I listened to the re-run of Nicky Horne's 1975 interview with John Lennon last night. I think it was on Capital originally, this time it was on Planet Rock. I've listened to lots of Lennon interviews over the years. Those with Brian Matthew and Andy Peebles, the one recorded the week before his murder, being the more insightful.
What was interesting was to hear how Lennon was so offended by what critics had said about Imagine, they didn't say anything bad about it it was the fact that they said it would be the best album he ever recorded. Lennon said that critics have nothing to offer and sit around thinking of put downs, he said there writing was the equivalent of picking your own nose and eating it. He said it reminded him of when the Beatles released From Me To You and the NME said they had failed to recapture their past glories, they were finished as a band after four or five singles.
It reminded me of the old Frank Sinatra quote about critics being the sort of people who would go in at the end of a battle and shoot the wounded.
Lennon then said something that I'm sure had the power to send a shiver down the spine of anybody who was touched in anyway by his or The Beatles music. He said he was only 34 and hopefully he would be making music for the next sixty years.
The interview closed and was followed with a outro by Nicky Horne before the programme closed with........the end of side two of Abbey Road, which of course was written by Paul McCartney. Doh!
Lennon in 1975 in the TV tribute to Sir Lew Grade.
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