Bassman45 | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | 11:54 pm

Really enjoyed listening to this interview, sounded very natural, easy, and you could feel what he was all about, a good guy, who was trying to do his best, he is greatly missed. I listen to his songs now, like "Imagine" or "Give Peace a Chance" and I think how relevant they are to this day and age, 30 years later.

macdaddy6 | Saturday, October 09, 2010 | 8:14 am

Would've been 70 yrs old today. I'll never forget the day he died and the regrets of not attending his "Candle In",living in central NY state,5 hours away, I make the trek often now. What a loss!

Peaceful One | Thursday, July 01, 2010 | 4:16 pm

WOW

Kosova | Friday, April 30, 2010 | 11:22 pm

Bravisimo, excellent...just before his death. Oh God, he was full of life. So sad. At that time I was 15, and me and my brother Ziggy, we opened a book of condolesence, the whole Prishtina rockers came to sign. We were listening the white album. I was so scared, how it is possible, he's not alive any more. I remember those days

Luan from Kosovo

Anonymous | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 10:35 am

It's always amazed me about John (and the other Beatles as well, for that matter) how down to earth and normal he always came across despite being one of the most famous people in the world. It's not that he isn't aware of his place in history, it's that he's not self-aggrandizing about it. That's a tough act to pull off; most people, given even a little fame or money, tend to flaunt it and act entitled. John never seemed that way, which speaks to his character.

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Peteinaus | Saturday, December 26, 2009 | 2:31 pm

This is an excellent interview to hear, as most of what survives (or gets shared) from 1980 is from the last few days of John's life. The last few minutes of this recording are very poignant indeed where he talks about how the attitude of his friends and critics would change completely if he had died a few years earlier, but that while he was alive he was a bastard who never called them and who kept to himself. As it turned out, a prophetic observation. For instance, I don't believe (Just Like) Starting Over was a good enough song to reach #1 on its own - Woman and Watching The Wheels, yes. John Lennon was no saint, he was a man rife with anger and constantly looking for ways to channel his energy (not all of them positive), but through his unique personality and individualism helped to change the world, and in the US during the '70s change the awareness of young voters (as seen in the brilliant film "The US vs John Lennon". Combining this documentary with what is now known about the Robert Kennedy assassination (ie brainwashing techniques used by the CIA) I find it impossible to believe that the Chapman shooting "just happened" - some loony trying to shoot John Lennon, which just HAPPENED to coincide with his reemergence in the media and in the music world. The timing gave it away. After seeing "The US vs John Lennon", and previously being unaware of the profound influence John had had on the youth culture in the US in the early '70s, I am now convinced he was disposed of. To my way of thinking the whole Chapman thing was set up, for sure. Interestingly also, I have on video the news reports from the days following the killing of John Lennon, and at one point Mark Chapman's wife or girlfriend (who happened to be of Asian appearance) says: "I'm so sorry Yoko has to go through this and her husband had to die". HAD TO DIE!! No one has ever questioned this strange choice of words from the one closest to Mark Chapman, which I just find extraordinary. Aside from all of this - the sad and twisted end to a brilliant life - I'm so pleased this interview has brought to light once again what an amazing man John was, the likes of whom we will sadly never see again.

gogolh | Sunday, December 20, 2009 | 4:38 am

Very poignant - hard to believe he's been gone for nearly 30 years.

Benito1 | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 | 5:05 pm

John realized that he was the master of his fate; and the captain of his soul and was living this way, until his untimely death.