John Lennon's Last Interview (December 8th, 1980)

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  • This interview was supposedly recorded 12 hours before John Lennon's assassination. The photo used in the video was taken on the same day, and the person on the left of the photo is one of the interviewers (Dave Sholin). This interview took place at the Dakota Apartments (Lennon's home at the time) and was done by multiple interviewers, including Dave Sholin, Laurie Kaye, and Bert Keane.
    Transcription: drive.google.com/file/d/1OBkk...
    - I got help with the transcription from two web pages:
    www.beatlesarchive.net/john-le...
    theanswersattheend.blogspot.co...
    Source of interview: www.beatlesarchive.net/john-le...
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  • @ArmanBaig
    @ArmanBaig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    1:02:23
    “And I consider that my work won’t be done until I’m dead and buried, and I hope that’s in a long, long time.”
    -John Lennon, December 8th, 1980.

    • @erictseitz
      @erictseitz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As he was unknowingly living his final hours of life.

  • @scottlarmore5038
    @scottlarmore5038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Man, he seemed so chilled out in this. You can tell he really did mellow out. Really was a damn shame with what happened to him, and for the stupidest reason.

    • @scottlarmore5038
      @scottlarmore5038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Let's Go Brandon the reason he was chilled out? Or the reason he was murdered?

    • @Jantonov1
      @Jantonov1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Bob Insane man with a gun?

    • @MilesColtrane.
      @MilesColtrane. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, he died for literally the stupidest reason ever. The jerk who shot him did it just because he wanted to become famous, he didn't even dislike John or had anything against him as a person. What a fucking shame, imagine being shot to death when you have your whole life ahead of you just because someone wants to make the headlines

  • @WinkDaMan07
    @WinkDaMan07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    If only we can go back in time to save John

    • @gostrum1
      @gostrum1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cher had a song about that

    • @kennethkilleen8758
      @kennethkilleen8758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I do think about that what if. Lennon was to massive to live. His mystic is part of his legend.
      No-one in music has ever done what the beatles and Lennon are and were.

    • @d.collins3819
      @d.collins3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think the same thing. Also for many others, including my family. I think about it all the time. Not to worry because when Christ comes again (Judgement Time) he would raise the dead back to life.♥.

    • @wyverntheterrible
      @wyverntheterrible 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Save him from Yoko?

    • @wyverntheterrible
      @wyverntheterrible 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@d.collins3819 Well he's not going want a practising Luciferian like John Lennon anywhere near his Kingdom is he, and quite right too. Lennon can burn in Hell.

  • @viamargutta5I
    @viamargutta5I 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    You can hear it in John’s voice he was so excited for the 80’s.

    • @leonardsalinas2002
      @leonardsalinas2002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He was ready to dominate the whole 80’s decade if
      John Lennon hadn’t died I feel he would’ve been impressed by the culture of the 80s like the birth of MTV and the songs that use synthesizers and gated reverb like “In The Air Tonight” and “Running Up That Hill”

    • @AgusVilla1.
      @AgusVilla1. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@leonardsalinas2002 Live Aid 85' would have been The Beatles long-awaited reunion, so sad it didn't happen :(

  • @Danjoker.
    @Danjoker. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I just feel that we're living in the wrong timeline. John should still be with us.

    • @tyronewhitehead3123
      @tyronewhitehead3123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      John was so forward thinking. I always feel he’s still here it’s as if he never went away

  • @TheMerryPup
    @TheMerryPup 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    He was so positive and excited about the future. It’s heartbreaking toward the end of the tape when Yoko says, “Is the car downstairs?” They we’re off to the studio and before they got in the car John signed a copy of Double Fantasy for the creep who would kill him a few hours later. Can’t go back and prevent it from happening but it’s hard not to have those thoughts.

  • @christophermurphy3261
    @christophermurphy3261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    It’s really spooky. That interview ended around 5pm - you hear yoko asking about the car to go to the studio. At that point they walked out and he was photographed signing the album for his assassin.

    • @damianbroderick3913
      @damianbroderick3913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tomiviitanen9099 Correct- sickening isn't it?

    • @JoelyPera
      @JoelyPera 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is so eerie. How can this be real life? All of the things that happened to him, good and bad, almost seem orchestrated. So sad.

    • @roddyboethius1722
      @roddyboethius1722 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was really stupid not to have bodyguards. He was talking to lunatics and surely knew that one of them was going to get him

  • @jorgevazquez1818
    @jorgevazquez1818 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Thank you for uploading this timeless interview....surreal hearing him talk so much about life the very day it was to end...so insightful and of course, tragic and sad.

  • @rodrobson
    @rodrobson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I lost my Dad a couple of months before this interview and was already depressed. Even more Gutted when I found out John Lennon had been shot dead. I never did like the 1980's and the real reason was having John taken from us in a unnecessary way. The Beatles greatest ever group in my opinion

    • @danielbrown1724
      @danielbrown1724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amen brother
      Sorry to hear about your dad. I lost mine in ‘95. Life is precious, learn and experience as much as you can while you’re here and take that to the next life where you will continue to evolve.
      Sorry to sound too New Age’y

    • @rodrobson
      @rodrobson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@danielbrown1724 you are very kind, thank you my friend and take care

    • @Monkofmagnesia
      @Monkofmagnesia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For a son to lose a father is very painful. Since you kist youts so close to John's death, your heart must havegone out to Sean and Julian more than the rest of us.

    • @jamesdean9183
      @jamesdean9183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I lost my dad in 2016 after a short battle with brain cancer. I was 12 at the time and it really does take a long time to recover from losing a parent

    • @crmay72
      @crmay72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamesdean9183 So sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad mine years ago and my Mom 4 years ago. Life is precious.

  • @arricammarques1955
    @arricammarques1955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    John's honesty & sharpness are sadly missed. Hard to believe it was 41 years ago.

  • @jetibby
    @jetibby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I think why John Lennon was so loved by most people was how down to earth and brutally honest he was. He finally found peace at this time and it's beyond tragic what happened that night. Yoko seems actually nice in this interview as well. I have a feeling the Beatles would have reunited for Live Aid. RIP John the world misses you.

    • @fishface123ism
      @fishface123ism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree! It is so fun to listen to these interviews and so interesting to see how controversial he was, and for Peace. I heard the interview by Shaun Lennon with Elton John a couple of years ago on JL's 80th year, and it was moving. Elton John said he was sure that if he hadn't of been killed, he may have won the Nobel Peace Prize and it was something I never thought of but it sure makes a lot of sense. I don't ever really like to hear anything about his murderer, and I am a True Crime buff, but that one just makes me sick, such a bid for attention, and stealing of Lennon's brightness. I also appreciate ALL the music and The Beatles and what they each evolved to. I also watched Get Back, (got me the expensive Disney subscription just for it!) and was so moved at the part where John asks the others if they heard Martin Luther King Jr's speech and he said something like "it was sheer poetry" and he speaks of how beautiful it was and says something like MLK "could be president".

    • @grouchomarx2276
      @grouchomarx2276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Quantum leap, change his plans for that night and employ security.
      We miss you John xx

    • @jaimesirgany4776
      @jaimesirgany4776 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's kinda like Memorial Day! There was no one more conservative than John and George.

    • @pimposki6232
      @pimposki6232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jaimesirgany4776 "conservative"? there are many words to describe john lennon but i wouldn't say "conservative" was one of them

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I disagree. He had a terrible reputation in Liverpool.
      He was badly behaved; with Julian and Cynthia. Used to beat the latter.
      Americans are seemingly; out of touch with this aspect.
      Yoko controls him here; as she always did. He had a weak personality.
      He's very uninteresting in this interview

  • @ExclusiveLM
    @ExclusiveLM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I lost it when John was asking when was this interview going to be on because he wanted to hear this interview on the radio. He didn't know that 12 hours later he would be dead way before this interview was put on the radio.

    • @vicvega3614
      @vicvega3614 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This interview ended around 5pm, in almost 6 hours John was dead

  • @fshoaps
    @fshoaps 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Going back to this every once and while is nice. John in conversation, in the middle of the day, sounding good, acting cool, and talking from the heart.

  • @dcore64
    @dcore64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Really miss this guy. 1:02:15 makes you just want to burst into tears.

    • @oldsensei8350
      @oldsensei8350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hear ya

    • @RockyRacoon5
      @RockyRacoon5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh man

    • @justyndelbridge7467
      @justyndelbridge7467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My god, that is devastating…

    • @terryhorne2582
      @terryhorne2582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hi from Liverpool. Been in the place it all started the last few weeks ( The Casbah). Its getting made into a hotel, but the club where John & Paul painted the ceiling black with stars is still there, as is lots of memorabilia. Fascinating. The owner ( Pete Bests cousin) has some great stories about the lads. His dad was called Aspinall & was the Beatles roadie in the beginning & travelled with them all over the world. Anyway just to let you know that John is still missed here & his memory lives on. God bless. 👍

    • @dcore64
      @dcore64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@terryhorne2582 Hi Terry, cool story. Hope to see England some day.

  • @matthewmcnelis7058
    @matthewmcnelis7058 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    They were so optimistic at this stage of there lives. Bittersweet but beautiful memories.

  • @teebadd6927
    @teebadd6927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    “Talking to people my age. The people who survived the 60’s-who survived the war, the drugs, the politics, THE VIOLENCE ON THE STREET.”
    At about the 1:13 mark

  • @jacquesbazinet2172
    @jacquesbazinet2172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    We never know when we will wake up in the morning and it will turn out to be the last day of our life.

    • @evabelanger5178
      @evabelanger5178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Man, that's depressing.

    • @ericleon6482
      @ericleon6482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So true, we can only hope there is a tomorrow.

    • @lovinglili5204
      @lovinglili5204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well yes, but I don't think we should take ourselves too seriously, otherwise this thought can totally be depressing and haunting
      Just live every second, enjoy the moment, realize we are bigger than our bodies and personal history

    • @vicvega3614
      @vicvega3614 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericleon6482 tomorrow never knows

  • @silva7493
    @silva7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Such a beautiful interview. It was the day following my twenty-fifth birthday.😔 It's amazing how fresh it feels still. Terrible irony.

  • @bojon0307
    @bojon0307 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love this. Dave Sholin was kind enough to send me a tape of the entire interview, as produced as “The Man, The Memory” in 1981…but I always wanted to hear the original uncut. This position made me smile.

    • @danielbrown1724
      @danielbrown1724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re lucky mate 🤟🎸
      Fantastic interview isn’t it!?? He’s so relaxed and clearly engaged in every question. He had no idea what he was walking into that day.

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@danielbrown1724 Yes. So tragic and devastating.

  • @Taffafilms
    @Taffafilms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    What a dude! Just listened all 1 hour and 47 min of a soul leader, someone that was focusing his music and lyrics into mankind, trying to make this world a better place. They don't make them like him anymore...so it seems...John if you are listening...you are still a bright light man....

  • @andrewstubbs822
    @andrewstubbs822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A shame that John didn't check up a little more on what Yoko was doing in the office. She was busy ensuring Julian was largely scrubbed out of Lennon's will - including the return of sentimental father-son letters.

  • @tbeau6663
    @tbeau6663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    John has now been gone for longer than he was here for.

  • @cjc2
    @cjc2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    “…My work won’t be finished until I’m dead and buried. And I hope that’s a long long time.” 1:02:20😢

  • @ianng5098
    @ianng5098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    They were so happy.
    He was so happy.
    Had a very healthy and calm life style (which he deserved and chose wisely to live after all the work he'd done).
    May you rest in peace John.
    Always be missed and warmly remembered.
    His spirit will keep embracing and inspiring us who identify with him.

  • @iambeen4310
    @iambeen4310 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    So weird to think Chapman was probably only a few hundred yards away waiting for him at the time this was recorded. So terribly sad. I think John was the happiest & most content he'd ever been at that point and that animal took all that away.

    • @smallie210
      @smallie210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Calling him an animal is an insult to animals

    • @josephwright6154
      @josephwright6154 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Animals only kill for food,

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would have given you a like but you wrote the murderers name. You did exactly what the murderer wanted- notoriety and fame over 40 years later. SMH

    • @stevenmarshall8529
      @stevenmarshall8529 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kazabushy I hate the murderer but have never brought into the idea that he “wanted fame”. If this was true, then why not plead “not guilty” and have the spotlight in what would have been the trial of the century?

    • @DanielDias33333
      @DanielDias33333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow that's crazy

  • @clearfield2009
    @clearfield2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    This tape is under circulated. Hearing John so future focused is heart breaking but also inspiring. This is the first tape where Yoko is almost on equal footing and comes through as a full person, not just the woman who broke up the Beatles. My outrage and grief over both the violent death of John and then the violent attack on George that led to his relapse and his death is beyond words. It is a loss for the world that we lost them both when they had so much more life to live. "All you need is love" may sound like a simple lyric but in fact contains the answer to every single crisis on the planet. Love is all you need.

    • @janemarlow
      @janemarlow 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree with you, beetles 1 of the best bands ever

    • @kakyoindonut3213
      @kakyoindonut3213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think yoko is not to blame on beatles breakups

    • @DJKinney
      @DJKinney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ah "under circulated." The new zoomer tic after "underrated."

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DJKinney 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣I thought the exact thing!! I'm sure this coined word will be overused soon enough!

    • @instantkarma8777
      @instantkarma8777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Under circulated? You are 12? Did you just find out about this interview? It was mainstream media 4 decades ago!

  • @apollomemories7399
    @apollomemories7399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interview ended around 5 p.m. Shot at 10:50 p.m. Pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. News announced at 11:30 p.m. local time.
    I heard the news on the 6 a.m. news on the BBC, which is 1 a.m. New York time. I was devastated.

  • @woohooboy
    @woohooboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    The sense of ordinary life routines that John is describing in this interview undercuts just how abrupt things can change in an instant. He (along with everyone else) were not to know the horrific events that would unfold that very night....

    • @richardsoderkvist6383
      @richardsoderkvist6383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's so interesting to hear John Lennon talk about his life family life career Sean and Yoko and Yoko's comments. It's such a tradgety what happened later very sad. A real nice interview with them.

    • @roberttalbot6397
      @roberttalbot6397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He sounds very happy and positive,he lost his life a few hrs after,very sad

    • @roberttalbot6397
      @roberttalbot6397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When he signed chapman's album double fantasy,he asked him was that all he wanted(this meant,I hope you are not here for somethink else,suspicious, when he see him again for a few seconds that night,John's thoughts came back,he must ov thought that bloke is here again, Paul gorash mentioned this in his interview, Johns instinct to think like that, John was correct and feeling vunerable, sad day that was

    • @damianbroderick3913
      @damianbroderick3913 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@roberttalbot6397 Don't know why he didn't just get back in the limo and drive thru the gate instead- nothing normal about someone getting an autograph and then stil being there SIX hours later!l

    • @roberttalbot6397
      @roberttalbot6397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@damianbroderick3913 yeh,but John was very insure as a person, when he signed he said do you want anything else, he meant hope you are not up to somethink, so when he seen him again that night, he thought same thoughts about him. John liked to be open with people so that's why he walked in. It should've been limo. There and back.

  • @mikehutch5941
    @mikehutch5941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I could listen to him all day long Thanks for the upload much appreciated :)

  • @opencurtin
    @opencurtin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It’s hard to believe he’d be dead with in the hour after this interview..

  • @melloone611
    @melloone611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    There’s only a small handful of well known people, whose death, set the entire human race on a completely deferent trajectory.
    John was one of them..

    • @charleshall7061
      @charleshall7061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Everything changed since then

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Melodramatic nonsense.

    • @KingdomCooperFan
      @KingdomCooperFan ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely one of the biggest deaths of the century in terms of impact within popular culture, and yeah John himself was pretty much mythologized to an unrealistic degree as a consequence. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that it changed the course of human history or something.

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KingdomCooperFan Agreed. Plus young people mostly under 18; don't know who he was and who he played in. There are exceptions of course.
      Here's s'thing about his myth......
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      th-cam.com/video/G3AV-kPhZ2I/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/FjoIaJw_P_Q/w-d-xo.html&feature=share
      Here's a piece about corruption in the music industry.
      th-cam.com/video/NBDoTihztls/w-d-xo.html&feature=share

    • @misslb4800
      @misslb4800 ปีที่แล้ว

      Slight exaggeration there mate! 🤣. There are people on this planet who has never heard of John Lennon, and people who just don't care he got killed.

  • @fishhookism
    @fishhookism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Even with the friendliness and politeness, you can hear the force in his personality.

  • @adrianyoung5979
    @adrianyoung5979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    How sad to think that whilst John was taking part in this interview, just a short distance away his murderer was preparing himself to kill John.

    • @d.collins3819
      @d.collins3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't worry. That monster who murdered John will get his comeuppance if he hasn't had it already. I do believe in Karma.

    • @wezlo8733
      @wezlo8733 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@d.collins3819 I really hope so. I’d love to have 5 mins in a room alone with him

    • @CooManTunes
      @CooManTunes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wezlo8733 Ok, savage.

  • @uapnewdiscoveryimages
    @uapnewdiscoveryimages 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    He was soooo far ahead of his time, just listen how he talks about healthy eating, advertising, child’ development, junk food and psychology

    • @luislaborda4347
      @luislaborda4347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was just thinking about the same... I'm listening to this 41 years later and seems he is talking about nowadays.

    • @havrisen6620
      @havrisen6620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was pretty common stuff lol. And was NOTHING new.

    • @FcknAwsm
      @FcknAwsm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He talked about it because he was obsessed with his own weight and had an eating disorder :/ If he really cared about health he wouldn't be chain smoking cigs

    • @Jantonov1
      @Jantonov1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@FcknAwsm He died that day. Cut him some slack, dude.

    • @jeffjohnson5544
      @jeffjohnson5544 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FcknAwsm Nobody is perfect. We all have vices.

  • @ProfessorKenneth
    @ProfessorKenneth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It's frightening to think later that night he would be gone...smh...scary notion

    • @nicholas70paul
      @nicholas70paul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very shocking.

    • @roddyboethius1722
      @roddyboethius1722 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was clueless. Biggest rock star in the world and had no security

  • @Monkofmagnesia
    @Monkofmagnesia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "We've been together longer than the Beatles were."
    Sadly, Yoko is one of those people who say, "You know" all of the time, and John had to live with that, you know.

    • @troofveritas8233
      @troofveritas8233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It’s funny how John Lennon and Kurt Cobain (who remind me of each other a good bit, Kurt idolized John) both married totally shitty people lol.

    • @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712
      @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well actually you know means "ano" in Japanese. It's a filler word.

    • @instantkarma8777
      @instantkarma8777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It just means eh! Or the Japanese for "ne". It bothers you that much?

  • @dakodahowe8106
    @dakodahowe8106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You cannot question John Lennon.

  • @georgeconroy9908
    @georgeconroy9908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The world is changed so much. He wouldn't recognise it.

  • @MarcLuber
    @MarcLuber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really great interview. Too sad how that day ended.

  • @MultiJoe84
    @MultiJoe84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That’s what John was wearing when he died 😔

  • @Lennonlover06
    @Lennonlover06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    'We feel like this is the first album' - J Lennon. Such a tragedy so much was lost

  • @pandaroc1
    @pandaroc1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a great interview. How I wish everyone would hear John’s and Yoko’s ideas and visions. If we all collectively practiced “LOVE” the world would be a better place.

  • @nickheaven1024
    @nickheaven1024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    We need him here now more then ever.

  • @WilliBond0007
    @WilliBond0007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    .... thanks for uploading this. It will probably be hard to listen to. I watch that Mind Games video of his and consider him to be THE greatest of virtually any entertainers for what he did outside of his music. He was killed for peace as much as the Hinckley's/Bushes took a shot at Reagan a year later. I think the worst part of his being shot was that he wouldn't be there for Sean.

  • @curtisandersongayle7435
    @curtisandersongayle7435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You can listen to this just to hear someone who was great and in his element. His wit and humanity come out. I agree with everyone commenting on this post...if only he was here with us today. If only. If only.

  • @P1mpMyBr1de
    @P1mpMyBr1de 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    While he was doing this interview there was a wacko walking around near the Dakota with the Catcher in the Rye and a hand gun
    The biggest loss in music history!

  • @dollhaus1
    @dollhaus1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    John was genius. He once said , The Beatles was just a band, that's all. We're just human. Since his 1980 interview the planet hasn't evolved. Dissolving in 2021. 118:00 and 130:00 are my favourite parts.

    • @mr.smithgnrsmith7808
      @mr.smithgnrsmith7808 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turn off your tv/media….set yourself free from the constant lies and propaganda….commie leftist satanic horse shit

  • @cancerandaids3822
    @cancerandaids3822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If you told John that he was gonna die later that day he would think your crazy

  • @danielbrown1724
    @danielbrown1724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I can’t believe this was done the day he died 😔
    I know his spirit is back home but it still hurts like hell knowing what he’s walking into later that day
    Side note, these questions were awesome. You could tell they both were excited to discuss every single topic. Cheers for the upload 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💜💜💜

    • @danfarrelly2732
      @danfarrelly2732 ปีที่แล้ว

      After this interview , he went downstairs to the street , where his car was suppose to be waiting for him , but it wasn’t there . He stood on the sidewalk when chapman approached him and asked him to sign his album . John signed it and asked chapman “ is that all you need “ , and chapman nodded his head yes . John and Yoko hitched a ride to the studio with these two interviewers , 5 hours later , they returned to the Dakota where chapman murdered Lennon . Haunting listening to this .

  • @BD12
    @BD12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    1:47:30 "that's always the hard thing about signing things" damn, John. Damn.

  • @jv-ep2tc
    @jv-ep2tc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    keep in mind that Yoko was having affairs and had recently visited Sam Green's family home and tried to get him to marry her. within a month she'd have Havadtoy moved in.

  • @thrutheveil74
    @thrutheveil74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    To me the most important lesson John Lennon gave us, is to believe in oneself. Do not give up your dreams, whatever they are for someone else. Never mind fear. Fear is what brought us to our current predicament.

    • @kevinburke6055
      @kevinburke6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And he taught us to never neglect ur child like he did with Julian.

  • @valeriataylor8337
    @valeriataylor8337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    he absolutely would be at LIve Aid. I miss what we never saw

    • @Gour80
      @Gour80 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I also think the same Valeria. Several groups regrouped for this event, such as Queen and Led Zeppelin. So the possibility that the Beatles had performed at Live Aid, in 1985, made perfect sense.

    • @damianbroderick3913
      @damianbroderick3913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gour80 Queen didn't really split up, just Freddie doing one 'bad' solo album. The Who and Led Zep were without their legendary drummers of course.

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Gour80 What? Queen had just finished The Works Tour which went for about 10 months. But according to you they had broken up.🤣

    • @johnp515
      @johnp515 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kazabushy He thought the "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie was fact lol

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnp515 Yes I know. It's so sad to me that fictional historically inaccurate biopics are even allowed to be made. It sickens me that Brian and Roger gave the go ahead to producers for this rubbish making Freddie look like a lazy, uncaring toad with a laughable American accent. The Queen concerts reinvented were not even remotely factually correct. Nothing was factually correct. That doesn't matter it seems.

  • @mgoldman60
    @mgoldman60 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    JL making expresso in 1980. He was even ahead on the coffee curve! ☕️

  • @Godess1971
    @Godess1971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Hes telling his life before it ended. I was 9 i remember our music interruption on the radio with news of his shooting.

  • @cpesq.5884
    @cpesq.5884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The ending was chilling, as he talks about liking to sign autographs for people

  • @DukeofUke61
    @DukeofUke61 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Working from home. He was ahead of the curve there, too.

  • @debbieramsey-hanks3757
    @debbieramsey-hanks3757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing. Thank you.

  • @dennisparkin1971
    @dennisparkin1971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    He sounded happier than ever.

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think happier, but more excited than the usual.

    • @NickSBailey
      @NickSBailey ปีที่แล้ว

      they usually go together

  • @mikeypie24
    @mikeypie24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    After listening to this interview at the end. John believed in open borders. Wonder if he would feel the same way today. Rip John

    • @CooManTunes
      @CooManTunes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      John was stupid, in several of his beliefs. 'Open borders' being one of them.

  • @markriella9998
    @markriella9998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    And all day The Grim Reaper kept checking his watch...Great Interview,he will be remembered for a long time along with the other Beatles.

    • @d.collins3819
      @d.collins3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't worry. That monster who murdered John is probably being haunted by what he did. We are only human after all.

  • @brianpetersen2364
    @brianpetersen2364 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The only solace any of us can take from this interview is that John was in such a good emotional place when he left, cheers John lad you left a great legacy x

  • @Clare-tea
    @Clare-tea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a wonderful interview. 💜💜💜💚💚💚

  • @MrPhilyg
    @MrPhilyg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Heartbreaking to hear how much he loved being a Dad to Sean. He sounded so...content!

  • @alexanderdelacruz9249
    @alexanderdelacruz9249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    so sad and sorry his life was cut short by that monster. 😔

    • @roddyboethius1722
      @roddyboethius1722 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was too stupid to realize you can't be famous and live in society. Famous people are all targets for murderers

  • @ag358
    @ag358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Geraldo rivera , friend of John's , said that when john was in a room full of people he totally captivated them with his wit and intellect. He definitely would have been a force in the world for unjust causes.

  • @RoyJenkins777
    @RoyJenkins777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've never cared either way about Lennon but after listening to this he seems like a down to earth guy. What a shame he was taken so early . God Bless

  • @harold3165
    @harold3165 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's crazy how long it's been since John's death. He was 40 years old when he died and it's been 42 years since it happened. Paul and Ringo have spent more of their lives without John than they did with John.

  • @tybarker5038
    @tybarker5038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Crazy how relevant a lot of what he said can even apply 40 years later. Very humble, intelligent, down to earth guy. And as he’s talking about being optimistic for the future, some asshole comes and shoots him… RIP Mr. Lennon

  • @jjbrown9265
    @jjbrown9265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember his day.....I’ve forgotten so many other things, but I remember this day.

  • @paulthompkins4150
    @paulthompkins4150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's so unsettling that while this interview was going on there's was a deranged coward waiting just outside to kill him.

  • @knockedoutloaded279
    @knockedoutloaded279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    He wud have made the 80s amazing

    • @ethanpatterson96thagoat15
      @ethanpatterson96thagoat15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats what i was thinking today!

    • @weswesyallforalltimegreats9498
      @weswesyallforalltimegreats9498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is true. Look at
      George & Paul
      🎶.Say.Say.Say 🎶
      🎶I got my mind set on You!! 🎶
      Great comment!! Thank you!!
      ✌ and Love. (WES)

    • @WinkDaMan07
      @WinkDaMan07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He was scheduled to work on a session in January for Ringo’s Stop and Smell the Roses album. They were in the middle of the Milk and Honey sessions, getting ready to put the finishing touches, and possibly start recording the next album after that. They even had a world tour planned for 1981! Everybody says The Beatles would’ve reunited at Live Aid in 1985. So sad….

    • @damianbroderick3913
      @damianbroderick3913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@WinkDaMan07 Y's Walking on Thin Ice was being done that day. There were demos for M and Honey at that point

    • @kazabushy
      @kazabushy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He did make the 80s amazing.

  • @ponzo1967
    @ponzo1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    John's passion and intelligence makes everything he talks about seem interesting. He's so analytical in choosing his perceptions and opinions then excellent at expressing those things just like his song writing. The level of detail in which he takes in information then expresses it could explain why he is such an excellent artist. He's just an interesting person period

  • @Sam-gw5pl
    @Sam-gw5pl 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He didn’t want his son watching the adverts.

  • @davidlewis6670
    @davidlewis6670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    We all should live in love and peace.:-))

  • @artiemilano378
    @artiemilano378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    1:03:11, I don't think I ever heard John cry before. Not even tremble in his own voice with overfilled emotion. When he almost struggles to say how he didn't realize how much he needed her in his life, you can hear the overwhelming emotions of realization and love overcome him. That can't be just me, you can almost feel him most likely looking in Onos eyes after he declared that statement. Wow

    • @robertknutar1803
      @robertknutar1803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From around 1:02:30 it sounds to me like he's holding in a burp or something like that, and that's why he sounds weak. Still, what he says is powerful, i don't mean to be disrespectful.

    • @bencallahan8645
      @bencallahan8645 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mighty boog

    • @nachopablo
      @nachopablo ปีที่แล้ว

      Its amazing how in 5 seconds of interview you cna throw away every nonses people have said about yoko, fuck them and love yoko

  • @lepanhman
    @lepanhman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He seemed so happy ,found his centre as it were .Damn that Chapman he took so much away from all of Us & killed a living legend

  • @tyronewhitehead3123
    @tyronewhitehead3123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whenever I listen to interviews of John it’s all most as if he’s in the room today it’s as if he’s never gone away I get that with George

  • @CarlosBacardi
    @CarlosBacardi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “We survived. We’re still here!” around the hour mark. Such a shame.

  • @johnjames945
    @johnjames945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's almost as if he is writing his epitaph squaring things up so to speak. Getting so much off his chest and answering old rumors before he ultimately runs out of time.....

  • @antoniosantorini9355
    @antoniosantorini9355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What you talk about the producer of Hard Day's Night said come up with the song for the movie and they came up with it in 15 minutes

  • @NicholasDosSantos-ww9sc
    @NicholasDosSantos-ww9sc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love in the beginning of this interview that John does Bert and Ernie since one of the guys name’s in the interview is Bert.

  • @josetunez9584
    @josetunez9584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Why there's no time machine?!! 😭

  • @elfinia
    @elfinia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I thought his last interview was with Andy Peebles . After Andy took a flight back to the UK and I think while still on the plane, heard about John's murder :-(

  • @TaiyouHKabra
    @TaiyouHKabra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's sad that during the last half an hour of this interview John seems concerned with projecting a positive view of the future (as opposed to Orwell or similar authors like him), just half a day before being killed by a mad man.

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES
    @TELEVISIONARCHIVES 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had some old VHS Camcorder video of John walking in the central park about 2 days before he was shot. Sold it to a collector. Not sure what he's going to do with it

  • @timmckeown1313
    @timmckeown1313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Like is so fleeting. One day you’re here, and the next day, out of the blue, you’re not. Enjoy your life, folks.

  • @whatthejim
    @whatthejim 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rest in peace and peace and love to you John Lennon!!!☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️

  • @twistedgamer9167
    @twistedgamer9167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow I was suspicious about the date and when I read the description I realized it was probably true. It's errie to think this was only 12 hours before he died! Especially hearing that idle chatter at the end 😨

  • @BennyMcGhee
    @BennyMcGhee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Crazy to think in just a few hours, John would not even know he ever existed at all.

    • @stephenhall11
      @stephenhall11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A spirit like John does not die. We will meet again.

    • @CooManTunes
      @CooManTunes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenhall11 Contrived, religious BS. You're pitiful.

  • @paulislove
    @paulislove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Rip Jonh ❤️

  • @HWDN
    @HWDN ปีที่แล้ว

    It's interesting that he calls his debut album "The Mother Album" as it technically is a self titled/nameless album

  • @danmyers9848
    @danmyers9848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Strange to think that he met his murderer earlier in the day and signed an autograph for him.

    • @joedebaun4547
      @joedebaun4547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      John met him after this interview.

    • @yehboi5482
      @yehboi5482 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joedebaun4547 before this and then again after

  • @agustbjarniheiarsson642
    @agustbjarniheiarsson642 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s disturbing to hear John Lennon mention “gun” (1:24:25) knowing about his destiny few hours later after this great interview.

    • @amarshmuseconcepta6197
      @amarshmuseconcepta6197 ปีที่แล้ว

      This interview
      let the cat out the bag
      &
      *THEDEATHCULT*
      [got him]
      *ALL*
      *PLANNED*
      *TO* *THE* *SECOND*
      &
      *NUMBERS* 🔥🐍🤺

  • @_xndrzt
    @_xndrzt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    he's wearing the same black sweater and red shirt he had in the autograph photo was taken later with chapman

  • @StratsRUs
    @StratsRUs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You just dive into that magical voice and into his Universe.

  • @Ronnie-cs2tj
    @Ronnie-cs2tj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've heard and I've read so many things about Yoko it's crazy that there was more than just office work downstairs that she was taken care of

  • @BlueGirl16
    @BlueGirl16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Miss you john. Rest in heaven🖤

  • @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712
    @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This was so sad because John had reconciled with with Julian and acknowledged he wasn't around for his first child and was a bad absent dad. Sean was planned. Julian was not. Just really sad his opportunity to actually be a hands on dad is overshadowed by his very younger self who was not equiped to even know what a dad was (as he had none) let alone his life that thrust him into superstardom when his first son was born that he was not around for.

    • @OCTOBERBABY7901
      @OCTOBERBABY7901 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was YOKO who said Julian wasn't planned! John didnt say that! He knew he was a dead beat dad to Julian and was trying reconcile the relationship with Julian. Sean wasn't planned either! Yoko spun it that way! She made John to be the bad guy all these years later and suckered people like you to believe the BS she vomited out of her lying bat shit crazy mouth! Do you research about Yoko. She is evil to the 10th power!

    • @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712
      @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@OCTOBERBABY7901 Very sad you are so misguided or unresearched to have such hatred. Here is John saying the fact in 1980. He has also said it a couple of times on BBC radio readily available on TH-cam.
      “Ninety percent of the people on this planet, especially in the West, were born out of a bottle of whiskey on a Saturday night, and there was no intent to have children.
      “So ninety percent of us - that includes everybody - were accidents. I don't know anybody who was a planned child. All of us were Saturday-night specials.
      “ Julian is in the majority, along with me and everybody else. Sean is a planned child, and therein lies the difference.
      “I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a whiskey bottle or because they didn't have pills in those days.
      “He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will.”
      So where is your Yoko source you nastily claim?? He disputes both your claims. Julian WAS an accident and Sean WAS planned. Sorry to burst your bubble. In fact Yoko suffered many painful miscarriages before Sean was born. They planned a family.

    • @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712
      @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Walrus Nostrils Boston Explorer, Walrus Nostrils or OCTOBERBABY7901, it's amusing you are trolling and switching accounts. Blatently caught out catfish. Screenshots are easy of the exact same comments copied. Why pretend and change your usernames? They're all in my notifications. Nobody is that naive surely? It would be interesting to have an intelligent converse, but you simply switch accounts and reply with offensive ad hominems. Btw, I was contemplating which of the 3 (God knows how many more names/alias accounts are registered to the real you...) sound more intelligent.
      Difficult. Mine's not difficult to link that it is a tribute to a chorus in a John Lennon song I love. Sorry but the names you choose sound childish. Sad your responses have proved my prediction to be true.

    • @OCTOBERBABY7901
      @OCTOBERBABY7901 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 and your name is not stupid?! I don't know about Boston and Walrus, but I have never had more than this one account. You are truly one the most ignorant idiots I've ever encountered on YT. You need to STFU! Like I said EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION, WHETHER YOU LIKE TO HEAR OT NOT!

    • @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712
      @ahbowakawapoussepousse2712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@OCTOBERBABY7901 Darling, tell John Lennon his beautiful song is stupid. You write extremely defensively. Wow that's alot of malice you choose to explode on people for simply writing a comment on TH-cam. Anger issues much?

  • @shuddupeyaface
    @shuddupeyaface 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How can some sad fool snuff out the sunshine in 3 short seconds.