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The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon and Yoko Ono: The complete texts plus unpublished conversations and Lennon's song-by-song analysis of his music
Contains the complete text of the Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, recorded shortly before Lennon's murder, and includes Lennon's song-by-song analysis of his music
193 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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John Lennon
757 books1,983 followersJohn Winston Ono Lennon, MBE, was an English singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, and together with Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolving into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up towards the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next decade, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, on film, and in interviews, and became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. Disengaging himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, Lennon reemerged in October 1980 with a new single and a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered weeks after their release on the sidewalk outside his home in the Dakota. Ironically, "Imagine" (imagine all the people, living life in peace) was a featured cut from this album.
Lennon's album sales in the United States alone stand at 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
--Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia --
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolving into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up towards the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next decade, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, on film, and in interviews, and became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. Disengaging himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, Lennon reemerged in October 1980 with a new single and a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered weeks after their release on the sidewalk outside his home in the Dakota. Ironically, "Imagine" (imagine all the people, living life in peace) was a featured cut from this album.
Lennon's album sales in the United States alone stand at 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
--Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia --
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September 12, 2025
"I'll be forty [years old] when this comes out. Paul [McCartney] is thirty-eight. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of 'the last record,' or the last Beatles concert - but, God willing, there are another forty years of productivity to go. Time will tell where the real magic lies." -- John Lennon, to interviewer David Sheff, on page 65
Such quotes give David Sheff's The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono more than a tinge of after-the-fact melancholy. In September 1980 - on the eve of John Lennon celebrating his fortieth birthday, as well as issuing his first new music (the album 'Double Fantasy') in just over five years - Sheff conducted a series of discussions with the duo throughout the month in New York City at their apartment, at the recording studio, at cafes, and in Central Park. Intended to be published as a multi-page article for 'Playboy' magazine - this was a respected consistent feature in the periodical since 1962, including its signature three candid-like photos of the interviewee - said interview would soon be considered Lennon's final major in-depth discourse before his assassination in December 1980. Lennon riffs on a number of subjects throughout, and approximately the final third of the book is an extended burst of Q&A about his music, especially his humorous, blunt and/or self-deprecating opinions on various Beatles' tunes. Forty-five years later this works as a vibrant tribute to the man - who seemed happy, content, and looking forward to a future which, sadly, did not come to pass for him - and I had no problem imagining the transcribed dialogue in Lennon's signature Liverpudlian lilt.
Such quotes give David Sheff's The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono more than a tinge of after-the-fact melancholy. In September 1980 - on the eve of John Lennon celebrating his fortieth birthday, as well as issuing his first new music (the album 'Double Fantasy') in just over five years - Sheff conducted a series of discussions with the duo throughout the month in New York City at their apartment, at the recording studio, at cafes, and in Central Park. Intended to be published as a multi-page article for 'Playboy' magazine - this was a respected consistent feature in the periodical since 1962, including its signature three candid-like photos of the interviewee - said interview would soon be considered Lennon's final major in-depth discourse before his assassination in December 1980. Lennon riffs on a number of subjects throughout, and approximately the final third of the book is an extended burst of Q&A about his music, especially his humorous, blunt and/or self-deprecating opinions on various Beatles' tunes. Forty-five years later this works as a vibrant tribute to the man - who seemed happy, content, and looking forward to a future which, sadly, did not come to pass for him - and I had no problem imagining the transcribed dialogue in Lennon's signature Liverpudlian lilt.
April 13, 2026
"Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it?". ---John Lennon, quoting fellow rocker and boozer Harry Nilsson. John Lennon possessed the greatest trait an artist can have; he was of two minds about everything. He was born an outsider who loved to peer into English class society and expose its flaws and hypocrisies. At the same time, he longed to be an insider with a happy home, great wealth, and recognition from the society he spurned. These contradictions are on full display in the last full interview of his life, granted to PLAYBOY contributor David Sheff in 1980. John waxes painfully and joyfully about his songs, two marriages, two sons, fame, genius, politics, literary influences, and coming back from drugs and alcohol in the Seventies to restart life with Yoko Ono and Sean. CAVEAT: Yoko's contributions to this interview are the bird-droppings of a sixteen-year-old Valley girl with $150 million of John's money to throw around. Nearly every sentence is punctuated with "whatever". Do yourself a favor and skip this part of the interview.
John could be a very eloquent man a deux, provided the interviewer was intelligent and could stand to wait for his complicated and at times convoluted answers. Probing into Lennon's mind Sheff hears John say that the Sixties counterculture, of which the Beatles formed an important component, was futile, except "we really did change the world". Why were the Beatles so influential? They tapped into the zeitgeist, John avers, which was waiting to explode anyway, but then again, "we were the Sixties version of Glen Miller; everybody has happy memories of the music they grew up with". So, the Beatles were able to say what nobody else could? Sure, says John, unless you count all those years when "we were the puppets" of Capitol Records, Brian Epstein, Dick Lester, and the British and American music press. How about Paul McCartney? What did he contribute to the Beatles? "Paul can be a pretty good songwriter...when he isn't on his pedestal". How about your infamous line about Paul, John, "Those freaks were right when they said you were dead"? "I wasn't really feeling that nasty...but musically, I think he did die". Do you stand by your radical solo songs like "Power to the People"? "That was posturing, me guilt for having made a million bucks". Was he still political? "Like I told Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, I want to see the plan...but, I've never voted in my life".
The first eighty pages of this extended dialogue consists of Mr. and Mrs. Lennon descanting on eco-feminism, macrobiotics, matriarchy, giving up show business, yep, both of them, for house work on his part and money matters on hers ("only Yoko you sell a cow for $100, 000"), and John sacrificing five years of his life, 1975-1980, to raising Sean, "baking bread and changing diapers". Sheff steps in and reminds John that for most couples, with less than $150 million in the bank, these would be duties, not options. John tosses that aside with a curt "either way, it's hard work", while conceding to Sheff that he and the missus have a cook, nanny, and personal assistant at their call. Julian, John's son from his first marriage, does not fare well in his father's estimate: "Sean is my first child. He was planned. Julian was born out of a bottle on Saturday night". Dads all over the world, kindly take note. How did Lennon, self-described "macho, tough guy, male chauvinist pig," come to this enlightenment? Yoko, of course. "She taught me I didn't have to churn out the product and release an album a year, like Paul". If he had stayed on that course, John would either "have gone to Vegas to sing my big hits, if I was lucky, or gone to hell, which is where Elvis went". But, don't ever get the idea that Yoko holds John on a leash, short or long: "She's not my Don Juan {Carlos Castaneda's Yaqui shaman}. I don't need a Don Juan, and she doesn't need a Beatle. Who needs a Beatle? I'm saying it here on page 196 of the magazine, next to all the tits and asses". Does he miss or mind fame? "I absolutely don't need it. Let the fans go jack off to Mick Jagger. Let them go play with the Rolling Wings". With huffing and puffing like that on John's part, who could fail to be convinced?
For the back pages of the interview, John accedes to Sheff's request that they dissect all the old Beatles and Plastic Ono Band songs, with John asserting they will be considered "greater than anything I did as a Beatle in twenty or thirty years". He was right, although oddly he and Sheff don't discuss "Working Class Hero", "God" or "Mother", songs that draw blood. First off, what was the songwriting relationship between John and Paul? Does he stand by his statement that "Paul and I wrote separately"? "I was lying", jokes John. "He and I would toss lyrics back and forth, or he might have a chord I could write a lyric to, and vice versa". But, who contributed what? "He's more of a optimist, whereas I would insert a bluesy, pessimistic note to some songs". Such as? "'We Can Work it Out'. Paul wrote the title and refrain; I came up with "life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting". How about "Eleanor Rigby"? "Paul had the first stanza, and I came up with the rest, and the chorus, 'Ah, look at all the lonely people! Where do they all come from?'"? John admits many of his songs are "garbage" and "throwaways", but that's the life of a songwriter. He does offer an important clue as to why his songs have lasted: "I'm a journalist. I write about things that happened to me, or that I dreamed. I couldn't write a song like 'When I'm 64'. That's Paul completely". What's the worst thing that can happen to a songwriter, Sheff asks. "To become a craftsman. like Picasso in his last fifty years, and just repeat yourself. i admire craftsmen, but I have no intention of becoming one". Then, the inevitable question, "Are the Beatles ever getting back together?". John: "When are you going back to high school?".
John predicted to Jann Werner of ROLLING STONE in 1970 that one day he and Yoko would retire to a cottage somewhere on an island off the coast of Britain and "go through our scrap books, looking at photos of our years of madness". Karma, which John deeply believed in, had other plans. In 1970 he moved to New York City, "the new Rome", he called it, and after five years of floundering musically and personally---drugs, alcohol, really bad albums (WALLS AND BRIDGES, ROCK AND ROLL)---he withdrew from the public and turned his life over to Yoko. A wife, child and financial comfort domesticated him, and according to these interviews, John was very pleased. His 1980 comeback album, DOUBLE FANTASY, recorded while he talked to Sheff, celebrates home life, Sean and Yoko. The music is disappointing, sounding just like what John once called Paul's solo work, "muzak to my ears". At least we have this interview; the final testament of "the thinking man's Beatle" at middle age, bourgeois and comfortable.
John could be a very eloquent man a deux, provided the interviewer was intelligent and could stand to wait for his complicated and at times convoluted answers. Probing into Lennon's mind Sheff hears John say that the Sixties counterculture, of which the Beatles formed an important component, was futile, except "we really did change the world". Why were the Beatles so influential? They tapped into the zeitgeist, John avers, which was waiting to explode anyway, but then again, "we were the Sixties version of Glen Miller; everybody has happy memories of the music they grew up with". So, the Beatles were able to say what nobody else could? Sure, says John, unless you count all those years when "we were the puppets" of Capitol Records, Brian Epstein, Dick Lester, and the British and American music press. How about Paul McCartney? What did he contribute to the Beatles? "Paul can be a pretty good songwriter...when he isn't on his pedestal". How about your infamous line about Paul, John, "Those freaks were right when they said you were dead"? "I wasn't really feeling that nasty...but musically, I think he did die". Do you stand by your radical solo songs like "Power to the People"? "That was posturing, me guilt for having made a million bucks". Was he still political? "Like I told Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, I want to see the plan...but, I've never voted in my life".
The first eighty pages of this extended dialogue consists of Mr. and Mrs. Lennon descanting on eco-feminism, macrobiotics, matriarchy, giving up show business, yep, both of them, for house work on his part and money matters on hers ("only Yoko you sell a cow for $100, 000"), and John sacrificing five years of his life, 1975-1980, to raising Sean, "baking bread and changing diapers". Sheff steps in and reminds John that for most couples, with less than $150 million in the bank, these would be duties, not options. John tosses that aside with a curt "either way, it's hard work", while conceding to Sheff that he and the missus have a cook, nanny, and personal assistant at their call. Julian, John's son from his first marriage, does not fare well in his father's estimate: "Sean is my first child. He was planned. Julian was born out of a bottle on Saturday night". Dads all over the world, kindly take note. How did Lennon, self-described "macho, tough guy, male chauvinist pig," come to this enlightenment? Yoko, of course. "She taught me I didn't have to churn out the product and release an album a year, like Paul". If he had stayed on that course, John would either "have gone to Vegas to sing my big hits, if I was lucky, or gone to hell, which is where Elvis went". But, don't ever get the idea that Yoko holds John on a leash, short or long: "She's not my Don Juan {Carlos Castaneda's Yaqui shaman}. I don't need a Don Juan, and she doesn't need a Beatle. Who needs a Beatle? I'm saying it here on page 196 of the magazine, next to all the tits and asses". Does he miss or mind fame? "I absolutely don't need it. Let the fans go jack off to Mick Jagger. Let them go play with the Rolling Wings". With huffing and puffing like that on John's part, who could fail to be convinced?
For the back pages of the interview, John accedes to Sheff's request that they dissect all the old Beatles and Plastic Ono Band songs, with John asserting they will be considered "greater than anything I did as a Beatle in twenty or thirty years". He was right, although oddly he and Sheff don't discuss "Working Class Hero", "God" or "Mother", songs that draw blood. First off, what was the songwriting relationship between John and Paul? Does he stand by his statement that "Paul and I wrote separately"? "I was lying", jokes John. "He and I would toss lyrics back and forth, or he might have a chord I could write a lyric to, and vice versa". But, who contributed what? "He's more of a optimist, whereas I would insert a bluesy, pessimistic note to some songs". Such as? "'We Can Work it Out'. Paul wrote the title and refrain; I came up with "life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting". How about "Eleanor Rigby"? "Paul had the first stanza, and I came up with the rest, and the chorus, 'Ah, look at all the lonely people! Where do they all come from?'"? John admits many of his songs are "garbage" and "throwaways", but that's the life of a songwriter. He does offer an important clue as to why his songs have lasted: "I'm a journalist. I write about things that happened to me, or that I dreamed. I couldn't write a song like 'When I'm 64'. That's Paul completely". What's the worst thing that can happen to a songwriter, Sheff asks. "To become a craftsman. like Picasso in his last fifty years, and just repeat yourself. i admire craftsmen, but I have no intention of becoming one". Then, the inevitable question, "Are the Beatles ever getting back together?". John: "When are you going back to high school?".
John predicted to Jann Werner of ROLLING STONE in 1970 that one day he and Yoko would retire to a cottage somewhere on an island off the coast of Britain and "go through our scrap books, looking at photos of our years of madness". Karma, which John deeply believed in, had other plans. In 1970 he moved to New York City, "the new Rome", he called it, and after five years of floundering musically and personally---drugs, alcohol, really bad albums (WALLS AND BRIDGES, ROCK AND ROLL)---he withdrew from the public and turned his life over to Yoko. A wife, child and financial comfort domesticated him, and according to these interviews, John was very pleased. His 1980 comeback album, DOUBLE FANTASY, recorded while he talked to Sheff, celebrates home life, Sean and Yoko. The music is disappointing, sounding just like what John once called Paul's solo work, "muzak to my ears". At least we have this interview; the final testament of "the thinking man's Beatle" at middle age, bourgeois and comfortable.
September 29, 2025
Very enjoyable long 1980 chat with JL and YO about domesticity, gender, politics (sometimes embarassing, sometimes not) and anyone that has ever been mean to them, with closing song-by-song discussion of the Beatles. Often wise, often hilariously vituperative, extremely sad.
February 5, 2017
This book is special to me for many reasons: as a fan, because it opened up the door for me between seeing John Lennon as a musician versus a person; and personally, when I first read the book back in1983, John's words provided a stable, secure place for me to go as I was experiencing my parents' divorce. I was overjoyed that there was finally someone I could read about that thought and felt similarly to myself. I never was a child in the head, and it was quite a lonely existence. His words kept me company, and to this day, it's my most treasured book.
February 6, 2017
This book, along with the Plastic Ono Band album, were to me what pscyhedelia and the "bigger than Jesus" comment must have been to a Beatlemaniac in the 1960's.
Like taking the rug out from under you at first, the realization that John Paul George & Ringo exist apart from their cheeky grins and catchy tunes.
After the initial bruising, though, you develop a greater and truer appreciation for the men underneath the moptop -- in this case, John Winston Ono Lennon.
Plastic Ono Band has since become one of my favourite albums, and The Playboy Interviews with John & Yoko has since become one of my favourite reads.
The book itself is about as straightforward as you can get. The text of the questions and answers, word for word, with the only interruption coming when there would be a day(s)-long break in the interviewing.
David Sheff, of course, chooses some questions and comments during the interview that are intended to bring out sensational responses, but that's as to be expected, and at least it all took place during the interview and not in "touching up" for the book.
My only complaint is that, though this book is hailed as a complete text of the days of interviewing they had to condense for the magazine publication, there is still some editing. Which I only know about after hearing snippets of the recordings through Sunday morning Beatle radio shows, and hearing what I consider important comments that I'd never read.
Like taking the rug out from under you at first, the realization that John Paul George & Ringo exist apart from their cheeky grins and catchy tunes.
After the initial bruising, though, you develop a greater and truer appreciation for the men underneath the moptop -- in this case, John Winston Ono Lennon.
Plastic Ono Band has since become one of my favourite albums, and The Playboy Interviews with John & Yoko has since become one of my favourite reads.
The book itself is about as straightforward as you can get. The text of the questions and answers, word for word, with the only interruption coming when there would be a day(s)-long break in the interviewing.
David Sheff, of course, chooses some questions and comments during the interview that are intended to bring out sensational responses, but that's as to be expected, and at least it all took place during the interview and not in "touching up" for the book.
My only complaint is that, though this book is hailed as a complete text of the days of interviewing they had to condense for the magazine publication, there is still some editing. Which I only know about after hearing snippets of the recordings through Sunday morning Beatle radio shows, and hearing what I consider important comments that I'd never read.
January 7, 2015
unbelievably revealing insights into lennon and the beatles. the wit, the anger, the scathing putdowns. of special interest: the song by song review of almost every beatle song he wrote.
and while you're reading this, why not listen to "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur"? It's 2 CD set of various artists covering john's songs, benefitting Amnesty International's campaign to spread the news about the crisis in Darfur.
and while you're reading this, why not listen to "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur"? It's 2 CD set of various artists covering john's songs, benefitting Amnesty International's campaign to spread the news about the crisis in Darfur.
March 4, 2013
A very insightful account of a man awakening to his feminine identity yet still wrestling with a former macho aggressive one. It is clear in this interview, which took place a little over a month before he was shot outside the Dakota, that John Lennon was troubled by knowing an inner beauty and peace that is still not supported or encouraged by our society.
August 12, 2009
Really liked it, but of course it's an interview so it's not really about the writing. Knowing it was John's last interview was sad. Sheff did a great job with a difficult interview. I've read a lot of books about the Beatles and was happy to read some things I didn't know.
May 31, 2015
I've got less than four years to have a Playboy interview by John Lennon's age. Uh oh.
Does Playboy still do interviews / exist?
And yes, obviously I read it for the interview.
Does Playboy still do interviews / exist?
And yes, obviously I read it for the interview.
February 12, 2025
Loved this so much. It's a sprawling 200 page Playboy interview with John and Yoko over the course of weeks as they record their collab album Double Fantasy — only a couple months before John's assassination. It's such a lovely peek into their mind and world, and I gained a newfound appreciation for both of them.
Yoko is so far ahead of her time in terms of how she thinks about the world, and so many of the points she's making are even more prescient today. Quite Mira pilled if we're being real, and I loved reading Yoko passages to her and seeing how much they resonated.
John is a little more complex, but it in some ways even more beautiful. He is forthright about the missteps of his teen and young adult life — but with such candor and clarity around why he was wrong in old ways of thinking and acting. He shows a true enlightenment inspired by his relationship with Yoko that is lightyears ahead of the faux enlightenment from his acid-laden salad days as a Beatle. His humor and personality shine through and it's heartbreaking to hear him talk about how excited he was for his next chapter of life (had just turned 40 and was making his first album after five years of being a househusband). I would've loved to see the rest of his contribution both musically/artistically and otherwise. Would he have gone full new wave as the 80s progressed? Would he have had contemporary collaborations akin to what Paul has done? Would he have gone folk in the 90s in Neil Young Harvest Moon fashion? I don't know, but he definitely had so much more to give.
Overall it's a beautiful little book brimming with insightful, timeless passages. Couldn't recommend it any higher, particularly for all my Beatleheads, Johnheads and lost boys looking for male role models.
Also going to quickly rip my "gun to my head" John top 10:
1. Across the Universe
2. Happiness is a Warm Gun
3. You Are Here
4. Dear Prudence
5. Strawberry Fields
6. #9 Dream
7. Sexy Sadie
8. I'm So Tired
9. In My Life
10. I'm Only Sleeping
Yoko is so far ahead of her time in terms of how she thinks about the world, and so many of the points she's making are even more prescient today. Quite Mira pilled if we're being real, and I loved reading Yoko passages to her and seeing how much they resonated.
John is a little more complex, but it in some ways even more beautiful. He is forthright about the missteps of his teen and young adult life — but with such candor and clarity around why he was wrong in old ways of thinking and acting. He shows a true enlightenment inspired by his relationship with Yoko that is lightyears ahead of the faux enlightenment from his acid-laden salad days as a Beatle. His humor and personality shine through and it's heartbreaking to hear him talk about how excited he was for his next chapter of life (had just turned 40 and was making his first album after five years of being a househusband). I would've loved to see the rest of his contribution both musically/artistically and otherwise. Would he have gone full new wave as the 80s progressed? Would he have had contemporary collaborations akin to what Paul has done? Would he have gone folk in the 90s in Neil Young Harvest Moon fashion? I don't know, but he definitely had so much more to give.
Overall it's a beautiful little book brimming with insightful, timeless passages. Couldn't recommend it any higher, particularly for all my Beatleheads, Johnheads and lost boys looking for male role models.
Also going to quickly rip my "gun to my head" John top 10:
1. Across the Universe
2. Happiness is a Warm Gun
3. You Are Here
4. Dear Prudence
5. Strawberry Fields
6. #9 Dream
7. Sexy Sadie
8. I'm So Tired
9. In My Life
10. I'm Only Sleeping
November 21, 2010
wawancara panjang lebar dgn john lennon & yoko ono, 3 bulan sebelum john terbunuh. membahas ttg hubungan cintanya yg banyak tdk dimengerti publik, vakumnya dia dari dunia musik selama 5 tahun utk menjadi ayah rumah tangga, visi2nya menjalani hidup ke depan, flashback ttg the beatles & hubungan dia dgn personil2 lainnya setelah bubar, dll. sangat blak2an & intens
January 3, 2024
I’m glad I took the time to get this insight into the minds of John and Yoko. When you strip away the celebrity status you realize there are just regular folks underneath. They both make a lot of sense, and I will never see “celebrities” in the same light again. Rest in peace John, and God bless Yoko.
March 5, 2014
Many reviewers also loved this book, but they forgot that Yoko had some great insights about she and John's relationship and about love in general. The love they shared went far beyond the controversies.
March 6, 2017
In my opinion, one of the best books about John Lennon and The Beatles. Especially good are the questions and answers about the Beatles songs and who wrote which Beatles songs.
November 7, 2014
Being an interview this really isn't a book per se. It is certainly interesting to read the Lennon/Ono view of life but that's as far as it goes.
May 26, 2020
Eye opening for me. There is more to Yoko than meets the eye.
April 25, 2025
really great and interesting read for anyone looking to get an insight into the lennon-ono psyche!
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November 25, 2025There’s a quote in this where john calls october the ninth month of the year. ❤️❤️
January 14, 2021
Although neither of them was necessarily competent on the emotional level (at least based on what I have previously read on their treatment of John's first wife and son, also some of John's statements in the book were a bit obnoxious to other members of the Beatles), on the mental level their thoughts were very progressive and interesting.
They were more progressive than a lot of people these days are, so it is a stimulating read.
They were more progressive than a lot of people these days are, so it is a stimulating read.
June 30, 2015
I have been fascinated by the Beatles and their solo careers for some time. This extensive interview makes a nice addition to the long list of John Lennon interviews and books I've read. This interview serves to make a legend more human and gives ample information about his songwriting.
March 25, 2020
Very entertaining book. Displayed John's wit and playful tone while discussing his relationship with Yoko and his review of all of the Beatles songs. We could really use his humor on these difficult times.
October 17, 2020
The last major interview!! Read more than once- from their own mouths!!
June 28, 2016
It's interviews with John and Yoko. Are you interested in John and Yoko? Then read it.
March 25, 2018
#19 of 120 books pledged to read during 2017
July 10, 2021
Pretty fun, but man did Lennon not have much romance about his Beatle years.
September 15, 2021
A great interview. A perfect bookend to Lennon Remembers... this is as close as we'll get to a John autobiography. Compelling, honest, and tragic.
December 21, 2023
It's just a pleasure listening to John Lennon's last interview he talks how he has so much plans ahesd
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January 28, 2024
They disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed one could say. another could say they just did a few too many shrooms.
February 22, 2024
idk he sounds like he’s still on acid
May 29, 2024
🖍️ OK . . . they had their fifteen minutes of fame. Was it worth it?
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