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  • The "Long And Winding Road" movie John's talking about here was later to become "The Beatles Anthology". This was a project that originated back in the mid-1970s and a rough cut was made around that time. I think that the video footage of "This Boy" and "Twist and Shout" that George Harrison is watching in a 1976 video uploaded onto YouTube is actual footage from the "Long And Winding Road" documentary.

  • brilliant man, and a fantastic interview. Well done by Jim Hartz!

  • Yay! An interview with no Yoko!

  • I think once your a Beatle, you should be able to go wherever you want.

  • Pause at 24 secs and there are demonic faces all over the place.

  • Painful to watch, America at its worst.

  • Thank you so much for this video,John Lennon was not only a singer songwriter but a peace ambassador and a very intellectual person and not only that if he had an opinon on anything he would vent his opinion and didnt care what anyone thought plus as a scouser he is an inspiration to me

    Thank you John and we love you always R.I.P bro

  • 3:36 we DO IT IN THE ROAD! sorry. just had to.

  • I don't like Yoko but it isn't all her fault he ran off with her. It seems sexist towards men to say they're so stupid they will do something because a woman told them too.

  • @SuzLa1 It seems sexist toward women that everybody's blaming Yoko for the break-up of The Beatles.

  • @hermeeown Well, it is. People who truly appreciate John Lennon would never believe such bullshit.

  • @hermeeown Its not sexist toward women. Its only about Yoko. 

  • @SuzLa1 Sexist towards men? It's sexist towards women rather, portraying them as evil controllers.

    All people have a responsibility. But as usual in some parts of the world in some parts of some idiots brains, it's easy to blame women.

  • @sucramnormark It was a female (woman) who introduced Adam to the forbidden "thing." It was also a female that showed me, personaly, how to smoke a cigarette properly (inhaling) and a woman who showed me how to get drunk and how to use drugs. Proof's in the pudding.. :P

  • I think his brains became warped by drugs and his wife didn't like them as she had a son to bring up so it's why john ran off with Yoko.

  • HE Was pretty young here but to me HE LOOKS OLDER & HE does not look healthy & yes ONO was no good all you do-gooders that stick up for her I Believe John would still be living if he wasn,t with her SHE is a parasite MONEY is her GOD & she has all the money in the WORLD Johns money to do what she wants She never loved John she is not capable of loving anyone BUT herself she even exploites her own son sean TO get to where she wants to be & THAT is all camares on her END OF STORY

  • @LVEMEDO All right, that's it. Noone is obliged to love or even like Yoko, but to actually blame her for John's death is not fucking okay.

  • gENE sCHALAT'S HAIR!!!

  • nixon! yoko god bless her, but honestly, what an odd human being

  • See, people have been blaming Yoko for so long for keeping John from a possible reunion when all along they really shoulda been blaming Nixon. Eh?

  • @Clyntell54 John Lennon once wore a pin on his jacket that said 'Deport Nixon'

  • i wanted to see how well the captions would work for johns voice, and they worked very well, but when the interviewer was talking... not so much

    3:49- the senate was hahahaha nomination

    haha

  • I love how John was the only Beatle to suggest that they might play together again :)... But thanks to chapman ..the world never got to see it . ...

  • He was always 'the odd one' but IMO, only because his forthrightness was ahead of it's time.

  • ((*J*))

  • Beatle Juice, Beatle Juice, Beatle Juice......

  • Is that Barbara WaWa?

  • They should have deported his ass back to Communist Russia.

  • @mccarrpo What a douchebag!

  • Oh, how brilliant that would have been if John joined George at MSG!

  • @blazak John had a good time playing a few songs with Elton John at MSG the month before, offered to do the same with George. But George, who had been getting terrible revues, thought John was being patronizing. He angrily told John "I started this tour on my own and I'll finish it on my own!". That was in December 1974. It was the last time the two ever spoke.

  • how long was john's lawyer there?

  • Beatles were the first band to really change from the single front-man to the band member concept. Before the Beatles it was Elvis. From One, Many.

  • I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of NBC News' Today's Entertainment News Report On Part 1 Of John Lennon On Monday Morning, December 16, 1974.

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  • @Carbon657 Damn humans who will not obey "Thou shalt not kill"

  • @Carbon657 Had more people had "guns" in the area where John was shot, he may have survived since someone would have taken out the guy who shot at him. More guns = less killing

  • "[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions."

    -- Henry Kissinger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994

  • John could have just snuck across from Mexico instead of moving into NYC.

  • @editr21 Haha why not? Everybody else does it.

  • He had loads of trouble and Nixon was behind it. Nixon Had Lennon on the FBI watchlist along with other celebrities like Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and many other outspoken war protesters. This was just one example of Richard Nixon's paranoia and abuse of power- certainly among our worse presidents! However, Lennon was not intimidated easily and fought hard on appeals along with his lawyer Leon Wilde and he finally won his citizenship in 1977.

  • @caucus100 That government mission crap is bullshit! Chapman was a pathetic, mentally unstable person insane with jealousy of John Lennon's fame.

  • John Lennon sucks! God bless America!

  • @genedoytch YOUR AN ASSHOLE. YOU SUCK....

    JOHN LENNON WAS GREAT. SO FUCK OFF.....

    YES, GOD BLESS AMERICA

  • @apmgr251 Why do Lennon-bashers look at this video at all?? They think Lennon sucks-so what? Go away and watch something else. Many Lennon haters are among the Christian-right bunch-no surprise there!

  • @Lennon4ever1 I feel sorry for them, quite frankly. The man's music alone was genius. But obviously they must find him fascinating enough to look up some obscure interview from the mid-70's just to bash him... Have no time for John haters. They are a strange bunch.

  • @lalalives They're a hateful bunch, so it's no wonder they don't connect with someone like John Lennon or even understand his message which was opposed to hate, bigotry and war. He was not afraid to speak his mind and challenge the establishment dogmas. He stood up for himself and did'nt just bend over and take it! Those who don't like it can go fly a kite!! -Cheers

  • @Lennon4ever1 Excellent post!

  • @lalalives Thank you. -Imagine

  • @genedoytch God help AmeriKKKa

  • Your people's religion is by choice. You're free to embrace Marxian claptrap, of course.

  • For what I see (about John), the Beatles could be together anytime after John's return to play in 1980 (double fantasy). For sure WE would be able to see them together in the 90's, and guess what? ADIOS all the rest of bands, they would smash all of them again. BUT, yes. That fuckin killer took away LENNON's life and our dream. LONG LIFE TO JOHN AND GEORGE and PAUL AND RINGO.

  • @fantorjhs well somwhere in a next parallel universe John is still with Beatles well we could only imagine!

  • JOHN LENNON (former Beatle)

    Thank you, we needed clarification on who this unkempt long-haired youngster is!

  • @TubularMonkey Not to mention his off-key caterwauling!!

  • @TubularMonkey Unkempt? He looks quite clean to me.

  • @TubularMonkey you made my day with this retort :-D

  • John- Always a Class Act

  • @ST0MP0 and you should be run over by a bus and left to die in the middle of the street and laughed at as you take your last breath, LOL

  • judging by cutandpaste's comments I think his/her username is very appropriate. His words need cutting and he deserves a damn good pasting.....

  • @cutandpaste1 Have a good life and know you can`t take away the greatness of Lennon. Do yourself a favor and check out his journey. I don`t think you would be so dismissive of him. Do you even know what band he was in?

  • @cutandpaste1 I just found your dismissal of a very talented man offensive. I am not at all like you. I like myself. I don`t like the person you make me out to be. I am regretful I come down to your level.

  • @cutandpaste1 You are wrong on so many levels, Now don`t wake Rush as he is sleeping with you. Is he the top or bottom in your relationship. Ass hat coward.

  • @cutandpaste1 One and the same but when I meet a dunderhead like you I get riled.

  • @cutandpaste1 You are insignificant and thus you have no redeeming value. You are a coward and a nothing. I doubt you even have a significant other.....you are just a fucking cunt who will die lonely and despised.

  • @cutandpaste1 Lennon has done more for the sake of peace than you will ever do. What have you done for this world? Nothing right, because you are a nobody and a nothing. To call him a parasite shows the depth of your ignorance. So go back to your basement and jack off to your poster of Glenn Beck you worthless piece of shit.

  • @cutandpaste1 You are a turd bucket. What the hell is your problem? Do you know he was killed? Fucking retard.

  • @dakotajoman Wow you are a classic asshole...I imagine you are a "conservative christian" aren`t you you fucking loser....fuck you.

  • burning in the hell right now.

    who is more famous then Jesus?

  • Good stuff

  • interesting comment when he says he wasn't doing pot at the time. In fact he was on heroin. The tip off he got that they were coming gave them time to get rid of the smack. according to their roadie Neil Aspinell, Lennon told him that he was high on heroin when the cops busted them.

  • The Beatles had trouble with immigration? Look at the United Kingdom now: blacks, polish, indians, pakistani...

  • Had they deported him, he wouldnt have gotten back with Yoko and he'd still be alive. Pissed about it but alive.

  • i hate that (NOBODY) guy who called him, (and has nothing to do with him.)

  • Should a stayed at `ome here on Merseyside, Fuck New York, N.Y. Big Apple bullshit.

  • Total witch hunt!!

  • He mentioned the Long and Winding Road film...which actually became the Anthology series in the end.

  • I understand John didn't want or felt body guards weren't necessary since no one really hasselled him, if he had them, maybe he may have been alive today, my speculation.

  • @beatleman69 - John was not unlike most creative geniuses, he had blind spots. Most of us start to really get down to the business of living at around age 40 ...we start to "get it". Had he lived, it is likely he would have gone on to correct many of his BIG mistakes. His personal security being one, Yoko Ono being the other. He was just too intelligent to allow either of these continue for much longer.

  • @thegrinchl7 Excellent point made. As I also said earlier, John Lennon was a genious and he knew it all his life. RIP John and George too.

  • @TheJohnlennongirl - Well, thank you. However, I hardly think George Harrison is in the same league as the late-great John Lennon. My god, that would be like saying my piss yellow, 1988 Corolla is as good as a Mazzeratti!

  • @thegrinchl7 You are right. It would be like comparing Jack Lemmon to Marlon Brando. One is a brilliant actor, the other one is "THE" Greatest actor.

  • Imagine..,if John still live today...

    

  • @BrandonDaBeatle I would be the happiest woman on earth and his two sons would be overjoyed too.

  • its john lennon, he should be allowed to live in the moon if he wants to

  • Every time John was with Yoko, he became a man that no one recognized any longer. He was cold, cruel, gaunt, and nasty. John's funny wit, and wonderful sense of humor, as well as his creativity was lost! In fact, he actually lost his creativity for a whole five years! When he was away from Yoko that 18 months so many people said, that John came back to life as he once was. All his friends and loved ones saw him again. Julian included. That all stopped with Yoko returned. RIP John.

  • @TheJohnlennongirl Funny because I'm pretty sure he wrote Imagine with Yoko... not so cruel and nasty was it?

  • @TheJohnlennongirl I agree. Nice analysis here.

  • @GhostRocketGames Thanks but really as a really huge Beatle fan from the actual very beginning to the end of the group itself I got this info from the Fab Four themselves and John's friends also in various books and articles. It must have been hell for John who deeply loved Yoko while most of the world seemed to dislike her so much. I myself never liked her either and for that I feel guilty now too.

  • John Lennon is forever my favorite Beatle, favorite singer/songwriter, bar none. I loved and adored him in life and now in death too. I detest what Chapman did. Senseless and wasteful. I know so much about the Beatles together and solo because, they are the best band in the world and I have been there number 1 fan since I first saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show all those years ago. I have been a die hard fan since.

  • @TheJohnlennongirl I feel the same way about John. The Beatles were magnificent/amazing/flawless, but John had the je ne sais quoi that has made him timeless and incredibly captivating all these years later despite his death...he was a simply amazing human being.

  • @TheJohnlennongirl Well, but without the others it wouldn't have been as exciting.

  • Respond to this video... Thanks. Again, strictly by what has been said, by the Fab Four themselves and Cynthia Lennon too.

  • @TheJohnlennongirl how do you know all this? were you johns new best friend? your saying alot of bad things about people when you have no idea

  • @forgetwhatyoudontkno In my heart I will always be John Lennon's best friend. I regret I never had an opportunity to meet him. The chance would never have happened anyhow. You ask how I know so much as I speak ill of people? From John Lennon and the fab three themselves! There are interviews online, books wriiten about the Bealtes and about them as a solo person, magazine articles and interviews and on and on. You name it I know it mostly but not 100%.

  • This interview was done a week after John had been on Monday night football with Howard Cosell and very close to when he gets back with Yoko. He was still with May Pang at the time and he still looks and sounds good here. When he got back with Yoko, he was very thin and gaunt and the wit and charm was also gone.

  • This is excellent. I never saw this before. Thanks for posting it!!!

  • lots of beatle's product that is repackaged!

  • why didnt they put johns killer to death? he killed a major person in our world

    john lennon Oct 9,1940-Dec 8,1980

  • if i could have stopped the day he died, i would do this: when john is walking down the alley, when the killer says "mr. lennon?" i would come up behind him and say mister chapman, give peace a chance. then i would shoot him until he is oblivian

  • @SuperPaulvideo Why Would You Say, "Give Peace A Chance" Then Shoot Him. Kinda Hypocritical. ._.

  • @sk8boy11 because i first off would be funny to see mark david die . and that song is one of lennons songs. it really would make no sense to say that, but it would make sense to kill the killer of john lennon

  • @SuperPaulvideo I Would Love To Curbstomp Mark Chapman >:D

  • @SuperPaulvideo I heard that Chapman shot John in the back, what a coward, if you shoot some one, look at them in the eye before you do. In the old west shooting someone in the back was cowardly.

  • genius dont come around much...

  • there arent many REAL special people..he is one.

  • ooooooooooh JOHN THANKS YOU A LOT FOR THAT !!!

  • ooooooooooh JOHN

  • johhhhhhnnnnn :D

  • As if pot was the only illegal drug Lennon could have had... I mean the man had a single called "Cold Turkey" and was talking openly about his drug use.

    Yet the British and the US cannot prove that he was a drug user?! Is getting caught and arrested the only way to prove it?

    If the US law was not to let in junkies and such, they had every right to deport Lennon.

  • how interesting... thanks so much.

  • very rare interview! Congratulations!

  • John Lennon was the salt of The Beatles!

  • where did you get this? i haven't seen this interview in such a long time :P:

  • He fell for the illusion that NYC was safe.

  • In this interview he seems so calm, happy, pleased with life. He doesn't make a scene of that he doesn't like Pauls album or Pauls personality like he always does when he's with Yoko for example. He seems really nice here.

  • I like listening to him so much more when he's not with Y.O...he's more relaxed and more himself, imo

  • John,you should've left----

  • Even if he was deported - I think that demented crackpot Chapman WOULD'VE hunted him down whereever he was and fulfilled his warped destiny. So its all speculative and hypothesis, my friends. Who really knows?

  • I think there is every chance that if John Lennon was deported he would still be alive to this day. Approaching the grand old age of 70 he would undoubtedly still be the long-haired -albeit greyer, hippy dreaming of a better world for everyone.

    He would have had a massive solo career throughout the 80s and become the grand old dad of music. The Beatles reunion concerts - and believe me these are the thing of our time - would have been enormous. It leaves one to imagine. Oh what would have been.

  • @starryian007 or probs died of drug overdose i should think.

  • @SezbobHeal I doubt that John lennon would have died later of a drug overdose iof he had lived. John was never what you might call a 'heavy' drug user. Sure he had the odd toke on a spliff once in a while, but hard drugs were a no-no with him, especially after after going through a bad period with them in the late sixties.

  • @starryian007 welll, that isn't true. John was a heavy user of LSD in the mid 60s and was hooked on heroin in the late 60s for a time with Yoko.

  • @BeechwoodSilasLang Yes you're right, but John & Yoko did have the good sense to quit hard drugs and go through what he called 'cold turkey' By the early to mid 70s alcohol had taken over - hence his 'missing weekend' era.

  • dear oronare, dont forget what happened to george! :O

    and know id like to sing a song,

    how deep is your laptop

    i really need to learn

    cuz we^re living in a world of fools

    breaking us down

    when they all should let us be

    we belong to you and me

    thank you :)

  • In almost exactly 6 years he would be gone.

  • im glad yoko isnt sitting beside her

  • Hope I get to meet him someday.

  • The cops have a reputation for being corrupt and stupid. At least, back then when the world was changing to rapidly for the cops to understand what was going on.

  • youtube rocks ... so awesome that we can watch this from 74

  • Imagine, 14 years spent having Paul McCartney chasing you round eating the crumbs out of your back pocket.

  • Best , most relaxed and most informative interview John ever did on American tv due to the respectful , low-key tone of Jim Hartz, who was a wonderful interviewer with a special knack for putting people at ease in front of the camera.

  • He says they couldn't have regrouped in the U.S. because of the immigration problems of the four, but the Stones had Visa problems in America and everywhere and always managed to regroup in some country like Jamaica or somewhere to record. Kind of shows the difference between the groups: Beatles lacked long-term endurance.

  • I bet that if lennon didnt die the beatles probaly would have reunited in the 90s or something.

  • @hey134 that would be great

  • Funny bit at 4:55! "I wouldn't wanna be so commercial..."

  • oh yes i wish John would have been deported from America,maybe he is still alive.

  • What a brilliant, brilliant man he was.

  • god damn, what a smart guy, that john lennon. so opinionated, even though he wasted the 10 years of his life advocating excessively for peace.

  • @Sappyspartan u say he wasted 10 years of his life??!!! what a pompous and judgemental thing to say-he gave his whole youth to The Beatles and making fantastic music,influencing millions of people.......what have you done in comparison?

  • Chapman was an obssessed nut and wouldve flown to England to kill Lennon, Stalkers will go to any lengths to get to there objects of obsession. Just google Teresa Saldana & Shawn Johnson

  • naw cuz chapman could have probably flown to liverpool just as easily. john wasnt trying to be stuck in england for the rest of his life fuck that!

  • I feel the same way. I wish he'd been deported, then he'd most likely still be alive.

  • Thanks for putting this up. really nice!

  • If the beatles ger together in 70s. If they would make another album, that would be the greatest album of 70-80s.

  • If the beatles would get together as a band and write another album.

  • The irony is that had they deported John, he wouldn't have been shot and may still be alive today... I guess that anyone who promotes love and peace and free thinking as John Lennon did will be silenced in one way or another.

  • oh shit this dude, he wrote that song abot the jumpin guy

  • framed.

  • I love John! I'm so thankful that I can sing almost like John. It's a gift to even get close. He's something special. I miss him so much, even though I'm only 21.

  • dont try and be him...be you

  • John didn turn up at georges gig,cos they fell out,john was ment to sign forms to end Apple Corps,he didnt show to the meeting and George rang him and went mad at him,so Lennon never played Georges gig,....

  • What an incredible man. RIP John, you'll be missed forever <3

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  • didn't he actually end up not playing with George at the concert he mentioned?

  • i think George wanted him without Yoko and he said no, so he didn't play.

  • john was temporarly slit up with yoko at the time

  • oh yeah, thats right. lost weekend. duh.

  • no he didnt

  • monies only any good if you have the mind to spend otherwise its just paper , man made money ,,money made man misirable ,,, advertising makes you want things you just dont need ,,,,,,,john lennon knew this he knew how the game was played and what he did was learn to play the game by his rules thats what i will miss him for his train of thought

  • Just imagine if he had been deported, he may still be alive today.

  • jesus that's freaky don't say that :'( lol the worlds a crazy place

  • @Oronare interesting theory I never thought of b4

  • @Oronare just imagine if mark chapman had been run over by a car the day he shot him, lennon would still be alive today! LOL you are such a retard

  • @AristYdes How exactly does my comment make me a 'retard'? Care to explain?

  • @Oronare how was it possible for anyone to know that being deported could save his life? if he had been a junkie and had died of an overdose, then it might be clever to say "if only he had stop taking drugs, he would alive". do you get my point retard?

  • @AristYdes i said 'he MAY BE still alive today' I never said he WOULD be. He was talking about maybe being deported, I suddenly got a thought that, wow, imagine if he had been deported, he MAY still be with us.

    Yeah, a lot of things COULD have happened, I just picked up on that as it was brought up in the interview is all. No need to try and be a prick on the internet :)