Lennon on Lennon Conversations with John Lennon Jeff Burger editor 9781785585715 Books
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Lennon on Lennon is an authoritative, anthology of some of Lennon's most illuminating interviews, spanning the years 1964 to 1980. The majority have not been previously available in print, and several of the most important have not been widely available in any format.
Lennon on Lennon Conversations with John Lennon Jeff Burger editor 9781785585715 Books
Who is your favourite Beatle? For those of you, like Liam Gallagher and myself, who answer ‘John’, a large part of his appeal in addition to his singer-songwriting qualities is the man’s general attitude, combining originality, humour and fearlessness, as epitomised by his “rattle your jewellery” remark at the 1963 Royal Command Performance.‘Lennon on Lennon. Conversations with John Lennon’, edited by Jeff Burger, will thus need no recommendation to Lennon fans, although should they need persuading a very strong inducement would be the fact that this book contains material which has never previously before appeared in print.
According to Burger a third of the material has been difficult or impossible to access hitherto, whilst the remaining two-thirds has been scrupulously reviewed and, where necessary, corrected. Thus Burger boasts an “annotated, fact-checked, chronologically arranged anthology of some of Lennon’s most illuminating and representative interviews”, which is supplemented by key quotations from dozens of additional sources.
Such a statement is a hostage to fortune and unsurprisingly some errors have slipped through, such as a reference to a “power block” rather than a “power bloc” or a footnote which suggests that Burger does not realise that Flanagan and Allen were part of the Crazy Gang. Burger also mistakenly states that ‘God’ is the opening track on the ‘John Lennon/Plastic One Band’ album when it’s actually the tenth (‘Mother’ being the first).
Burger’s judgment is also sometimes open to question as, for example, when he states that The Beatles’ “hit albums” were “each better and more sophisticated than the one before”. Whilst generally true, this proposition is, I would maintain, impossible to defend if you think of ‘Beatles for Sale’ following ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, not least because, in Burger’s own words, the latter was “their first all-originals collection”, whilst ‘Beatles for Sale’ contains six cover tracks.
When John and Yoko were interviewed in Vienna from inside a bag (one of the pieces included in the book), one of the reporters rudely remarked that they were not saying much of interest. John accurately responded that, “If the questions are … banal, you’ll get banal answers”, and this exchange helps provide one explain why ‘Lennon on Lennon’ is somewhat patchy; some interviewers ask asinine questions. You will feel Lennon’s frustration about being constantly asked about his hair and understand that one of the attractions of being interviewed in a bag is that it should preclude such questions about his appearance.
Another reason why the book has its occasional longueurs is that sometimes those conversing with Lennon are more interested in expressing their own, less interesting, ideas than listening to his (I’m particularly thinking of Timothy and Rosemary Leary on the joys of living in a tepee). It also has to be said that sixties vernacular can become a little tiresome, with statements such as “Just dig what you like, dig what you dig, and let other people dig what they dig” or “art’s a bag you can get it out in.”
On the other hand, this book offers the joy of John’s honest appraisal of subjects such as the fans’ false sense of entitlement: “I’ve never owed anything to the public. I mean, I bring out a product and they buy it. It’s like that. I never expected Mr Rolls-Royce or Mr Mini to allow me to sleep in his garden … I’m not for sale. My products are.”
You also get to hear John’s pithy observations on a host of other subjects including capitalism (“Who needed soap before they sold it to us”); happiness; The Beatles as a counter-cultural Trojan horse; touring; the ‘Bigger than Jesus’ controversy; Apple; getting busted for drugs; the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Primal Scream therapy; meditation; macrobiotic food; Maoism and much else besides.
John is sometimes contradictory, naive or downright wrong (he thought Jagger would never get an honour) but he is usually pithy, frequently funny and always brutally honest, making ‘Lennon on Lennon’ a great pleasure to read.
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Lennon on Lennon Conversations with John Lennon Jeff Burger editor 9781785585715 Books Reviews
Who is your favourite Beatle? For those of you, like Liam Gallagher and myself, who answer ‘John’, a large part of his appeal in addition to his singer-songwriting qualities is the man’s general attitude, combining originality, humour and fearlessness, as epitomised by his “rattle your jewellery” remark at the 1963 Royal Command Performance.
‘Lennon on Lennon. Conversations with John Lennon’, edited by Jeff Burger, will thus need no recommendation to Lennon fans, although should they need persuading a very strong inducement would be the fact that this book contains material which has never previously before appeared in print.
According to Burger a third of the material has been difficult or impossible to access hitherto, whilst the remaining two-thirds has been scrupulously reviewed and, where necessary, corrected. Thus Burger boasts an “annotated, fact-checked, chronologically arranged anthology of some of Lennon’s most illuminating and representative interviews”, which is supplemented by key quotations from dozens of additional sources.
Such a statement is a hostage to fortune and unsurprisingly some errors have slipped through, such as a reference to a “power block” rather than a “power bloc” or a footnote which suggests that Burger does not realise that Flanagan and Allen were part of the Crazy Gang. Burger also mistakenly states that ‘God’ is the opening track on the ‘John Lennon/Plastic One Band’ album when it’s actually the tenth (‘Mother’ being the first).
Burger’s judgment is also sometimes open to question as, for example, when he states that The Beatles’ “hit albums” were “each better and more sophisticated than the one before”. Whilst generally true, this proposition is, I would maintain, impossible to defend if you think of ‘Beatles for Sale’ following ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, not least because, in Burger’s own words, the latter was “their first all-originals collection”, whilst ‘Beatles for Sale’ contains six cover tracks.
When John and Yoko were interviewed in Vienna from inside a bag (one of the pieces included in the book), one of the reporters rudely remarked that they were not saying much of interest. John accurately responded that, “If the questions are … banal, you’ll get banal answers”, and this exchange helps provide one explain why ‘Lennon on Lennon’ is somewhat patchy; some interviewers ask asinine questions. You will feel Lennon’s frustration about being constantly asked about his hair and understand that one of the attractions of being interviewed in a bag is that it should preclude such questions about his appearance.
Another reason why the book has its occasional longueurs is that sometimes those conversing with Lennon are more interested in expressing their own, less interesting, ideas than listening to his (I’m particularly thinking of Timothy and Rosemary Leary on the joys of living in a tepee). It also has to be said that sixties vernacular can become a little tiresome, with statements such as “Just dig what you like, dig what you dig, and let other people dig what they dig” or “art’s a bag you can get it out in.”
On the other hand, this book offers the joy of John’s honest appraisal of subjects such as the fans’ false sense of entitlement “I’ve never owed anything to the public. I mean, I bring out a product and they buy it. It’s like that. I never expected Mr Rolls-Royce or Mr Mini to allow me to sleep in his garden … I’m not for sale. My products are.”
You also get to hear John’s pithy observations on a host of other subjects including capitalism (“Who needed soap before they sold it to us”); happiness; The Beatles as a counter-cultural Trojan horse; touring; the ‘Bigger than Jesus’ controversy; Apple; getting busted for drugs; the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Primal Scream therapy; meditation; macrobiotic food; Maoism and much else besides.
John is sometimes contradictory, naive or downright wrong (he thought Jagger would never get an honour) but he is usually pithy, frequently funny and always brutally honest, making ‘Lennon on Lennon’ a great pleasure to read.
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