7 wenner theinterviewwindsup
- 1. The interview winds up: John just could not retire. Singing is singing for people’s enjoyment, not being able to hold notes. If John’s an old man he and Yoko can make wallpaper together. Yoko didn’t split the Beatles, and she is far out. Has anyone really understood Warhol and his films like 24 hours of sleep? People can’t take Van Gogh because of the pain, and Yoko has pain. John’s great popularity is because he copped out in the Beatle thing. John had a great time with the Beatles - chicks, drugs, drink, power! He created, yes, but he was in the party! It was fantastic. John came out of the sticks to take over the world: London, Paris, everywhere. America is where it’s at - John should have been born in Greenwich Village. Yoko says John is very New York, but he says he is a f*cking cripple and can’t take it. He’s frightened of it, he needs to go to the country. Liverpool as a port was less hick than other places and it influenced his art. The sailors would go there with blues records from America. George went to San Francisco and John was all for living on Haight Ashbury. History will tell that it all went down in San Francisco. Even in London they created something with Mick, Eric Burdon, Brian Jones. (The Rolling Stones also listened to blues records.) With Dylan it didn’t happen like that, when they met John was always too paranoid or aggressive. John respected Dylan, but Paul did not, he was jealous. John sees Dylan as a poet and as competition for John’s early poetry books, John didn’t follow, he was always around and himself. The last time they met, they were both wearing shades and on junk. They were in a movie together but John is too frightened to see it. What will John do in London over the next three months? John’s been worn out by New York. Does he have a vision of where he’ll be when he’s 64, as the Beatles song says? Andrew was 64 years and 5 days when he began writing this summary.