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LAST INTERVIEW

"The Beatles are always closer to each other than their women ... I don't think you can break the bond as strong as 4 people, even trying. So something must have happened to them - not just because of external factors."

By MotestPublished 4 years ago 7 min read
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Back in the late 1960s - 70 century with an old story of an expanding couple of artists at the time, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Partly because the husband was a former Beatles man, partly because of the personality of the two who smells of rebellion - heterosexual, great ideological, political influence and many others... John and Yoko often provided true, genuine, and vulgar details and they were always full of gravity with the journalist hunt. Moreover, for half a decade, since 1975, these two people had been reclusive with the outside world. This increased the desire of the press and media, including the owner of Playboy magazine.

The sweltering heat of the early summer of 1980, a nerd was on duty, it was David Sheff. David is not a mediocre reporter. He had experience, tactics and understood psychology of prey ... As one of the best, who surpassed the pen village to get "testimony" of a series of notorious names like Jimmy Carter, Albert Schweitzer or Bob Dylan ... And the reason Playboy chose David Sheff, probably " Curry and Pepper".

David Sheff began to follow the smallest clues, turning to the past, relationships, phone numbers ... Everything could lead him to approach the secluded couple. A first appointment is set up, good things started to happen, and other appointments followed. Much of the concealment began to unfold in an ingenious and interesting way: 20 hours - 3 weeks of "confiding" with John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

The book "last interview" - A result of the skill of the reporter. Driving questions are simple, even terse, sensitive, but it seems to scratch right. Especially when John was always interested in David Sheff, I think John is not a person who likes to hide and the more he thought when he finished reading this book. The book "last interview" - A result of the skill of the reporter. Driving questions are simple, even terse, sensitive, but it seems to scratch right. Especially when John was always interested in David Sheff, I think John is not a person who likes to hide and the more he thought when he finished reading this book. And Yoko, a woman 7 years older than John seemed to be careful in the first minutes ...

As a living - honest document,"Last interview" exposes what belongs to John Lennon. Speak out of his rebellious seeds of art, music, politics, desire, passion and peace ... It also makes some sensitive heads vague about omens and meanings from what John says here, where John often talks about life and death.

John was known as a person with complex multi-faceted personality. John was sometimes selfish, cynical, arrogant ... even as an article L'Osservatore Romano once remarked that John's "Beatles is more famous than Jesus" manifesto is "the boast of the young English working class, grew up in the Elvis era and enjoyed unexpected success. ” However, sometimes John was very saintly, sometimes seeing things dreaming like a child or also full of philosophical thoughts. So to portray the character John Lennon in a characteristic flow of fears that was incorrect. That's why I wanted to hear John speak, think, not just comments about John.

On the side of Yoko, the history comes from a family of artistic blood, had attended prestigious universities but dropped out, had been treated in the psychiatry department, spent few generations of husbands, lovers, had children, beauty average range weak. Yoko chose for herself an artistic path, often appearing with strange works in the museum that made many people scratch their heads, pondering whether it was a metamorphosis or an avant-garde school. ?

 

John Lennon & Yoko Ono was an unimaginably silly love song in the eyes of many people at the time. Especially for the Beatles aficionados still regarded Yoko as "an eccentric witch flying from a distant land of Cherry, landing in a crowd of merry, rolling eyes and stealing the beloved John." And now I wanted to hear Yoko talk about this:

"The beatles are always closer to each other than their women ... I don't think you can break the bond as strong as 4 people, even trying. So something must have happened to them - not just because of external factors. (Interpreting page 144 - last interview)"

So was Yoko's comment reasonable? Turning to the Beatles' past records, we could patch up and summarize the following:

The sudden death of the talented boss Brian Epstein, the quartet forces himself to steer the boat with an artist-driven steering wheel but many are naive. The members revealed their ego more and more clearly, the songs became more and more nuanced and experienced by each individual. They were no longer little boys wearing shoulder-to-shoulder singing and dancing. This was increasingly evident, as in the White album that Rolling Stone magazine described as "4 albums released in one edition", but it was still excellent. George Harrison increasingly showed his ability to compose. But there was clear evidence that George was upset by being restrained by two too big balls, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. And page 150 excerpts John said:

I remember the day George called for "Taxman", one of his first songs ... George met me because he couldn't ask Paul, Paul wouldn't help at all. I also do not want to help. I thought, oh no, don't tell me I have to work on George's work. Enough for Paul and me to do things. But I loved George and didn't want to hurt him when the afternoon he called and said, "Will you help me with this song?" I hesitated and agreed ...

… We only let him sing one song in each album but if you listen to the first Beatles albums, the English version, you will see that it is again the single chosen for the album. The first songs George and Ringo play are often the songs we choose from the songs the group often performs (repetoire) in discos. I usually choose songs that are easy for them to sing. ”

John himself said this, George was forced under the laws of John & Paul. If George can get help with his work, it is only reluctant. As for me in particular, George Harrison can completely compose the masterpiece, which has been proved through "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something" ...

The two guys John & Paul were still very dissatisfied, to Ringo as gentle as a lime or the "fifth member" George Martin also expressed his depression. Obviously the Beatles were just loose bonds and even if Yoko brought out the impossible, her arguments are very well-founded..

Not only stops in the secret stories that are revealed, "The last interview" is not a review book about John Lennon, it allows you to find your own self-criticism about John. By simply you are invisible people sitting in a "closed room" in which only John, David and you. We hear John speak, hear the way a man in his 40s contemplates a life full of humor, intelligence and maturity ...

Shortly thereafter, at 3pm on December 8, 1980, 5 rounds of Mark David Chapman ended John Lennon's life. A pitiful death - unfortunate, John painfully made his way to the doorstep, the last breath was not enough to save a loving father, husband, a man who has reached the age of maturity with too many plans to do. ... The world loses part of "music" and part of "truth". Political conspiracies are still going on making people feel nostalgic for a pacifist and truth, many people say they do not know who to trust but John?

Is this death like a sigh of American authority, a prick in the eye that was pulled? And is it just 5 bullets from a crazy dumbass?

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