Lennon's Last Interview: 'The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility'

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from The Nation:



It was thirty years ago today: December 8, 1980, on what would turn out to be the last day of John Lennon's life, he did an interview promoting his new album, Double Fantasy. He talked about the sixties: "The thing the sixties did was show us the possibility and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

Interviewer Dave Sholin of RKO radio, who taped Lennon in his apartment at the Dakota in New York City, asked him about feminism. "I'm more feminist now than I was when I sang 'Woman Is the Nigger of the World,'" he said. "Isn't it time we destroyed the macho ethic?... Where has it gotten us all of these thousands of years? Are we still going to have to be clubbing each other to death? Do I have to arm-wrestle you to have a relationship with you as another male?... Can we not have a relationship on some other level?"

And he spoke about "the opening up of the sixties." "Maybe in the sixties we were naïve and like children and later everyone went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of flowers and peace.... The world is a nasty horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/156903/lennons-last-interview-sixties-showed-us-possibility

[Drale]

1. The good ones always die to young

[ET Awful]

2. They actually played that interview on one of XM radios classic rock stations

the other night. It was a very interesting interview.

He was talking near the end of it about how he was going to the studio afterwards and that he would keep making music until the day he died (I don't remember the exact words).

The people that did the interview all told the story of how they arrived home hours later in various parts of the country and heard the news.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R on a sad anniversary