Exclusive: John Lennon, the lost interviews

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/beatles/article6820697.ece

From The Sunday Times
September 6, 2009

John Lennon did many brilliant things in his life, but arguably one of his most inspired acts was his deliberate destruction of the Beatles in 1969 — just 40 years ago this month. It didn’t seem that way then, not to tens of millions of devastated Beatles fans around the world, and not to Paul McCartney, who, feeling abandoned, went off to his farm in Scotland and into a deep depression.

But if Lennon, who’d started the group that evolved into the Beatles, hadn’t murdered his creation at that moment, if the band had somehow struggled on through their rows into the 1970s,

I doubt that you’d be reading this article today.

By killing the Beatles before they could disappoint us, as they inevitably would have done when music fashions changed and the band’s later albums didn’t quite live up to the ones we still love, Lennon froze them for ever at their peak.

imagine the odds of these two things happening.

I think it's sad to see groups like the Rolling Stones doing their version of "Elvis Does Vegas."

he did.

Enduring,and endearing rock star ever.

My favorite paragraph in this article:

John, talking about a Hare Krishna group who’d been painting a little temple in the grounds of Tittenhurst Park near Ascot, which was briefly his home, was typical. "I had to sack them. They were very nice and gentle, but they kept going around saying ‘peace’ all the time. It was driving me mad. I couldn’t get any f***ing peace."

"The Beatles were supposed to be this and supposed to be that, but really all we were was a band that got very big."

"Actually, our best days were before we got that big, when we used to play for hours in clubs."

"Mick Jagger said we weren’t a good band as performers. But he never saw us at our best in Liverpool and Hamburg. We were the best bloody band there was."

Ah, tales persist to this day of The Beatles doing other people's songs to warm up before shows. Maybe someday their version of "You Really Got Me" will surface. One can only Imagine the harmony!

Kinked and Wreckommended.

:smoke: