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ellephantitis my dear wottsit

Did you sing a song name My Summer love??

In 1991, I performed in a play that had a script written around this book and 'ASpaniard In The Works'....it was great fun to work with the script

You can tell the Yellow Submarine cartoons were taken from John's cartoons.

This has not dated well and neither has a lot of Lennon’s ‘literary’ writings. 2016 and ML thinks he can definitively say whether something is offensive or not. You can’t speak on behalf of other people, Mark! And stop using the terms ‘spastics’ and ‘cripples’ as if they still have a place in 21st Century language. His Lennon bias is troubling when it comes to writing All These Years. He surely knows that Cynthia has attested that John was terrified at that Foyles luncheon and they hid their nerves by getting drunk. Lennon felt out of his depth amongst the intellectuals and literary types present. There’s nothing wrong with that. Why does Mark pretend that John was doing something deliberately provocative? He was simply intimidated. ML may be going to the archives for his research but his narrative is re-writing history.

This sounds very pretentious and OTT for what it was. If Lennon was never a Beatle no one would have paid any attention to it. 'Why ???' The presenter asks. The books are not very good IMO.

I was born in’51 and came of age with the Beatles .In those days Canada was much closer to England that it was to the US in terms of culture. We caught on to the beatles wave very shortly after the UK and way before Ed Sullivan. Looking back now , what a blessing .

The term “FLANGER” or “FLANGE” is a term used in recording today, that comes from John Lennon.

Mark Lewisohn is starting to grate in his fawning and somewhat uncritical gaze on Lennon. It does not bode well for an impartial history, imho. It doesn’t surprise me that his research access has been blocked by Apple, either. JL was of course talented but I have seen a similar standard of writing in otherwise quite average young men of 16 or 17... it’s not that rare actually, and simply derivative of Milligan, Sellers et al. The Goons were enormously influential in the comedy culture of the day, and John was an attention-seeking class clown who stopped writing nonsense when he eventually ‘grew up’. His experimentation allowed for interesting lyrics for Beatles songs, however, for which we can be thankful.

This interview is total nonsense. I hate people trying to shape history to fit their own narrative. Utter middle-class bullshit.

John Lennon was not much of a reader. He wasn't. Fact.

Apparently, John had a major problem with spastics...

Yeah, I just now came across this! Only 3+ years behind the times.. Having read Lewisohn's Beatles' Recording Sessions masterwork, I was completely satisfied to know so much about my favourite band. Now I know I can go back to that time and relive The Beatles' story through this latest incredible undertaking! (and my wait for volume 2 won't be as long as it could have been). 😉 wOw! I'm going out to get this book ASAP!...

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Amazing video!

It’s a bit jolting to see the presence of the “n-word” in his description of the sketch of the “scotch man” (around 4:35” in), even if Lennon was still not yet an adult at the time.

Interviewer seems a bit of a tit

Oh my god 😂😆

Gibberish

For the lyrics question I suppose Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band would be good examples.

An enthralling talk. As interesting as his books.

Y ¿cuándo lo traducirán al español? Y ¿cuándo esta entrevista doblada o traducida?

ML said one of the photos showed John talking to Kingsley Amis. If I'm not mistaken, it is also KA in the previous slide (17:52).

Lucky face?

No video games back then. Books.

I could listen to this for hours. I love Beatles' talk, especially when it's as knowledgeable as this.

John didn't make a speech at the luncheon because he was terrified to stand alone in front of people he had zero in common with. It's in Cynthia's book.

I could listen to Mark all day. Fascinating stuff. Can't wait for Volume 2.

John evaporating slightly? You must be joking, Mark.

I'm a huge Lennon fan, but the thing that's always confused me - for someone who was a 'voracious reader' from such a young age - was his consistently poor spelling to the end of his life (even spelling 'grammar school' as 'grammer' in an early Beatles Q&A) and his basic misunderstanding of the real meaning of the character of the 'Walrus' in Lewis Carroll. I know in his books he purposely misspelt and twisted words - that's a given - but even in answers to fans and in serious letters during the break-up, his spelling and punctuation is quite poor and eccentric. Maybe just an indication of his lazy inattention to detail, for which he was famous..... who knows. It's just confusing for a guy who was supposedly reading from such a young age..... still a genius though. And still very much missed....

6:00 Definitely _NOT_ automatic writing (I don't think the host understands the meaning of the term).

Strange that Stanley Unwin was mentioned and Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces is not mentioned.

Always great to hear Mark Lewisohn.

Nicely done!