John Lennon looks out a hotel window at thousands of fans in Australia in 1965. “I once received a bra… with “I Love John” embroidered on it. It thought it was pretty original. I didn’t keep it, mind you – it didn’t fit. ” – John on a fan’s gift to him during the [...]
John Lennon with a cardboard cut-out of himself from the Yellow Submarine film in 1968. ” It was the third movie that we owed United Artists. Brian had set it up and we had nothing to do with it. But I liked the movie: the artwork. They wanted another song, so I knocked off ”Hey [...]
“He was given the shittiest load of badly-recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever, and he made something of it.” – John Lennon on how Phil Spector “reproduced” the Beatles “Let it Be” album.
Here’s a rare photograph of John Lennon standing outside Paul McCartney’s house. John and Paul wrote many of the early Beatle hits there. The photo was taken in 1961. “You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth” – John Lennon
“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.” – John Lennon