John Lennon On The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder - Part 3

[zyxquark]

I know for a fact elvis and bob dylan were both aware of the possibility of being killed by a nut for notoriety. I can only assume being British Lennon didn't have a sense of what a dangerous and weird place america can be. lennon was murdered after elvis died but I know elvis told his body guards if that ever happened to him they should definitly kill the guy on the spot cause he didn't want the guy enjoying the notoriety. a bit of history for you.

[yelherf]

Tom Snyder is a knob

[robynhriley]

tom snyder is a f**Kin cockskin, his word choice is so antagonistic. bad interviewing, but john does a good job with keeping it interesting and real.

[MsGnorts]

Perhaps Elvis would be leading such a life today, if it wasn't for the pressure, the horrid fame he endured! yes, fame can be a punishment also!

He would be like an everyday guy, which would've been healthy and normal for him just like for everybody else.

[Harrietmos]

Hummmmmm. I'm 57 years old. I probably saw this when it was on. I have to tell you that noone at that time even noticed Tom's cigarette, anymore than they noticed John and Yoko both smoiking cigarettes in Dick Cavett's interview where he offered to light Yoko's and they got into a discussion not about cigarettes, but about men holding doors open for women. Women's rights was more important then, and many people smoked in public without ridicule. Marijuana has five times the carcinogens.

[surferbuddha]

@Harrietmos cigarettes = cancer, marijuana = unlinked to cancer

can't blame them, they used leaded fuel too!

Happy Birthday John!

[felixq78]

@Harrietmos Marijuana has five times the carcinogen ? Horse shit ! Why do people just pull this shit straight out of their arses. Evidence please, what whacky study did you invent to support this stupid hypothesis ? Hmmmm?

[Harrietmos]

I had to quit smoking pot because it made me cough so hard that I pissed my jeans. Just sayin'. I did check out some stuff on Google, but naturally I found statistics to show it both ways. The nature of statistics. If somebody offered me a brownie I'd eat it if I thought I would get tested any time soon. But, I really can't smoke it anymore. COPD from the cigarettes saw to that.

[postyesterdayman]

"not listen to Jascha Heifetz" !!! Ha! Tom, the king of the obscure reference!

[mrbrianmccarthy]

Tom Snyder irritated me when he kept asking John Lennon if he "did illegal drugs",the whole time smoking a cigarette.I thought John handled himself well in regards to that tho.He artfully denied usage,and then proceeded to tell Tom that many "Ordinary people" did drugs---true statement. John Lennon 1 Tom Snyder 0 ; . )

[MoveOverCasanova]

funny how lennon explains snyder the abundance of cocaine -- somehow snyder loks closer to cocaine than lennon, but surely the first is an accomplished hypocrit

[LVEMEDO]

HE WAS THAT HAPPY i don,t think so LOOK AT HIM HE LOOKS MUCH OLDER THAN HE WAS & HE,S NOT HEALTHY LOOKING good job ono & JOHN IS NOT ALWAY,S RIGHT HE WAS FIGHTING FOR PEACE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING HIS INNER DEMONS & THE WAY HE & HER TREATED HIS FIRST BORN SON he was with ono simply because out of all the beatles HE HAD THE BIGGEST EGO ono fed that HE SAID HE WAS ATTRACTED TO HER because she looked like a guy in drag THAT,S NOT LOVE THAT,S SEX & EGO

[Monkofmagnesia]

It was touching when Lennon said that they were all worried about Ringo when they broke up.

[susp1]

@Monkofmagnesia Touching??? He is all but admitted that Ringo is untalented! You don't worry about someone with talent but John worried about Ringo..because he had no talent. Ringo played good drums but couldn't sing or write music at all. He was just a drummer like milliions of others out there. John said it himself in this interview when Tom asked him how is it that Ringo can make a hit out of songs that where there before they were born. John said because the songs were already there!!!

[acido141]

@susp1 Ringo wrote Octupus's Garden. Granted he wrote only that song for The Beatles, but if I hadn't known, and if John or Paul had have sang, I'd have thought they had wrote it, not Ringo, so you can't say he couldn't write music, or sing, because he sang well on that song.

[susp1]

@acido141 ok, good point about Octopus' Garden. Ringo also wrote Don't Pass Me By. So Ringo has some musical writing ability but I don't think his voice is good. And I wonder how much help Ringo got from the other Beatles on writing Otopus' Garden.

[BaronM]

@acido141

Saw an interview, where he said that George helped him a lot. Even with some of his solo lp's with the songwriting and finishing in the studio.

[BeatleMonkeegirl15]

Tom Synder by far i think interviewed John<3 the best :D

[MoveOverCasanova]

you can move into the "dakota", but that does not mean that the dakota agrees with you -

that´s america - that´s life

[rareu4532]

We still Miss you.... Think about how much music he make if would alive

[MickyG4444]

fuckin Tom Snyder... Howard Stern set him straight

[rranswerman]

Is it not a tad hypocritical for Tom Snyder to lecture John about the responsibilities of people who appear on television while holding a lit cigarette in his hand?

[MickyG4444]

haha

[weenyone]

Lennon first comment is very chilly about being able to walk around New York and not be noticed. Five years later he would be gunned down outside his apartment so celebrity was a liability in his case.

[BoxcarFred]

That is true, but George Harrison was attacked in his own home, with fences, cameras and security guards. If somebody wants to get to you bad enough, they will.

[EdwardCullenLovr]

i love how hes trying to tell John Lennon, among the top biggest stars of all time, about how people follow him. John's like, ok, because you apparently know more than I.....whatever....haahaha....n­ice one tom....

[captainkundalini1]

Nice to see how much Lennon cared about his mate Ringo.....

[HoosInDaHowse]

what do you mean? :S

[captainkundalini1]

"I am most happy for Ringo's succes...He ain't dumb...from 3.00. There was a bit of a worry about how his recording career might be..."

[HoosInDaHowse]

oh yeah! How did I miss that bit? :O must have been when i was interupted on msn! :) Thanks.

[PearlJammer07]

You could smoke on TV shows back then. More so. Stars do it now cause no one is going to say "Oh don't smoke that on my show."

[dronken]

what a fantastic interview#

[pppllluuummm]

Weird to see him smoking on a tv talk show....!

[PearlJammer07]

It is going to happen. Documentaries about drugs on TV are rampant now.

[schwambly]

People, you need to stop learning about weed from sitcoms and police dramas.

[PearlJammer07]

You must be some kind of idiot. Kids and people are going to learn about drugs through TV shows. It is just the way things are.

[schwambly]

Allow me to be somewhat more explicit: People, the things you hear about drugs and what they do to or for you is nonsense almost all of the time. Mostly because pot smoking is more joke than truth. Learn from the documentaries that PearlJammer was so kind to have mentioned. They are far more truthful. If you can stand to pick up a book, the truth will be found in nonfiction writing about weed.

[PearlJammer07]

Well you have a good point there. Most documentaries either glamorize, or make weed seem like a really bad drug. Books are where most good info on anything is at.

[schwambly]

As fpr your misdirected statement about me being some kind of idiot: Yes, indeed I am SOME kind of idiot. Each of us is SOME kind of idiot. What you really wonder is what kind of idiot I am. And you might learn something about yourself if you begin to wonder what kind of idiot YOU are. We could start a website

[PearlJammer07]

LOL!

[liverpoolishgirl]

It is ironic and hurts to see him talk about being able to walk around NYC and be left alone. Sad.

[Wahoofuck]

when was this interview done?

[liverpoolishgirl]

@Wahoofuck  Autumn of 1975... Yoko was pregnant with Sean and John was about to go into seclusion for the next five years. He got his 'Green Card' the same day Sean was born, on his 35th birthday, 9 October.

[dmovie27]

He's serious and straight because he doesn't have Yoko in his ear making him act giddy and clouded.

[obdami]

This could be Lennon's best interview. It's nice to see his serious side. All to often he was flippant and sarcastic and you never really got a good feel for him.

[alloowishus]

teelux, i don't need scientific studies, i've seen it among my friends. a friend of mine's husband was chronic and eventually went bat shit crazy.

[alloowishus]

okay, weed isn't addictive. so stop for a month and see what happens. weed is also a hallucinagen, which will fuck up your brain eventually.

[Teelux]

alloowishus: cite my me a specific scientific study that concludes that weed will "fuck up your brain."

[schwambly]

Weed isn't a hallucinogen.

[Atheeizm]

Fantastic. I love Tom going on about the possibility of John preaching to the kids about drugs as he waves the cigarette about. Granted, a different calibre but still.

[poppensmurf]

cigarettes are worse than most drugs, the fact that it's legal and run by big corporations doesn't change anything

[JonathanHawes94]

@Atheeizm

IMHO cigarettes are pointless and they kill you, at least weed is less harmful and you get a damn good high :D

[BLAGASPANTS]

@Atheeizm Yeah, look at how many people die from smoking branded cigarettes compared to people who die from smoking weed.

[barrys]

The best Snyder interview was with Meatloaf. He kept calling him Meatball until 'loaf got mad. Then Snyder just called him "Meat" for the rest of the interview. Hilarious.

[Oriente7]

John is so right.

[knickyknockers]

Tom smoking.Questioning a musician about drug use.!1975.

How dare he!LOL!How dare HE!The hypocrisy.

[stringsrichie]

yes, i think why this interview is so good is because it doesnt sound like an interview,it sounds like a late night B.S. session...i think thats why it has a draw to alot of people.

[alramone1]

very good interview!

[bencw05]

i love how he lights up on screen

[jackogatoner]

cigeretts are worse than weed, weed isn't addictive, and i cant think of anybody who died from it.

[Imonlysleeping9]

Actually, since weed is unfiltered you have more of a chance getting lung cancer from it than cigarettes. There isn't TOO much of a difference between weed and liquor on the body, though..

[gastrointestinal21]

actually since you smoke many fewer blunts or whatever than cigarettes, weed is less harmful overall.

[schwambly]

Seriously. There is a vast difference between what weed and alcohol do to your body.

[afromanjack]

nice hippy bullshit but weed is worse. increased chances of schizophrenia, worse for the lungs, bad for short term memory, concentration and causes depression, can become dependant on it, and smoking through a roach you're more likely to get addicted to tobacco. still like it but don't chat rubbish

[poppensmurf]

weed is nothing, the only bad that comes out of it are when people say no to moderation, but it's not addictive, so to say no to moderation is just laziness

[afromanjack]

i see ur still living in the dream. thats nice

[schwambly]

Ounce for ounce, weed is about five times worse, but you would have to smoke four cigarettes worth of it in a day to equal the harm of a pack of tobacco cigs. Most people just don't smoke THAT much.

[StevenZB1]

Long term alcohol use is far worse than long term cannibas use.

[schwambly]

Even short term use is worse from A than from W. Ever wake up in the morning with a hangover? That is your evidence.

[schwambly]

People don't usually smoke enough weed to make the lung damage worse than it is with cigarettes. And what does smoking a roach have to do with getting addicted to tobacco? Please inform us.

[afromanjack]

smoking through a roach fucks up your lungs and throat way more, and also gives you a bigger kick out of the cigarette. This means that along with the positive association with the high of the weed, you're more likely to become addicted to cigs. I'm actually quite pro-weed in most debates btw people, but i think it does the cause an injustice when people (not you, someone lower down) make statements like 'cigarettes are worse than weed'.

[schwambly]

afroman, are you talking about a blunt? Not a roach? Maybe you call them different things than I do. A roach is just the last end of a joint. It hardly can be associated with tobacco.

In the amounts of each that people usually smoke, cigarette smokers do more damage to their lungs with their drug of choice.

[afromanjack]

in england roach means a bit of card u roll up and put at the end of the spliff

[cripplewoox]

snyder is a closet bad boy,im sure he smokes the mary jane

[pathammond]

Snyder mentions Jascha Heifitz! What a legend.

Danny Heifitz of Mr. Bungles Granuncle. Great violinist. Mr. Bungle pwn.

[argoninja2112]

one of the reasons why this is such a good interview is because it doesn't feel like an interview, it feels like a conversation. it's not, "so, what's your favorite drink?" i'd like to listen to John just chat about anything, but this is a very natural sort of conversation, which i like. hey Ceeby, well done on quoting Sting! a pet hate for many people, but the man is ace!

[libraryquiet]

Tom Snyder talks too much I want to hear John!

[luxyaltz219]

Have only seen this interview now and probably the best interview i have seen john given on camera ,he comes across articulate and honest,even if some of snyders questions were naff ,and john was a pro at dealing with stupid questions .Glad to see here he didnt go down the ' pull funny faces and throw out silly comments road ' he was far more inteligent than some of those fuck wits who interviewd him over the years gave him credit for. sady missed

[unconventionalmeans]

Who on TV--back in the mid-1970's--had worse looking hair than Tom Snyder?!

Actually, now that I think of it...TS always had bad looking hair...even in the 80's and 90's.

[sunnypie2]

Snyder asked good questions.

[irrelevancy58]

Snyder is a such a hypocrite talking about drugs while he is himself is smoking. WEED and LSD are not addictive. Smoking increases a person's chances to leukemia by 30%.

[SlimJimfrWpg]

your name "irrelevancy" is so appropriate - this is an interview with one of the most fascinating men of our time - and your comments about smoking and leukemia are totally "irrelevant".

[srandallf]

thanks for posting. must be one of the only lennon interviews i had not seen in its enirety. im not a yoko hater, actually like her...but its nice to see john during this period, without her, alone and just talking so relaxed in a conversational style. it really blows that we cant see john on the charlie rose show these days. bummer

[christopheros00]

John Lennon is the 'second' greatest music writer of all time. The first, though most may disagree, is Paul McCartney, who, although they both inspired each other, had the edge on writing some of the best songs ever. The quality and volume no other artist is likely to ever achieve! Chris

[westftballstar31]

snyder lighting the twig lol just think if people still could do that on tv

[Ceeby]

The one thing about John Lennon was that he spoke the complete truth as to what he thought at the time. To quote Sting 'the mask he wore was one'. Loved him. If heaven exists, then I look forward to meeting him and thanking him for being such a real human being with the burdon of being so very famous.

[celebtrvl]

When John was killed, one of the first things I watched from my collection was this. Ironically, when Tom Snyder died recently, I did the same. This was a tough time for John trying to stay in the US and its wonderful to listen to his introspections about himself and the other Beatles. Classic TV!

[moonshark21]

The government doesn't want you to use your drugs. They want you to use THEIR drugs. - Chris Rock

[PAULLONDEN]

Yeah sure...no hasle .N Y Pow pow pow Onóóóóó€:~ó

[MattHawes]

It is a tad ironic for Tom Synder to be talking to John Lennon about the responsibilty as a celebrity to pubicly denounce drugs, all the while he is holding and smoking a cigarette.

For the record: Drugs are bad. Mmm'kay? ;-)

-- Matt

[IcouldBNE1]

Yeah but weren't they talking about illegal, intoxicating drugs? I don't think you can put regular cigarettes in the same category. And I don't think Tom was getting on John's case about the responsiblity of denouncing drugs. He just asked "would you do an anti-drug commercial if you were asked to do one".

[aarfeld]

Yes, you can't put them in the same category--cigarettes kill tens of thousands more each year than illegal substances.

[sandykopi]

You're absolutely right! Especially between 7:00 and 7:15 ! John is making a good point,with a lot of honesty, and here comes Snyder talking like a preacher from an other century, holding a lit cigarette. Ridiculous.