John was always under the impression the driver that killed his mum was drunk. He was an off duty policeman and he was also a learner driver so he shouldn't have been driving alone without a qualified driver. He wasn't drunk though. His name is Eric Clague if you want to have a little Google about him it's very interesting. Accidentally killing Julia had a massive effect on Clague for the rest of his life.

[@anthonygreen7063]

Lewisohn, of course, covers the issue very comprehensively and very well in Tune In.

[@sellincourtrd]

@@staceykeeley4219 Interesting, thanks Stacey! 👍

[@glassoniononjohnlennon6696]

He didn't willingly misrepresent it, probably just confused it with the fact that Bobby Dykins had had an accident in his car while drunk on the same stretch of road just weeks earlier (Dykins was represented by the Epstein family lawyer, you couldn't make it up!). Clague ended up as a postman, including delivering fan mail to Paul's house in the early days of Beatlemania. As Mr Green said below, Lewisohn covers it well, as he generally does with everything

[@MrGrahamknight]

what is the version of look at me at the end of the video please?

[@glassoniononjohnlennon6696]

That's by me (Antony), done on very cheap equipment about 10 years ago 😁. Was it any good?

[@MrGrahamknight]

yes it's great - was looking for it as an individual video on youtube, maybe you should put it up!

[@MrGrahamknight]

found it - thanks