You reported on the 1968 interview with John Lennon that I published in the New Statesman, which revolved around Lennon's "furious" response to a letter attacking him and his song Revolution for being "unfavourably compared to the BBC radio drama Mrs Dale's Diary" (Day in the life: Lennon's six-hour interview with student revealed, 17 December). The article says Lennon was "enraged" by the letter, in "Tariq Ali's radical journal" Black Dwarf. As you say, "The Beatles might have changed their image, but had lost none of their fire, [Lennon] insisted." And in January 1969, in his own letter to the magazine, Lennon expressed irritation at being "ticked off" by "brothers in endless fucking prose". [read more]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I interviewed John Lennon, and he was no ultra-left radical
You reported on the 1968 interview with John Lennon that I published in the New Statesman, which revolved around Lennon's "furious" response to a letter attacking him and his song Revolution for being "unfavourably compared to the BBC radio drama Mrs Dale's Diary" (Day in the life: Lennon's six-hour interview with student revealed, 17 December). The article says Lennon was "enraged" by the letter, in "Tariq Ali's radical journal" Black Dwarf. As you say, "The Beatles might have changed their image, but had lost none of their fire, [Lennon] insisted." And in January 1969, in his own letter to the magazine, Lennon expressed irritation at being "ticked off" by "brothers in endless fucking prose". [read more]
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