John Lennon - The Last Interview, 12/8/1980 Part 7

[jonathanhudgins]

I'm just so glad he gave one last good interview. Doesn't make up for him not being here, but listening to these sure is a pleasure. I'm glad that he sounds so happy here.

[redpaul79]

man, it sounds like Yoko was almost like Debbie Rowe... she just popt the kid out and let John take over

[formerKGBchief]

i have tried to work out why JL loved yoko for years.... still wondering

[rapcritic91]

this is crazy, i noticed that before the computers time, the workspace characteristics relevant to around the early nineties and before had a lot of stuff that is replaced by computers and their universal connection through the internet, even the filing cabinets on the walls.

[mrceebees14]

Disturbing to know that the whole time this is going on, Chapman is outside waiting for him with a .38

[kaitlinan]

I don't care if Yoko's voice is annoying, or that she has no talent, or that she isn't attractive.

I don't like her because it's like she wasn't even a real person! She has no personality, it seems like. I can't imagine her kidding around with John and the other Beatles, I imagine her sitting quietly and occasionally talking to John and only him. If I was Paul, Ringo, or George I would be estranged as to why she was there. I blame her for John's seclusion from his friends.

[Lightner445555555555]

@kaitlinan lol it does seem like she has no sense of humor!

[nicestevez]

the thing i keep remembering is that chapman was right outside their apartment at that time, they could have seen him had they looked out the window...eerie

[NeilFraudstrong]

@picassoui

I remember your username. You got really mad at me for no reason. When I said, "This guy is still at it" I did not mean you. I thought it was obvious. I was referring to someone else and commenting to you that "this guy" aka the guy who was spamming my videos was still at it aka still spamming. Then you flipped out on me and I was like, "WTF?"

[NeilFraudstrong]

@picassoui

I don't think my reply was particularly jerkish. I was just saying, since it is his last interview on the day of his death, it was written in the American style. I wasn't being a smart ass or rude. I was just explaining it.

[walshfan2470]

How did you get this..was it broadcast...wonderful stuff.

[j0nnyism]

is this interview dated the uk way; august 12 or the yank way december 8?

[NeilFraudstrong]

@j0nnyism

Considering that it is his last interview, it's 12 (December)/8 (Eighth day)/1980.

[giftandprosper]

I grew up listening to the Beatles... and it is so refreshing listening to John on his last day in this interview... being just a man and a father and talking about his feelings other than just his music. God Bless you John ... RIP.

[BethBreeze]

Was this interview taped the day John died? Thank God this interviewed happened. John and Yoko..so honest...straight forward...and NO BS...Thank you John and Yoko!

THANK you for sharing your insights of being a father....what a loving SOUL!

[BethBreeze]

Was this interview taped the day John died? Thank God this interviewed happened. John and Yoko..so honest...straight forward...and NO BS...Thank you John and Yoko!

[spawn52010]

thanks neil for this videos

[JungleJesx]

"diarrhea of creativity". BAHAHA<3

[fesbahn]

at least he achieved contentment before the end.

[RAY0112006]

love it when John put's on his northern English accent around 2:40 lol.

[joaohnna13]

@crashtestdummie183 I am a "peace, tree hugging moron" and I intend to be here hugging trees and living at peace.. long after the "termite people" have passed beyond history: that is, if = by some grace of some god or any other: there is still a "here" to be in. if not- I will be a "Peace, tree hugging moron:" somewhere else.. all said with much love, and no malice- It is good that you can see that the presence of Yoko.. affects me. It still would, probably: if I were able to talk to her now.

[joaohnna13]

@toddrundgren actually, it is Windows Media Player- and sometimes we still use the cassette recorder. We raised 12 kids in the bush- in :Oblivian".. uhm- and like I said.. RIP is a Command! .. not a benediction. but no one really wants to hear those songs- at least not here. (northern Ontario).. the 'other man' ... the "Ex"- whatever.. the masogonist psychopath.. er- "husband".. the necromancer.. or whatever it was that dug me up.. so to speak.. has had rumourous thing to say. so-.. yeah.

[christlikeman]

the saddest interview on Earth..i'm so thankful to be able just to come on here and hear his voice..as a man and a father..which he was..sometimes we build up people because the legend is so fantastic..John was not far off from what we built him up to be..I think if he were alive he would be with Paul on his up and coming tour..its nice to IMAGINE..

[joaohnna13]

@christlikeman we are also very thankful to be able to listen and comment here- and to hear john's voice. memory is a funny thing- and you lose most of it in death- I really do not know how the Dali Lama does it! (remembers) but... hearing helps to.. glue the pieces- of the puzzle- like a jig saw puzzle- together... and perhaps triggers memory, or.. I really don't know. but it helps. lets just say that, it helps. peace out.

[dietcokecan94]

Hi Neil,

Do you know any deatils about the third album that was proposed by John in this interview. He, of course, talks about Double Fantasy, then mentions Milk & Honey, but what was the third album? Was it made solely by Yoko?

Thanks.

[NeilFraudstrong]

@dietcokecan94

I am not entirely sure on that. I think maybe it could be Menlove Avenue which was released after his death or it could have been an entirely new album with new material instead of polished studio one off recordings.

[winstono75]

I don't think he would have ever released the Menlove Avenue material. It was from a different era.

[mccartney2006]

@dietcokecan94 Lennon had a number of demos both finished and unfinished. He had a huge number of songs. Many are not heard by the masses to this day. Despite Yoko being labeled a money whore, remarkably she has never officially released most of it. She did have session players work with some of it and that is Milk and honey and Menlove Ave. She got a lot of flak about those two.

[lifestraight]

John Lennon the quintessential artist.

[benjaminlhaines]

@toddrundgren

Yeah, I can picture that, too, Todd.

[sewoja12]

Triggered somethig off (4.36). How spooky.

[Catlovertea4]

I don't believe the Yoko-bashing is so much about her, personally, or, if it is, that wouldn't be fair, really. Who's met her to know her enough to say anything negative about her, personally? The "bashing" is more about the fact that she put herself and kept putting herself in a dominant and equal light with John and as a musician, of all things. From the start, barging her way into the Beatles, as if she was the 5th. She never earned the voice she protruded.

[mrceebees14]

I apologize to anyone that takes offense to this, but to look at Yoko or hear her voice annoys the shit out of me.

She has no talent and isn't in the slightest way attractive.

Sorry John......

[benjaminlhaines]

@mrceebees14

Love is blind [deaf, too, I suppose].

[joaohnna13]

@mrceebees14 well, first off: thank you for saying "sorry John:.. If you were attracted to Yoko then I would have to be.. jealous- and knock you down. you know: that "jealous/ male- " thing.. and we never said that listening to Yoko was easy- but.. I really love yoko- always have, always will: and one has to consider: the person who maybe has no Talent: but has so much LOVE- that they want to share anyway: like managers- there are so many people with talent: who can;t get out there- to be seen

[Available8063]

@mrceebees14 I'm with you on this one. People so often conflate negative opinions of Yoko with some kind of sexism. Her liberating effect on John ended. But John seemed to crave a mother figure and she was certainly that. But c'mon, Sometime in new york city and double fantasy with Yoko=weak, without Yoko=decent albums.

[AGfan5210]

@mrceebees14 I think she is very beaituful really

[greenwich1754]

@AGfan5210 How many beers have you had?

[AGfan5210]

@greenwich1754 I can't drink

[mrceebees14]

He did this interview at night before he went back to the Dakota? Or was this done earlier in the day?

[NeilFraudstrong]

This began around 2 o'clock or so and ended at 5-5:30. Immediately after part 16, John went downstairs to get in his limo and signed autographs for many people including Mark David Chapman. This was the last time he was ever at home. Even though Studio One was his office, it was still in the same building that he lived in.

[chumbels]

lovely interview

[Sloopydrew]

It's creepy to think that as he was giving this happy sounding interview, Mark David Chapman was waiting right outside. Soon to get the very record John and Yoko are talking about signed. Very sad, but it's nice to hear both John and Yoko in such a good mood.

[Triassicc]

he died with his creativity

and how are you to know what he'd be up to?

[PepperDr94]

ooooooooh ok

[PepperDr94]

?, um y did i get a bad comment sign?

[PepperDr94]

So he died on this day 1980. :(

I wish I could kill the bastard who took the life of one of the BEST performers EVER! Easily in the top 3! 1 or 2

[AndreaElizabeth100]

I can't believe this was on the day he died this is so sad. John looked so thin at the end of his life. Why?

[killahbudd]

Anorexia

[Triassicc]

macrobiotic diet my darling

[katrin2801]

I*ve read somewhere that he doesnt like him in the youth (I mean the body) and later he decided to start lose weight.

But it may be also because of drugs.

I*m just smoking but i dont think that my weight depends from cigaretts.

[NeilFraudstrong]

John was called the "Chubby Beatle" several times during Beatlemania and I have heard it always affected him, but no one knows for sure. Either way, I challenge anyone to look at him and say he doesn't look gaunt.

[adster]

test

[045781]

Seems like when Lennon was in NY he lost weight.

No question he did get very thin, he had a string on his wrist to see how much weight he was losing.

[choff56]

he seemed to almost be anorexic. he associated fat with depressed and miserable. he was a skeleton when he died.

[mrceebees14]

He was remarkable correct.

Most diseases lodge in the fat of the body. It's not uncommon for a relatively healthy person to get sick right after they start training. Why? Because when you train that fat is being used, when it dissaptes during training those toxins are released into the body.

[joaohnna13]

@choff56 allthe better to carry you, my dear"...

[joaohnna13]

@NeilFraudstrong we were welly too thin- to be sure.

[BobReidy]

John actually lied in this ineterview.John was said to have kicked Sean and people who worked with him confirm this.He also used to scream at him in a vicous manner making Sean cry.

[NeilFraudstrong]

However true or embellished this may be, I don't think that this is something John would have voluntarily made public during his lifetime.

[BobReidy]

I agree.

[NeilFraudstrong]

John was often sensationalistic in his interviews. For instance, in one part of his last interview he says something like, "I had my guitar hanging up on the wall behind the bed for five years, literally. I barely took it down." and he talked about switching off from the music business, but as my videos show (I am not trying to gloat here, but I am making a point) he was very active musically in his period as a househusband.

[BobReidy]

I know.He was like that any time he spoke which made him entertaining to listen to.I know that he kept making music during his househusband years.He never put away his guitar and never stopped writing songs.He just said that for flavor.

[NeilFraudstrong]

He was kind of an Edward Bloom from Big Fish. I can even imagine a would be soundbyte: "Paul tells the story, but with none of the flavor."

[benjaminlhaines]

@NeilFraudstrong

No need to dis Paul. Check out his recent Letterman appearance. I think you'll find plenty of flavor there.

[NeilFraudstrong]

I wasn't dissing Paul. If anything, I was giving him credit because John often inflated or stretched the truth during interviews while Paul is generally very faithful to the truth and the way things actually happened.

[benjaminlhaines]

I see. Forgive my misreading. I should prob. look up Edward Bloom/Big Fish to get your drift.

[joaohnna13]

@NeilFraudstrong nor now, god help us. If so: well- I was truly a product of me fathers,, and a petulant human being. and those are the moment when you scare yourself" and you think, "ohmagod!! what the hell am I??!" and then you work on that and.. you |HOPE that the Monster has gone..

[salvadormarley]

Oh dear - on the day he died. :(