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AP News Radio
Madonna, Mariah music added to National Recording Registry
"The Library of Congress has selected another 25 recordings of cultural or historical significance to be added to the national recording registry. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. For the first time, a video game soundtrack makes the national recording registry. It's the Super Mario Brothers theme by Koji Kondo, the list also includes the very first mariachi recordings from 1908. With a little touch of late among the albums making the cuts are Queen Latifah's all hail the Queen, Madonna's like a virgin and synchronicity by the police. Among the singles on the list are Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you, daddy Yankee's gasoline, John Lennon's imagined Jimmy Buffett's margaritaville and Led Zeppelin's stairway to heaven.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Where Would We Be Without the Left?
"You want to, you want to sit back and imagine a better world, a la John Lennon, just imagine no left. Without the left, 100 million people would not have been slaughtered. In the 20th century, I'm talking about non combatants. Without the left, vast swathes of humanity would have had a road to freedom like South Korea has. Because the left was defeated, in the southern half, of the Korean Peninsula. In the great, never mentioned Korean War. Of the early 1950s. 37,000 Americans died there. For no product produced by Korea. They died there for the product produced in America, called liberty. And now we are undoing the Korean War. We are undoing all of the battle for freedom. The battles for freedom that have been characteristic of the United States of America. So yes, you want to imagine a better world imagine one. Where your children would go to school and learn how to read and write, and be told that race doesn't mean a damn thing. I couldn't care less what color any of you students are, so it's not going to even be discussed.
AP News Radio
Schools shut, drivers stuck as gales and blizzards batter UK
"Trains were canceled, some schools were shot and drivers were stuck for hours on a major highway as a blast of snow and winds hit Britain for the second time in a week, storm la recent brought gales and blizzards to much of the UK, experts said the worst hit areas were northern England and North Wales, where 50 mph winds were recorded alongside about a foot of snow, the highway that cuts across northern England, known as the M 62, was at a standstill, as some drivers had to wait 7 hours in traffic, air travel was also disrupted, with most flights departing Liverpool John Lennon airport delayed
The Doug Collins Podcast
Bart Herbison and Doug Share Stories About Elvis
"And I share a my birthday in his death day. August 16th. August 16th, he died on my birthday. And I told the story the other day on one of the podcasts about my next door neighbor Beatty, who, again, lucky you loved Elvis and everything and she came running across all my birthday party. He's dead, he's dead. He's dead. We thought it was. I mean, I thought of her husband and died and it was Betty talking about Elvis and died. And so, you know, the sharing this. So the last part where they actually showed real video of him in those last concerts where he was bloated. He was there. I mean, some of those actually, those are memories are not memories for me. Those are actually, I saw those concerts. That's all. So it was really, really interesting to just see. Well, one last Elvis plug and a story. Peter go around a controversial author. And he was very controversial when he wrote to John Lennon book and the Elvis book too. There's two Elvis books, careless love, and last train of Memphis. There are over a thousand pages, and they're so thorough. It's like he was in the room, so he tells everything good, bad and different. And I particularly love a lot of the stories he told in the famous RCA studio B across the street from my headquarters. And here's one. I got the privilege of knowing Chad Atkins a little bit. One of my mentors, the late Joe Talbot, took me to launch at a place called I forget what it was mauds down on music grow. It's not there anymore. And chat was there. They had a standing launch every Friday they were in town. I couldn't make this up. He sit there playing his guitar at the table quietly. And I looked at Joe and he goes, that's why he's Chad and he plays everywhere. So Chad is the only major artist I've ever heard of that wanted a closing act. Chet went to bed at 8 o'clock if he could. 8 30, he was a country farmer, got up in the wee hours, three or 4 o'clock in the morning. And so Elvis is showing up late or wants to record at ten, 11, 12 may not show up, sits in their place gospel songs all night, and he can't stay awake at 2 o'clock in the morning. So he calls Elvis's team and RCA and goes, look, I like the kid. And at that time, Nashville did not embrace Elvis. They threw him off the grand Ole opry. They didn't know what he was. But Chet liked him and saw that he was about to change music, but he said, I don't care. 11 o'clock tonight, I don't remember if it was four or 5 songs we do them and we're out.
Mark Levin
Bill O'Reilly: The Unknown Dangers of Fame
"Well I do want to start with this because there's been so much going on and actually this book kind of is very relatable to events going on killing the legends the lethal danger of celebrity See that happening with Kanye West among others Incredible that when people become famous their whole lives obviously change And they become targets But in ways that many don't understand So killing the legends about Elvis Presley John Lennon and Muhammad Ali all of whom changed American culture We live today in a way that is defined by these three men in part And it's an amazing historical story People said look this is your 12 killing book all the others killing Lincoln killing your rising sun Big events Now you're going into cultural history But the history is so intense and people don't understand how celebrity can destroy you if you don't understand what's going on And let me make this personal to you Mark Levin You're famous Okay Everyone knows you Everybody knows me And because of that there are benefits but there are deficits And I think you following your career over the years understood quite readily that you could not make yourself available in a casual way And so people don't know about what you do where you are you do some book signings and that kind of thing But in you correct me if I'm wrong you understand there is a danger And looking at this is true Look at Nancy Pelosi okay And you can just every you can just stare step it There are legions of famous people
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Reveals the Effects of Musk Derangement Syndrome
"Let's turn to mister Elon Musk because he is causing the left to have a freak out. And it's a little bit interesting to think about why. Is it because, well, one thought it occurred to me yesterday and that is that Elon Musk has been really focused. He's freeing speech on the one side, but he goes, I'm really going to crack down on Twitter on pedophiles on pedophiles. And this too has freaked out the left. It's kind of interesting to see. I mean, is it because there's a substantial fraction of pedophiles in the cultural left as Elon Musk kind of nuking a wing of the left that doesn't, you know, they can't openly say, well, we're pedophiles. So what they do is they pretend I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be leaving Twitter on principle. It could be a secret reason for the leftist freak out. Here's Alyssa Milano, who, by the way, used to be a huge Elon Musk fan. I have found it fascinating. You're a couple of Milano tweets. I'm in awe of Elon Musk. And then she goes on to thanks Elon Musk and Tesla. Elon Musk you're amazing. She says that she could have dinner with four people. She picked Jesus Roberto Clemente John Lennon and Elon Musk. And then more recently, here's Alyssa Milano. I gave back my Tesla. I bought the Volkswagen. I love it. Now, what's so weird about this is first of all, she's turned on Musk. Why? Because evidently he's for free speech. That alone is enough to set her off. Number two, she buys, let's call it the Nazi car. Why? Because Vogue, if you want to talk about history, Volkswagen was started under the Nazi regime, it's in fact the word volk is a very fascist term volk means, of course, people and the Nazis who were socialists talked about the people's car, Volkswagen, the wagon of the people. So here's a list of Milana while she doesn't really know about her, but nevertheless, part of she has MDS Musk the arrangements syndrome.
AP News Radio
John Lennon's killer says there was 'evil in my heart'
"The man who shot John Lennon told a parole board he knew it was wrong to kill the beloved former beetle but that he was seeking fame and had evil in his heart John Lennon whose music lives on was gunned down outside his New York City apartment in December 1980 convicted killer Mark David Chapman was up for his 12th parole hearing in August in a transcript AP God under a freedom of information request Chapman said the decision to kill Lennon was my big answer to everything I wasn't going to be a nobody anymore He also told the board I knew what I was doing and I knew it was evil I knew it was wrong but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bill O'Reilly Calls in to Discuss His New Book 'Killing the Legends'
"With us right now is the legendary Bill O'Reilly who has a new book called killing the legends, Bill, welcome back to the program. Thanks, Emily and Charlie, what's up? Doing great. Congratulations on the new book. I feel like you have won every 6 months. It's pretty amazing. Tell us about this new one killing the legends. Yes, the subtitle is most important. The lethal danger of celebrity. And now that you are a celebrity, you need to read this book, Charlie. So every famous person in this country has a target on him or her. And the more famous you get, the bigger the target becomes. Now I wrote about Elvis Presley John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, they are the cover boys for killing the legends. Because each of those men change American culture. So American cultural history is not widely written about because most historians are snobs. But if you look at what Presley Lennon and Ali actually did, their contributions to our history are enormous, yet under reported. However, in the process of doing what they did, they all destroyed themselves.
77WABC Radio
"john lennon" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Love end. On 77 W ABC. Bill O'Reilly here and here comes the 12th killing book, killing the legends, the lethal danger of celebrity, Elvis, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, all had one thing in common. They lost control of their lives, and that led to their deaths. Killing the legends, the latest in the most successful nonfiction book series of all time. Available wherever books are sold. Paid for by Saint Martin's press. We tried dynamite for gut health and immune support, and after a couple of weeks, our little gizmo was acting like a puppy again. His coat was shinier, he had a lot less scratching and shedding and he seemed like his happy old self. My dog smelled and scratched constantly. He bathed and sprayed her, took her to the vet, but no results. Now, a little dynamite in her food helps violet keep her beautiful coat with no scratching, or smell. Get 10% off your next order of dynamite nutritional supplements for dogs and dino bit dot com. Happier, healthier with every bite over a million pets helped with dyno bites. If you want to gather and impress all those friends that you haven't seen since prom follow these instructions, open a can of Goya tomato sauce, appreciate its thickness. Start cooking some authentic tinga tacos and enjoy the unmatched flavor. Goya's Spanish style tomato sauce seasoned with a secret blend of Latin spices, so delicious that you might even feel as good as you did in high school. These tinker tacos are amazing. Wow, I feel like I'm in Mexico. Find it in the Goya section of your local grocery store. If it's Goya, it has to be good. Hi everybody, it's your customers. First, open the can of going into tomato sauce. Then I want you to take a moment to appreciate its thickness next. Start cookies almost Antigua tacos and enjoy the unmatched flavor. Going to Spanish style for me to suspect seasoned with a secret blend of Latin spices that you might even feel as good as you did. Find it in the Goya section and look for this and other amazing recipes at Goya dot com. Cousins, if it's Goya, it has to
The Eric Metaxas Show
Greg Laurie Discusses the Faith Journey of John Lennon
"To my friend pastor Greg Laurie of harvest church in Southern California, the author of many books, the new one is called Lennon Dylan Alice and Jesus spiritual biography of rock and roll. So Greg, you're sharing some fascinating stuff that John Lennon called in, I mean, I had heard that he was watching Christian TV kind of hanging out in the Dakota during this strange period in the 70s kind of raising his son there just being a house husband and watching Christian TV and that he called up Billy Graham's whatever called up the number on the screen and professed faith in Christ and then you said wrote about it in his diary. Yeah, I wrote about his new film faith in his diary and he recorded two Christian songs. If you go to YouTube and Google John Lennon comet Christian songs, you'll find that they were rough songs, one almost made it on his final album, a double fantasy. But even a double fantasy, you can see him beginning to soften. He writes in his song beautiful boy about his sunshine before you go to sleep, see a little prayer every day and every way gets better and better. John was changing. Now, here's a tragedy, and we all know that. John was murdered by Mark David Chapman. And so I begin this book with this statement. There'll be three surprises when we get to heaven. Number one, some of the people we thought would be there won't be there. Number two, some of the people we never thought would be there will be their number three, we will be there. So here's my premise on John Lennon, because I wasn't there at that moment. He did survive the shooting. They put him in the back of a police car and rushed him to the hospital. The officer asked him, do you know who you are? John did if in the final moments of his life, John called out to the Jesus. He professed faith in his prayer would have been heard just as surely as Jesus heard the prayer of the thief on the cross. So
Talk Is Jericho
"john lennon" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"The music business in a way. I think it was just that he wasn't eager for any coverage. This was also the beginning when you used to have to go through metal detectors. This was really the early days of that. So we were trooping in and out of the courtroom and because John and Yoko, the night before the trial started, John called me at the hotel where I was staying because I lived way out in New Jersey and I had to stay in a hotel. I couldn't do the commute every day. And he called me about midnight and asked me if Yoko did come and I said, oh yeah, sure, I'm sorry. I would have invited her. This was when Sean was about three months old. So they were there every day, 20 days. Wow. Spread out over January, the first part of the case was tried in January. The second part we started in March because of the judge's schedule. But he was there every day, Chris, even and so was she, even when he didn't have to testify. And he did that because he wanted the judge to know, this is an important case. This means a lot to me. It means a lot to us. So he was there every day. Was there a lot of other people in the courtroom? Sometimes you get those. Well, I'll tell you a funny story. The first day of the trial, I was raised on Long Island. My mother and my father's sister, my aunt, came to the trial. Now, my mother had never seen me in court, but never asked me to come to court, but of course I hadn't represented John Lennon in court. Right. So and he was very polite to her and he said, Yoko, Yoko. Here's Jay's mom. They were both named Helen. No, there were not a lot of people in court. Again, I think it was because we, you know, we just kind of flew under the radar with this case. You mentioned Yoko a few times. What was she like and what was her relationship with John from your observation? Well, in March, shortly after the two cases started, John called me one day and asked me, can you come up to the Dakota tomorrow, Yoko would like to meet you. And I said, oh, sure. Should I bring anything? He said, no, no. No Yoko just went to the media. So I went up, John was not there. Yoko and I talked for about an hour. She asked me about my background. What was my experience? She had read both of the complaints at this point. She asked me a lot of very pointed questions and she was very politely grilling me. But nicely. And after about an hour or so, she said, well, I'm glad we had the opportunity to talk. I appreciate your coming up. Thank you very much. And I left. But it wasn't, you may find this really interesting. It wasn't until I really started writing this book that I realized that that was an audition. Right. Yoko hadn't liked me. I would have been out. Because the two of them were really joined at the hip. I mean, I learned that more and more as the case went on. She would have just said, I don't like him, get somebody else. I don't think he can represent you. As the trial winds on and you get to near the end of it, how was it finally resolved, and did you feel good that you were going to win the case? Oh, yeah. The judge wrote us 28 page opinion on the breach of contract part. We got it from the court about 5 o'clock on a Friday night in February. And I called John and John was just ecstatic. He yelled out Yoko, Yoko. We won. And the other case, the counter claims, he decided Ian Yoko did not come to the there was a final argument after all the testimony ended. And as we were leaving and driving uptown and their willow after that, we were going to have the final argument the next day at John said, Jay, I'm not coming tomorrow. I don't want to listen to any more of Bill Sherman's or Mars levy's nonsense. And the judge had already indicated that he was going to award damages. It was just a matter of how much they were going to be. And the total damages were over $400,000 to capital EMI and John. John was about a 150,000. But Mars lawyer went behind my back and John's back and capital and EMI settled the case for $200,000. And that left us, John and I holding the bag to defend the entire appeal. Not only the breach of contract part, but also the damages that were awarded to John. And the damages to John were reduced slightly, but he still wound up with about $86,000. But it was symbolic in the sense that $86,000 in a lot of money to anybody. But the real key was that Mars levy had been stopped. In his tracks, why would they have gone behind your back and not why? But why would capital have done that and settled when they had the judgment already? I don't know. I think that capital and EMI were just tired of the legal fees. They had hired a lawyer very high priced lawyer named Barrett prettyman in Washington. Barrett prettyman was coming back and forth from Washington to New York. And also, John's contract was just about to expire. And I don't know whether they were having negotiations on the side, but I couldn't figure it out. Look at all the money, the capital and EMI had made over the years, Chris. Sure. Beatles. And from John, and they were, they were basically kind of stabbing him in the back. Now, when you say that Morris levy was stopped, it was having that kind of blemish on his record. Did that affect his, I guess, abilities to rip other artists off? Well, I think they were later lawsuits. I think what Joni Mitchell brought a lawsuit against him and stopped him. And then in 1986, he was indicted along with 17 other members of the Genovese crime family..
Talk Is Jericho
"john lennon" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Continues to not do well as a witness. The judge is losing his patience. The judge also had a reputation for rather an explosive temper. And finally, I start cross examining Mars. I'm shortly into the cross examination when my colleague Howard Roy who's working with me on the case starts pulling my jacket and pointing to leave his lawyer right at the table in front of us. And he's holding up the two virgins album with the pictures of John and Yoko on the front and back. The jury is practically hanging out of the jury box because we were in a very narrow courtroom. And I walked by Sherman's off table, grabbed the album, handed it to the judge, and they said, your honor, mister wheat, mister Sherman was showing this to the jury. The judge risk turns around. He's got the album. He turns around and he starts trying to stuff the album into a round waste paper basket. Turkman is now standing next to me and says, your honor, your honor, please, please. That's going to be one of my wits exhibits. And McMahon turned into him and said, not in my courtroom, that led to a mistrial. The judge asked us if we want to move for a mistrial. We did. And then he ensured men got in this very ugly argument baiting him to the point where he accused the judge of being biased against him. McMahon called him a wire and shared men asked him to recuse himself. And he did. So there we are. We don't have a jury. Now we don't have a judge. And the trial is interrupted. Yoko Swami was right. I said to the other lawyers, I'm going down to see chief judge Edelstein. And we all go down to chief judge Edelstein's chambers. He was not there. I dictated a memo to his secretary saying, we need another judge. By the time back to the courtroom, after lunch, we were told we had a telephone messages to go down to the courthouse and meet another judge, judge Greece. He said that judge Edelstein had signed the case to him. And if we waved a jury, he could start the trial the next day. We agreed to waive the jury quickly, shortman did also, we started the trial the next day, and the key, Chris was, this judge, judge Greece, was a Harper harpsichordist, and a pianist that he played in a classical music group, but he did not know anything about John Lennon or The Beatles. Oh, wow. Or rock and roll music. And so what we did when John and I did was, I said, we're going to your testimony. Now you're going to be able to communicate with him one musician to another. And there's a photo in the in the book taken by bob Bruin, who sneaked the camera into the courtroom one day when John was testifying in January of 1976. And if you look at that Coke photo, very closely, you can see John has his finger kind of pointing towards the judge. The judge is pointing to him and they're having a conversation about music. Levy's lawyer got desperate and kept trying to interrupt these long colleagues with a judge would be asking John questions about the music and the albums and the album jackets and everything. And it went swimmingly after that because the judge and John connected. So was it at first, did you see it as a detriment that the judge didn't know about The Beatles or John Lennon or did you see it? No. As a positive. No, I thought it was a positive. Because he was a musician. Right, right. He even said to us, I listened to a lot of music, but I don't know anything about rock and roll. What we were able to do because John was such a great witness, the best witness I've ever had. He was able to explain everything to the judge and communicate to the judge. And that's also why I put so much of his testimony into the book, Chris, because it was just fascinating. There's a lot of cool moments in that testimony just reading some of the articles that I've seen about him talking directly about each track on The Rock and roll album and why they appealed to him and why they meant something to him. Why he picked the song. Yeah, you know, bony maroney was the song that his mother taught him on the banjo before he learned the guitar. Was a song that he played or he and Paul played the first day he met Paul at that church celebration in Liverpool. He had reasons for each one of those songs, he told explain the judge to them. I remember he told me about them one day we were walking through Central Park. I said, but how did you pick these songs? How did you instill Specter, pick these songs? He said, oh, they went through the whole list, and even said to me, nobody knows these reasons except me. So how come the trial didn't get more coverage? I mean, once again, this is John Lennon here in a fight.
Talk Is Jericho
"john lennon" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Much sold everywhere. Go try them for yourselves, guys. You can thank me later. When John got you involved with this, what was your kind of relationship with him? Like kind of talking with some of the personal stories you had with John. Obviously, he spent a lot of time with him for this lawsuit. Although I was really kind of in a little bit of awe and having met John Lennon that first day and was a Beatles fan, but after we got to know each other, John was just another client. I don't mean to belittle the fact that he was John Lennon, and that this was an important case, and that there was a lot of money on the line. But I traded John like any other client. I didn't ask him for an autograph. The photo he took of he had bob grew intake of us in a restaurant where we had lunch every day, sloppy Louise. He sent me a copy of that later on. I didn't ask him for that. And we really developed a friendship and plus not that we were buddies. Chris, we weren't going to hang out and I wouldn't call him and say, you know, you want to go for a beer this afternoon. No. That's not the right answer to chip. It was a client. And a lawyer relationship. But I would take him to different parts of New York City that he'd never been to. Like the first day of his deposition when levy's lawyers took his deposition, when we had the lunch break, we were in midtown and I suggested we go to the oyster bar, which was in Grand Central station. He said, well, I've never been in Grand Central station. And as you know, he was an art student before he became a rock and roller. And he was completely taken aback by the beauty of Grand Central station. And then the oyster bar itself. And then the next day, we went to lunch at the bow and the bear, which was a restaurant in the world of pastoria, kind of an English type pub. He'd never been in the world of before. We walked through Central Park and people would leave him alone. He had one rule, press. I'll give you an autograph. I'll give anybody an autograph as long as I'm not eating. That was his, that was his rule. And the day we, the day we were walking up Park Avenue towards the Waldorf Astoria, a woman, a middle aged woman, stopped right in front of us and blocked our way and said, John, your George Harrison. John said, yes, I am. Thank you very much. Continued walking after she let us go by. And the four of us started laughing hysterically in the middle of our revenue. Did John get recognized quite a bit or was he just another New Yorker? He was just another New Yorker. I think people in New York often are used to seeing kind of celebrities. Right. And there was one day we were walking up Fifth Avenue near the Plaza hotel, and all of a sudden he stopped and said, just a minute, and he turned around and there were 5 or 6 people in back of us. And he walked back to them and he said, you've been following me. He said, it's very, very politely. I didn't know anybody was. Oh my gosh. You've been following me. What do you want? And the people said, well, we'd like an autograph. He said, okay, I'll give everybody an autograph. But then you stop following me. Okay? And he said, yes, yes. We won't follow you. There we are standing on Fifth Avenue and she's signing autographs and after he finished the ball, he said, thank you. They thanked him and off we went. It's interesting. Like, you know, when you have a semblance of fame, you can always tell when someone's watching you or following you or recognizing you. It seems to me though from what you're saying that Brian Epstein taught those guys very well to always be gracious to the fans. Like you said, I'll sign an autograph and then just stop following me, okay? Deal. Got other people to go follow me. That's rude, you know? No, I don't know who taught him that. You know, he was very polite. Yeah. There was no problem. I mean, the date that day we walked into the bull and bear, the maitre D was a tall kind of middle aged Irish man whose face lit up when he saw John. And he reached out, took John's hand and said, it's a pleasure to meet you. With a big smile on his face and John said, the pleasure to meet you too. He liked the people, but he liked the fact that in New York he could go to the movies or he could have dinner, people wouldn't believe wouldn't bother. Just kind of blend in, right? Yes. Was he a funny guy? It seemed like he had quite a great sense of humor. He had an amazing sense of humor. And he was the best witness I ever had in a number of trials that I did because we spent a lot of time Chris reviewing the facts and the facts to me as a trial lawyer.
Talk Is Jericho
"john lennon" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Bullying him, thinking that he would settle, like he settled to come together lawsuit. Well, at that point, John, as you know, as a Beatles and a John Lennon fan, John had dropped out of the music business, he was spending time at home, Yoko got pregnant. They were expecting the child in October or November of that year. And he decided after we had a number of discussions that he was he didn't want to settle with Morris. He wanted to be rid of Morris leaving because Mars had gotten his clutches on him once with this bogus come together. You can't catch me case. And And of course, capital didn't want to settle either. So off we went. The lawsuit and federal court Chris was the fatal mistake because court cases in New York Supreme Court don't move very fast, but in the federal court, particularly with the judge that got assigned to the case, Lloyd McMahon, cases move very, very fast. The judges really push these civil trials to keep their calendars in order. So that's how it started. Yeah, and then the lawsuit arisen you can't catch you is because John used to here come old flat top and that's one of the lyrics from you can't catch me. The melody line is similar, but like you said, it's pretty much a bogus lawsuit to begin with. Well, the flat top Chuck Berry was talking about a convertible. It passed him on pike. Okay. But John was talking about a man who used to have a crew cut, a crew cut. Yeah. And hair down to his knee. Right. So anyways, and like you said, then levy wanted John to do three of the songs that he owned the publishing for for The Rock and roll album. So that's kind of a little bit of the background on that. Yeah. The world is a stressful place, and that can wreak havoc on a guy's testosterone level. I mean, low testosterone is not just an old guy concerned these days, even then in their 30s or having low testosterone issues..
Talk Is Jericho
"john lennon" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Story that I've never heard of before and I'm a Beatles fanatic. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why you decided to write a book about this Jake kind of tell us how this all came about and how you decided to write this tale that no one's really ever heard. Well, I had carried around with me for 40 years, Chris, about 5 or 6 bankers boxes with the entire trial record, thousands of pages of testimony, beetles, albums, and John Lennon albums, as exhibits that we used in court and I had carried them with me for like through 5 moves and unpleasant divorce. I guess that's kind of an oxymoron. Yeah, exactly. And there they were. And they've been sitting, we live in North Carolina with a little town in the blue ridge mountains, they suddenly one day, and it was right around 5 years ago now. I began thinking, what am I going to do with these? All these files. Maybe I'll donate them to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or something like that. So I went out to the garage, and they were in a storeroom and back of the garage, and I opened the box. Chris, I had not looked at these any of these transcriptions in 40 years, and I started reading John's testimony. And I got into about a half hour reading the testimony and I thought, there's a story here. I've got to tell a story because this was a time when John had gone through his last weekend that he talked about, I met him on February 3rd, 19 75. I think I met him on the day that he went back to the Dakota for the first time. After he and yoga had been separated for about 18 months, there have been little bits and pieces about this case that I've seen in the press over the years. There was nothing going on really in terms of the press at the time of the case. There were one or two small articles in Rolling Stone. And the more I thought about it, the more I thought, I've got to tell the story because I'm the only one that can tell it because I was there. I had the files, I have the transcripts, I spent a lot of time with John. And this is too important to let it go by without telling it because and I decided early to put in a lot of his testimony because it was really fascinating testimony about he and The Beatles and how they started making records, how they produced albums. How they gradually took control of the entire process of making the albums and even, you know, that The Beatles really turned album covers into an art form, right? He gave all of that testimony about it. So let's talk about kind of what this because you were the lawyer, you were John's lawyer for this trial. Yes. And give us kind of the basis of what the trial was and kind of the whole concept behind what was going on in that courtroom. Well, it's Mars levy, who was connected to the mafia since he was Jewish. He couldn't be a member of the mafia, but he was tied to the Genovese crime family in New York City. Vincent the chin gigante was the head of the family. And he had been involved with the mafia for years. Morris was infamous in the music industry at this time for stealing royalties from singers, songwriters, a lot of black singers and songwriters. And it used to bring these bogus copyright infringement claims. And he brought one against The Beatles because of John's song, come together. The case was finally settled. He claimed that come together infringe the Chuck Berry song you can't catch me. And finally, they did a deal where John would record three of his songs, including you can't catch me. On an album of rock and roll, oldies. That's when John was recording that album at rock and roll album. Mountain California under rather difficult circumstances with Phil Spector. Specter disappeared with the master tapes. Wow. It took about 8 or 9 months to get them back. John in the meantime recorded his album, walls and bridges, and then levy said, where am I three songs? They're not on walls and bridges. They had a meeting and during that meeting, levy claimed that John made an oral agreement to let himself The Rock and roll album on TV on a worldwide basis. It was nothing in writing, Chris. Gotcha. There's been oral agreement and there wasn't such an oral agreement because John and his adviser at the time of felony Harold cider told levy, if we want to do this, we'll have to get EMIs permission. So John, one of the things I found out about him was that first, he does not like saying no to people. He's very shy. And lady kept harassing him about when am I going to listen to my songs? He knew that John was in the studio in New York recording the album. And finally, John gave him a rough mix of the unfinished album, and then levy put out that album. And he called it John Lennon sings the great rock and roll songs brutes. Wow. Right before that was when I met John because levy was threatening to put out this album. So I went to a meeting at capital on February 3rd. I was capital's offices on February 3rd, 1975, and halfway through the meeting, the door to the conference room opened and who walked in, but John Lennon. I had no idea he was going to be at the media. Oh, wow. You can imagine I started listening to rock and roll in the mid 50s when I was in high school and I was a big Beatles fan and I thought, oh boy. This is Jonathan. So levy, what's out the album? We rushed the capitol album into production. And just to clarify the album, was called rock and roll. That's the name of the album. Well, John Lennon, rock and roll. Rock and roll. Yeah. Levy's was called roots. Gotcha. So out comes the capital album, leaving pulls the advertising for his album, and then files a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court, claiming that he had this oral agreement with John. Oh, wow. But then two weeks later, he filed another case in the federal court in New York, claiming that there was a violation of the federal antitrust laws because John capitol EMI and Apple records had conspired to prevent him from selling the album. So we had two lawsuits at the time. Now, that is never happened to me in my career as a trial lawyer. Nobody's ever brought two actions. I kind of came to the conclusion that Morris was.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How Judeo Christian Values Abolished Slavery
"So this man wrote about how it is such a farce. These judeo Christian principles, after all, they defended slavery. While the principles did not defend slavery, they were Christians who did, but the judeo Christian principles do not defend slavery. And because he's not the terribly bright, he didn't ask the more important question not who defended slavery, as it was defended all over the world, including in Africa. But who abolished slavery and then you turn out, turns out to be your Christian or judeo Christian value keeping people value preserving people. To not recognize how good America has been in comparison to other places, since I don't compare America to heaven. Or to imagine, I don't know how the tune goes. You know how the tune goes, John Lennon's imagine. Have you ever sung on radio? No. Would you like to break that record? No. Okay. Sean, we almost got the living martyr to sing, but that would have been an active martyrdom. Well, therefore. Yeah, I missed it. They're really not by much. I thought I had a chance. I don't know. I have to think about that that I think I have a chance. Yes, they imagine this. Place devoid, not just devoid of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia transphobia, et cetera, no, no, no, no. They imagine a place that is painless.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
To Fix Inflation, Be Like John Lennon
"If you, based on your last comment, if you could enter the world of John Lennon and reimagine, not now he didn't say re and imagine an ideal economic policy structure for the country. That could begin to get us out of this horrible mess. What would it be? I'm bound by Thomas soules vision, which is a constrained vision because there is no perfect and there's no pain free scenario. And yet to answer your question, I would stop doing the things that made it bad. And I would start doing more of the things that made it good. So if you're in a ditch quit digging, do not spend above your means anymore. We can not pay back all of this debt immediately, but we can stop running up the debt immediately. That's the number one biggest issue. The Federal Reserve only needs to be such an important part of the economy because the government spends out of control. The government spends out of control because the people seem to want them to.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
What Happened to Pamela Anderson's Face?
"Did you see the interview the other day Pamela Anderson and a new husband, Dan hey Hearst? Schmuck, Dan, hayhurst, who left his wife in three kids to one from building pants deck to fucking the former Baywatch babe. All his wife and kids had no idea. I mean, his wife had dinner with Pam. They became friendly. And this asshole decides to stop. I mean, things like that can happen. I'm sure that marriage wasn't good in some capacity. But he really looks like an asshole on top of looking like an asshole physically. Now he looks that way more in a broader sense. But I watched this video of an interview they did. Some British show called loose women, which that's kind of funny in itself, to be interviewing Pam Anderson, a show called loose women. And they call her up and she's in bed. She and Dan answer the phone while under the covers, which, by the way, John Lennon and Yoko Ono did this S.W.A.T. 40 something years ago. 50, maybe. Come up with something new, Pam. It just, you know, the whole thing of being in bed with your new husband, you're 6th fucking husband. It's getting tiresome. And I didn't know it was Pam Anderson at first. I thought they were interviewing dame Judi Dench. That's what Pam is turning into. I mean, I don't know if that's her face without makeup or if this is just what she settled on with cosmetic procedures. I have no idea what option is saddest. But ladies, you got to stop injecting bullshit into your cheek into your cheekbones. It looks like you got two hamburger buns below your eyeballs. Do you think men think that your natural look? You need to know, you don't look like you're younger, you look like someone who does a lot of cosmetic
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"john lennon" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Wow you know I sat down but all those years And wrote songs with John Lennon And now And then went and on stage and appeared all over the world singing them together you know Well I don't have to pay similarly with George Yeah Torture Harrison Well I was leaving my house this morning And there's a tree George was very into horticulture He was a really good gardener So he gave me a tree as a president It's a big poetry And it's by my gate He comes the sun here comes the sun it's all right You know I was leaving the house this morning I got out the car closed the gate and look up at the tree and say hi George There he is and growing strongly And then you know that takes me back to the time when I hitchhiked with him And all you know there's an ever present presence and that's the way to say It's all right I love the idea too that they are family and like family as the years go past the things they did that annoy you and get on your nerves it fades and you're able to remember The good times and the laughter and the conspiratorial grins That's lovely I think that's true They don't happen to you Oh yeah Oh yeah There's truth to absence mixed hardware And I love the tree That's a great idea That's a great thing That it greets you when you come in As I say it's lovely He gave it to me so I just plan to do it.
AP News Radio
NASA's asteroid hunter Lucy soars into sky with diamonds
"NASA launches its Lucy spacecraft on a twelve year quest to explore some of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids one of the atlas five rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Saturday morning submission is the first to aim for the thousands of not millions of asteroids that share Jupiter's expansive orbit around the sun scientists believe the Trojan asteroids may hold clues about the formation of our solar system they named Lucy after the three point two million year old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia which was in turn named after the Beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds in a pre recorded video for NASA Ringo Starr paid tribute to John Lennon Johnny will love that I'm Julie Walker
The Eric Metaxas Show
Matt Rosenberg: There Is a Problem of Moral Authority in the City of Chicago
"I'm talking to matt rosenberg from chicago and the book is what next chicago. You're just telling us something really nuts. You're seeing that mayor lori lightfoot Was quoting john lennon's beautiful but insipid song. Imagine in response to some killings. Tell us more about that just so that we understand what in what context was she doing this right while i put it this way that she is channeling john lennon. She did not name him what she did. Say after a mass shooting. In which a number of people were killed was it's a whole essentially. She said it's a whole different ballgame if we don't have all these guns around and the absurdity of that is that it's the proclivity to shoot a gun for spurious reasons. That is the real issue here. I think common commonsense observers understand that so the hard part here is going back to a failure among parents. You know the hard part here to me is the issue of what i like to call in eric. This was growth experience for me. I had to confront. What is the central problem here. And i realized it's centered around something that i decided i would call moral authority. This is probably an area in which you have some experience of thinking and writing and and analyzing i realized it's a pretty basic definition what that what's constituted within that but there are maybe only five percent of chicago's one million households that are not living with moral authority but that's a large enough number to affect a tyranny of the minority which means it's not safe to be out on the streets which means that schools k twelve public schools are in state of disorder. Where police are required to be onsite breaking up fights guarding students against violence from other students. There's a great pressure on the county court system because of a small relatively small handful of miscreants who have an outsized effect on the city's so there is a problem of moral authority in the city
AP News Radio
Paul McCartney says John Lennon responsible for Beatles breakup
"Paul McCartney says he did not break up the Beatles I merges our letter with the latest Curti tells BBC radio four it was John Lennon who ended the Beatles or as he calls them our Johnny McCarty has often been blamed for the break up McCartney says part of the confusion comes from their manager who wanted them to keep quiet so he could finish several business deals McCarty says Lennon walked into a room one day and said I am leaving the Beatles McCartney ads is that instigating the split or not he says he was said about the break up because they were still making pretty good
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Lennon Interview to Schoolboys, Songs, to Auction in Denmark
"A cassette tape with a thirty three minute audio recording of a John Lennon interview useful a school newspaper report we auctioned in Denmark later this month off a century ago full Danish teenagers interviewed them the recording including on a power on publish song by the late Beatle one of the team's remembers that it was the height of the Vietnam War and the Cold War that him and his wife Yoko Ono had a message of peace he says and that was important to us the teams managed to get an old jeans but lemon where he played and sung with no give peace a chance and a new one radio piece the items the tape twenty three still photos and a copy of the school paper estimated to be worth at least thirty one thousand dollars I'm Charles de Ledesma
DISGRACELAND
"john lennon" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"He wanted to know. If yoko ono and john lennon had his money the money he had demanded in the he sent back november. John and yoko got this letter right. Of course it. So where was his hundred grand. He wanted to know. December ninth was the date they were supposed to get them the hundred grand and now it was fifteen minutes december tenth. They were late. Where was the money yoko stalled. Of course she knew about the letter. The letter was written by people claiming to be the puerto rican independence movement. They described themselves as terrorists and took responsibility for explosions in several major cities in the us. Even though they didn't site specific incidents they bemoaned money problems within the organization and thus we're hoping to solve said money problems by extorting. One of new york's most rich and famous couples. That letter had set. Yoga's anxiety on eleven. As new yorkers didn't already have enough to fear in nineteen seventy seven. The city was still recovering from the shocking murders at the forty four. Caliber killer aka. The son of sam had committed putting every borough on high alert during one of the hottest summers on record. The letter brought that powerless. Feeling of fear. Right back as well as the feeling of paranoia. The same feeling that yoko and john regularly experienced at the start of the decade when federal agents were monitoring their every move the self-described terrorist letter had demanded that john and yoko leave one hundred thousand dollars in a quote unquote strong package in the lobby of the dakota. The letter gave john and yoko nine days to get the money together. December ninth and of. John and yoko didn't do as the letter instructed. The would be extortionists. Threatened to kidnap or even kill one of them. Were they go after. John yoko sean. It was crystal clear that these people weren't above kidnapping a two year old. John brought the letter to the fbi which he knew was more than a bit ironic given the fact that he and the fbi had been mortal enemies just a few years earlier. The feds agreed to help and tapped john. And yoga's phone again ironic. Given the last time the feds tapped the couple's phone. It was to build a case against them. Undercover agents went to work the dakota the feds posted armed guards. They arranged to get the requested. Hundred grand rolled it up a newspaper and left in the lobby of the dakota on december. Night thus instructed. The feds had enough agents haunting the place that when the so-called puerto rican independence movement came to collect there would be easily tracked and apprehended in. John and yoko could put this harrowing experience behind them in stop fearing for the life of their toddler son but no one ever came to claim. The money hours went by soon. The feds were concerned that the money might be accidentally taken by someone else who wasn't even involved in the shakedown so they took the money. Back can remain vigilant later. That night is. Yoko received the call. They were late where it was. The money go tried to explain that the money had been prepared for them as requested but seeing nobody ever picked it up it took it back for safekeeping. The caller got impatient. You've made a big mistake. He said right before he hung yoga hoped in vain. That the whole thing would just go away. It didn't or we glitter another letter arrived at the coda. This particular letter informed john and yoko that back on december nine is the day that the money was do. Twenty eight members of the puerto rican independence movement had surrounded the dakota building around eleven. In the evening there were all armed to ensure they had proper backup while they sent him a man to collect the quote unquote strong package from the lobby. There were expecting an ambush from the police. But of course there was no ambush and there was also no strong package of money. The puerto rican independence movement were disappointed in the wealthy celebrities they were trying to extort and they told john and yoko so in the letters that followed the fbi continued their surveillance. Nothing out of the ordinary happens. And they ran latent prints from the envelopes and paper and their lab. No matches as weeks turned into months and the letters and phone calls stopped. The fbi eventually decided. The john and yoko were no longer any danger. The feds wondered if there ever was any danger at all. John and yoko weren't sure if they should take the american government's reassurances at face value seeing is how this was the same government that spent an incredible amount of man. Hours in taxpayer dollars in the nineteen seventies trying to deport a beetle for promoting peace. So their feelings of true safety came and went because this was new york city. It didn't sleep anything went. You.
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"john lennon" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"I lived john for john not for being famous or being. A beatle aren't any. I don't even know. John lennon the beatles when i first met him which people.
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"john lennon" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"On the horizon. The tabloids eventually got wind of their affair and for fans news their favorite beetle leaving his perfect family for someone they saws and no talent. Gold digger did not sit well. John and yoko didn't care. This emerged themselves into the gooey. Hayes of new love lived on a diet of champagne. caviar and heroin it moved in together and to jimi hendrix is old flat at monte. Hugh square almost immediately. Things went south in the early morning hours of october. Eighteenth nineteen sixty eight. John lennon received a call from a beatles. Fan employed by london's corrupt drug squad. The inside man. Hip john off that is flat was about to be rated by them. Torius detective norman pilcher. John naked in a haze from the previous party sprung from bed through on a rope in immediately. Freak the fuck out. He began rummaging through the house. To find and dispose any all doping paraphanelia the place previously being lived in by hendrix had john particularly nervous who knew which nook which cranny jimmy squirrel to stash away heroin. Lsd cocaine hashish marijuana morphine benz g all. The infants were eventually rounded up by john while yoko barked orders from ben then at eleven fifty five. Am doorbell rang. John was midway through furiously. Flushing stashed on the toilet. His anxiety spite. Yoko went through the door. John hovered above the toilet. Shaking a bag of heroin called out his best old lady voice. Yoko did the same considerably less humid and a female voice the other side. The front door said it was the postal service. The package yoga opened the door crack peek through realize the woman was no postal worker and immediately slammed. The door shut took off back toward john. Bath yoko was screaming. John police john. The police john was shouting yoko. Call the solicited cops. Renou everywhere leering in through the windows yelling to john and yoko let them in john stahl by yelling out that he demanded to see a warrant all the while continuing to flush more and more drugs down the toilet. Eventually after john was satisfied that all the drugs were disposed of in a war was produced and he was able to take the piss out of the situation by pantomime and read through the document. John allowed the police to search the flack but despite his best efforts authorities were still able to turn has sheesh we and a half grandma murphy john and yoko or busted london's favorite son had fallen from grace i over jesus now over the switch it got worse following the arrest. John oku decided they were to get married in gibraltar near spain. They drove from paris to the amsterdam. Hilton talked.
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"john lennon" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"Guests. Were seated next to each other on the love seat staring at mark mouth slightly agape looks on their faces makes shock and easement the volume. Music is now deafening. Mark stop pacing moment and now stood in front of the record. He closed his eyes and brought his class hands to his chest. His left foot rooted firmly living room. Shag carpeting he attempted to raise his rifle to inner thigh. The result was a sort of half ass tree posts. The music blared and now. The chapman's guests were openly laughing. At merck was oblivious. Zenda nerd can finally achieve class clown status obey from the comfort of his own home and with his audience laughing for all the wrong reasons. Mark shabby kept his eyes closed in the vision to see a little people. Celebrate giving him a parade him mark. David chapman from decatur georgia. Now blah hawaii. He then felt a wave of happiness. Wash over him his next vision a warm gun in the palm of his hand. It was too much. He lost his balance and teetered over into the. Hi fi knocking the needle off the record. When the music stopped mark was jarred back to reality by the sounds of his two guests laughing at them and to the sight of his wife. Now not just embarrassed scared. Mark lost it. The little people in his head erupted into a chorus of disapproval. The voices were nonstop now. Deafening the world went black. He felt it moving just beyond his thoughts with saw nothing blackness. He heard familiar voices on the other side but couldn't make out what they were saying and they quickly trailed off into the distance then. A high pitched ringing sound pierce through him. Bring with an torrent of rage. He felt it well up in his chest. His ears burned loud. Thuds penetrated the piercing ring in this chattering. Voices in his head. He could feel himself spinning faster. Faster loud thuds continuing to breakthrough. He felt his hands. There are wet with blood. The thudding sound came into focus. They sounded familiar now. Like flesh smacking up against something unforgiving. the sound of each new thud brought fresh pain. Not emotional physical pain and as the pain grew the blackness feed mark noticed the pinprick of light and held focus on spinning started to stop the pinprick expanded and mark. Follow the light in the thuds continued until it was all he could hear no more voices no more darkness. Blood was all he could see. He fall the side of the blood out of the darkness and covered the wall of his bathroom. He felt throbbing pain in his hands and look down at them. They look more like to country. Hands in the did hands bloodied and beaten to a pulp. From repeated blows to his bathroom wall the side of them sick and mark with shame. He closed his eyes and again so the gun in his hand felt that warm feeling of happiness and promptly passed out cold on his bathroom floor. Mark david chapman came to. He found himself sitting alone on his bedroom floor and lotus position. He quieted the voices in his head and crawled out of the blackness. Hell he even managed to somehow bandages hands and now now. His world was calm the record player in his room. This one was one of those portable suitcase. Numbers with the built in speaker was playing the beatles. Sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club but not at the normal speed mark sped it up to forty five rpm and at this increased speed. The record sounded less like the beatles. More like the voices and mark's head manic intense insane mark closed size took it all in began chanting his name. Is john lennon. I'm going to kill you. Only best john lennon. I'm going to kill you foamy bastard. John lennon i'm going to kill you. The phone bast john lennon. Going to kill you. We'll be right back after this word word were everybody. Are you looking for an easy and afford a way to keep your home safe. Protect your home with ring alarm. The singers awesome to get a special offer but a ring dot com forward slash disgrace land. 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Every culture has its own unique set of traditions and personalities but two aspects of culture that bring us together yet set us apart our music in food and counter jam podcasts from food fifty two is bringing conversations about cultural identities in human connection through food and music to the table. It's like a podcast hosted by food culture expert in musician. Peter jay kim counter jam explores the nuances of cultural identity through music and thoughtful conversations with guests like chef. Roy choi musician and fema kuti actress and activists salama glazer and more. When i listen to counter jam i lived here. Michelle's honor japanese breakfast. Talk about haraman preference sir. Listening to different guests bond with cultural food. They grew up with plus. This podcast is a great place to discover and rediscover great music with counter jam. You'll laugh you'll cry. Discovery incredible music fun counter jam. Where ever you. Listen to your favorite podcast. John lennon started to come unhinged in nineteen sixty five unlike his bandmates the consummate professional people pleaser paul mccartney or the soulful george harrison or the comical. Ringo starr john lennon had deep dark demons. Beatles fans got their first peak at these demons with the release of the song help in nineteen sixty five. The song from lennon's perspective was a literal cry for help fame. Driven the young star to a corner self-doubt doubt alienating and he was searching for a way out through his music and luckily for lennon's fans this search would continue throughout his tenure in the beatles and the result would be some of the greatest music ever made before lennon called the walrus or lucy in the sky. He called out jesus christ in an interview with the london evening standard. John lennon in an offhand remark said quote. Christianity will go. We're more popular than jesus. I don't know which we'll go. I rock and roll christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples with thick ordinary. The blowback was in kansas especially in america fans burn beatles records american. Dj's organized boycotts and protests at the band's concerts leonard and understand with all the fuss was about and did his best to explain himself but the damage was done. The word was out. These weren't just for lovable. Mop top seeing about teenage innocence anymore and the outrage over lennon's christ comments proved to be child's play compared to the backlash over lennon's involvement with yoko. The witch john lennon left his wife. Cynthia and their young son julian for avant-garde artists yoko ono in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. Yoko had designed her hostile. Takeover of the lennon's in order to climb through the ranks of the international hop world. Being seen on the john lennon meant prestige power in instant fame. Ona was heavy with ambition in lake talent and nine hundred sixty five andy warhol comment to filmmaker paul morrissey that the shameless self promoter. Yoko ono was to his great annoyance. Quote always around always copying someone else's are but by nine hundred sixty eight. It's in. Yoko had cast john lennon under her spell completely hopeless. Andy were homes. Fifteen minutes could go pound sand ono herself. A real life deal in a lifetime of fame fortune.
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"john lennon" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"Honolulu's luxury coup plaza apartment building. Didn't do much socializing n even less hosting mark was intense. A big man smart articulate at times compassionate but lately prone to sudden fits of rage filled with bizarre proclamations picked up from trips. Down the john lennon rabbit hole he'd recently discovered hosting for the chapman's was an attempt at normal spam. Masugi appetizers in my ties were on the menu. So gloria chapman concerned herself with being a good hostess but what was most on. Her mind was her husband's behavior. It was a small group two of their friends. A couple were on their way over. And gloria chapman prayed husband would keep it together and not embarrass her. It was early october. Nineteen eighty mark. David chapman was spiraling into madness and toward an uncertain fate but in the last few weeks at least found a purpose john lennon is full of shit and he hasn't made anything worth listens to beetles. Now listen to that that's music. Todd rundgren latest long player to face the music by his band. Topi blared from chapman's new pioneer xl. Turntable the record player like the record was brand. New market destroyed the old one a couple months back in fit of rage. This was a superior record player anyway and to mark david. Chapman rundgren satirical. Send up of john lennon on to face. The music was superior to anything lennon had released since the beatles. Todd rundgren was the antilock. Rundgren had taken it upon himself. Speak truth to pop culture power. Todd rundgren the immensely talented american musician and producer had made a career out of pushing limits of pop songs as well as the limits of pop star and to him john lennon had turned out to be a fraud. A fake gays in the sixties lennon's songs and devil-may-care swing pop stardom had broken the mold but in the seventies lennon proved to be ordinary contented by his cult of personality his limousine liberalism in uneven post beatles. Creative output rundgren believed that john lennon had sold out the musical promise of the beatles for middle age economic stability. He become exactly what he wants. Railed against young angry counterculture activists with sharp wit in intoxicating primal. Scream hold up. Manhattan's prestigious dakota apartments with his army of servants. Macrobiotic dinners champagne cocktails and cocaine. Appetizers addicted to daytime television and lording over real estate empire that included much of upstate. New york in a good portion of southern florida for lennon. Fan like rundgren. This all seem to touch too passive a touch too safe for a one time. Revolutionary musical renegade but. Hey whatever gets you through the night. Todd rundgren hit the lethargic. John lennon word hurt to face the music. The album was the latest haymaker a public round of spatting between rendering and lenin the to had been going at it since the mid seventies verbally slapping each other back and forth in the pages of melody maker lennon going so far as to contribute a historical op. Ed entitled an open letter to saad rental stunt but run. Get the best of mine. He deployed his favorite weapons of choice against the ex. Beatle music and satire defaced. Music is incredibly witty and a pitch perfect mockery of well-known lennon mccartney tropes meant to take the piss out of the sacred cow beatles it is so expertly written and produced that it sounds like something. The old john lennon would have produced to take the piss out of the new john lennon. And because of this it drove. John lennon mad here was this little runt and upstate new york doing john lennon better than john lennon. And what the fuck it was powerful stuff and it fueled mark david chapman who was in the market for mark so he locked into the anger and found his own manic utopia interface the music and focused all of his pent up self loathing on the former beadle whom he wants like rundgren idolized chapman had been following. The lenin run rundgren beef in the press and despite his childhood loved the beatles he chosen to ride for rundgren. Todd is god. Mark closed his eyes and took in the music. It calmed him. It made him believe in something. Something real quieted. The army voices in his head. The voices the told him he was nothing a nobody. The voices the told him. This world was nothing more than a living hell filled with phonies and charlotte's the voices. The told them to do it. Do it doo doo. Doo doo Gloria was on pins and needles. They'd run out of rom and thus no more monetize probably just as well but mark was visibly growing more and more agitated pacing in front of his new high fives pumping out rendering at high volume. Now pulling of brown bag cannon fosters sweat visible on his forehead his nerdy glasses sliding dentist. Pasty white knows his greasy. Bangs partially obscuring manic. Look in his eyes. I'm telling you todd runs. Music is where it's at listened to that seriously. Listen to that. Mark was working himself into a lather. His friends if you could call them that and they are more like acquaintances. Look down with mild amusement. Gloria was dying inside. She knew where this routine was going. And it wasn't going anywhere good for the past. Few months she'd been on the receiving end of her husband's rants against john lennon and they nearly always ended with mark erupting in violence and gloria questions. Wellness mark road the volume. Hi-fi listen to that. Can you feel it.
Planet LP
Episode 29 Drew Harrison On Sounding Like John Lennon
"Look just like them. You know because because because we're we do so much trying to sound like them hamburg energy musical authenticity. That's kind of our credo and hamburg energy is rock and roll and that was the day of the clubs just passionate out reckless abandoned with the four four time signature and a backbeat. Just go but you do have to study and you do have to listen to songs and you have to listen to them over and over again over time you get it and there's one other thing that that i think is kind of important i don't try to go. I'll get all up in the way that stuff and play that. I try to just without sounding so self-important singing like john lennon. That's after all it's about catching the bird in his voice. And i had that burr well You know there's this little just a scream like sorry about that. I was impressed level. That could be my ringtone have already
Pantheon
"john lennon" Discussed on Pantheon
"I don't know but here we are And i didn't bring a brian epstein any my episodes because i knew john was like the one who would take the cake with that because he had the closest relationship to him. He wasn't there manager when he died right like they replaced him. They don't think they had yet or he. I think he took a backseat things. and i don't think he was really okay with this whole like hurry. She phase. we're going through so he was kinda like yeah. I'm just going to step back. You guys are clearly into this. I don't like this lsd thing. I don't think it has to do with them. Starting up all records. But i probably 'cause yeah i i i honestly don't not gonna walk out mass because i don't know but either way i thought yeah either way. His death was really sad. And i knew it really affected john that he had a crazy life. Dude was only twenty when he asked to be their manager. Honestly brian steen. She got his own episode. Oh yeah absolutely. Because he and he was one of the very very very few people that was out Let alone like out. And doing and success ended. Successful things like that in showbiz especially. Yeah yeah wow. I dunno johnson very complicated person extremely complicated. There's so many layers. i think he's gonna get a lot worse than the think. Young is no has yang is really gonna overflow is yang in the next one. There's the next episode is just going to be like. And then he cheated on this person and then he cheated on this person and then each year on this it was never his fault and never hit amazingly. It was never his fault. His failed relationships whether they be romantic or friendships. We're never his fault. Yeah and he also gets involved with some shady people. Oh yeah think. I've brought them up a couple times. So like a spoilt forgets. His name's harry nelson harry nilsson. Also harry nilsson in the apartment of death like we'll my god actually kinda feel bad for him now. God damn it. I don't know that now. I can't tell if we should feel bad for harry nilsson or not. Maybe we can do an episode on him decide. Then yeah you're right. We know who is the really the real big catalyst for john the pirates. It was all the piracy. The pirates are the mvp of this episode so and as far as we know alf is still hanging with the pirate for how we'll talk about often the next. Yeah we'll get into al. He'll come back elf. Do we.
Pantheon
"john lennon" Discussed on Pantheon
"Because you are living your best in life as a dink right now and also bobby is doing his part. He's being a father. John and alpha. Isn't bobby is supporting julia. And john. and alf isn't so who's more of a father right now. Alf because biologically i logically in the name of the dole. Has that paper from the registrar's office says yo alf you the dad. They got maury povich up in here going out. You are the father and then linda. Linda julia's like i told you. I told you my money. I told you then hsun then fuck and made me. He's like this. Why are we on maury. Who's more rain hard. This sounds scandalous. Vogue fucking mimi i can. She wasted no time trying to turn john into a small version of her. She wanted him to be a prim. Proper child only speaking when spoken to seen and not heard so as a teenager. Of course jon is going to rebel against the rules for your john. John grew into a troublemaker at quarry bank high school pulling girls hair pranking teachers and often getting sent to detention and even wrote his own newspaper called the daily howl which is apparently more like scandalous drawings of teachers and other students and like making fun of them and drawing pictures of weird creatures and stuff like that. I would have loved this. Yeah i totally woken friends with john in high school. And i'm like yeah. This is great. keep it up. He and his best. Bud pete shot in would skip school often and sometimes they would sneak off to julia's house for the day. Which made julia pleased as punch hong. She was chuffed as buffs. She was john would secretly visit julia and his younger half sisters. Julia and jackie often has he could without mimi. Finding they're both named julia. Okay both named julia never never made that connection till right now and mike way what yeah. There's a weird about a weird in the shit. They have a lot of female juniors in their family to it's weird progressive. sure furry. These visits were especially productive. As julia began teaching her son to play music yay banjo. Piano all instruments. That julia was taught to play by her father years before and mamie would sit in her room. Julius playing music again. How dare she. I'm going to read my bible. How sinful scandalized. Not in my house. It was a wonderful way to bond with a son she rarely got to see at thirteen. John was a brazen teenager. He was not taking anybody's shit anymore. John started blatantly visiting his mother. Mimi be damned. Yes good for you john. But it wasn't enough. It was difficult to explain to other children. While you live with your aunt and family live right down the street And john was constantly reminded that he was different which is toll on kids mental health By the time john was fourteen plans were starting to form about how he could live with julia again. But tragedy would strike that summer. While john was in scotland on his yearly pilgrimage to visit family his uncle george mimi's husband died abruptly from psoriasis of the liver what he's only fifty two but like how much was he drinking. It was from drinking. He didn't drink at all. I didn't know it was just like so. just have. yeah it was he. I guess they also call it a hemorrhage of the liver. Aw so he just had something else that they didn't know about. that's awful..
Pantheon
"john lennon" Discussed on Pantheon
"Mimi cut whiff of these shenanigans and was like nah not in my house. Were they in her house. No that who cares me me. Get the fuck out. She acted like it was her house. Mimi yeah fucking worst. Tamimi julian bobby were in a sinful relationship and it was a situation. John should not be in ho. Who on my stars. Mimi and their father convinced. Julia let john stay at mimi's until a better could be arranged. John's like four. He isn't gonna fuck yeah. He doesn't know he's just happy to be there. Two weeks later. Alf came back. What just out of nowhere. He's like a back. Everybody happy now. Judy i've come back. I was out by poets poets. Julia poi- totally implausible. Excuse promise this was definitely employ. Sounds like an episode of blackadder. It's fucking rowena. No he's playing julia and then comes in his health like a promise. It was pirates pirates. But al saw the situation and thought. Hey i have a great idea. I'm going to kidnap my own son and whisk him away to new zealand to start a new life. Perfect solves everything. What yeah. That's not a solution at all. Luckily julia found them at alps. Brother's house in blackpool. Before he could emigrate with john new zealand. Holy shit roque of brilliance. That totally wouldn't have a lasting impression on a five year old boy for the rest of his life out told john he had to choose between his mother and his father. Homa which one did john want to live with for the rest of all of course he initially chose his father the parent. He was missing most of the time horse. But as soon as julia walked out the door in a flood of tears john had second thoughts and chose her mother his mother instead and he wouldn't see his father again for another twenty years. I'm actually surprised this ause father at all this time dislike ever again like yes like this is some total rad. Dad territory where you feel like. Oh i go. I saw him twenty years later. Oh yeah lake because he was a beetle at that point i'm had money and now he can go around and be like yeah. That's my son there..
KOA 850 AM
"john lennon" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Mandy Connell. 303713 85 85 our telephone number. Go right back to the phones in Westminster, Bob, You're on k Way. News radio. What do you think? Oh, at some humorous play on words for you. Okay, Uh and I'm in a bad area, So if it drops to calls, say, lovey, um First humorous play on words. I got a job at the bakery because I needed dough. Very good. I like that. Thank you Used to be. I used to be a banker, but I lost interest. Very good. Like that. If you have a bladder infection, you're in trouble. That's like that. Did you hear about the New York City Police Department? Someone broke in and stole all their toes, and the police still have nothing to go on. They have nothing to go on. A very good I have heard that one yet. Okay? Broken are pointless. Yes. Did you hear about the cross eyed schoolteacher quit her job because she couldn't control her pupils. Like that, too. Okay? I couldn't be a doctor because I didn't have any patients. Very good. Okay, Let's see, Uh, think that's infernos. I liked all of them, and I've usually couple of him. I'll add the ones I haven't used yet to my list, though. All right. Thank you, Bob. And I just have a suggestion. Sure, Mike, if I may, uh is there any chance the program director whoever the power bi to the insert the song What the world lead needs now is love sweet Love. I think that would be very apropos for the times we're in right now. Is that what the world needs? How about what the world needs now is love, sweet love. Well, that is kind of idealistic, But that would be nice. We have to change a lot of the fundamentals. President. Yeah, Different President. How about How about Imagine, Remember that John Lennon's stores song Imagine Vaguely beetle sleep. Well, it has a similar theme. As a matter of fact, I once wrote a column about that deconstructing the lyrics to imagine on if I have time. Perhaps I'll revisit that this morning. If Of time allows. Okay, Thanks your phone call. All right. Thanks for being there. Three hours. 3713 85 85 our telephone number Reckon Wheat Ridge. What's on your mind? Hey, Mike. I can't top all these fun for heaven's sake. Let it nice to see that the church is going long is all this cruiser violent story. Okay, ritual. We're going to a wedding last week. In the past, he says, I pronounce you husband and wife. You may not ignore the bride. Okay? That's good. That's all I got. My good. All right. Appreciate it. We've got who do we have? I've got Bob in Westminster. Is that right on line three, or do we really do that? Oh yes, Bob. Yes, Europe. Oh, this is writing this down. I'd like to talk to Mike. Okay, Ron, you're on the air. Go right ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know my problem thing time I heard radio. That's why there's a delay. Yes. Good to talk to you. Listen to use forever. Um We have some business is my wife and I go to Um and people who are running the business don't wear masks. I guess I could report him, but Um, is there a gentler way to say it like maybe calling him or something? And just Explain it to them. Well, I don't think they're receptive to it necessarily. Some people are so set in their mind about this that they don't want to take that vaccine or where we're a mascot. I think a mask is a panacea. There's a dispute about under what circumstances and how much it helps, but it can't hurt. So I don't mind doing it in public places. You know the earlier color. I think your name was Cindy, who was relaying something Your daughter said to the effect that business can't control what you do if you want to enter, like wearing a mask, and I think they probably can Uh, Businesses may well require that people get vaccine. In order to come to work. I don't know that there's anything preventing them from doing that. I don't think it's it's discrimination that falls under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and businesses or private entities, they could impose all kinds of conditions on employees. I was on a flight back in November on the Southwest, and they required that passengers wear a mask. I didn't mind and I wore my mask. If they can require that you wear a mask. Maybe they can require that you be vaccinated. Get on a plane. Yeah, And I'm with you. I think people need to do vaccinations because I mean, it just seems like social media has all these things they say about anti vaxxers and it's just go with the science, for goodness sakes, and that's it's necessary that huge fraction of the population Gets vaccinated in order create to create herd immunity, and that's the way we get past the other kinds of pandemics and plagues in the past. All right, Thanks. Your phone call. I did find My I was, by the way I in the 19 sixties, I was moving on from fifties do up to other things that we're taking their place, including the Beatles. And I like a lot of the Beatles stuff. I don't like all of it, and I certainly didn't like John Lennon and Yoko Ono is politics and I thought that one song Imagine Uh, looking at it Rationally was one of the dumbest collections of wishful thinking. Utopian, naive, idealistic, uh, prescriptions that anybody's ever heard. So here's Here's my deconstruction lyric by lyric. Or verse by verse of John Lennon's Imagine. He wrote. Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us above us. Only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. All right. Let me go after that that verse even if you don't believe in rewards or punishment in the hereafter responsible adults don't just live for today. They defer gratification and.
Today in True Crime
The Timothy Leary Conviction
"On january twenty first nineteen seventy former harvard professor and so called priest of lsd timothy. Leary was sentenced to ten years in prison on drug smuggling charges but in september of that year. The fifty year-old academic broke out of a san luis obispo facility with the help of the weatherman. The daring escape only added to the mystique of the man president. Nixon wants declared the most dangerous man in america. But just what made leery so dangerous. Well it might not surprise you. That richard nixon may have been exaggerating for his own political game according to authors. Bill minna tag. Leo and stephen l davis nixon's advisors suggested he find a public enemy to distract the public from his own flagging approval rating the war in vietnam and the struggling economy. They leary a prominent figure in the counterculture movement and because the former professor was a proud exponent of hallucinogenic drug use. The president's ir fit right in with his war on drugs narrative timothy leary was something of a self appointed spokesperson for the benefits of drug use. Which heat enjoyed since one thousand nine hundred sixty after an experimental magic mushrooms trip. The already noted psychologist became excited about the possibilities. Mushrooms and similar drugs had on the human brain during his tenure. At harvard he conducted academic experiments on the effects of hallucinogens. Drawing the attention and admiration of other notable nineteen sixties figures famed authors. Like gin berg and jack kerouac willingly participated in leary's experiments and it was perhaps their involvement that catapulted the professor onto the national stage before long leary was touring the country speaking about his research and reportedly brushing up against the rich and famous inevitably a backlash arrived. Leary's teaching colleagues criticized his experimentation with lsd. They believed research of that. Nature should be left to medical doctors not psychologists meanwhile psychology experts who once lauded leary's earlier work now made it clear that his drug centered experiments were less praiseworthy. Despite these blows leary insisted that taking lsd was quote a sacramental ritual one that could expand human consciousness. Harvard university did not agree and fired him in nineteen sixty three but by that stage leary had a new life. He was a counterculture touchstone for the masses and a legitimizing scientific voice in the pro drug movement. He rubbed shoulders with marilyn monroe and sang with john. Lennon and yoko ono in short he was a powerful voice advocating for drug use throughout the nineteen sixties. He even appeared before a senate committee to argue in favor of legislation. That would make it legal for adults to use hallucinogenic drugs. So when richard. Nixon assumed the presidency in nineteen sixty nine leary was squarely in his sights. Ostensibly nixon wanted to eliminate drug use in the country. Leary very much did not. That made him dangerous. So it's little surprise that when leary's appeal of his nineteen sixty five drug-smuggling conviction was overturned. The government wanted a second bite at the apple but any joy nixon and his cabinet might have felt in putting leary. Away was short lived using his network of contacts. The former professor escaped prison remaining on the run until nineteen seventy three when he was detained in afghanistan and sent back to the united states. There he was jailed in the notorious folsom. Prison and briefly befriended charles manson and though his sentence was for ten years leary was paroled in nineteen. Seventy six having served just three. It's a surprising twist day given that so many drug offenders imprisoned for decades on similar offenses then again timothy leary was famous and white which might have had something to do with his early release
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"john lennon" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Way. Take you through the Friday folder. Friday Folders, a creation of the Great Jonathan Hood and Daniel and Zet, Erman. The collaborative effort. It's a collaborative at you to collaborate whose paces Nagy. He and I are like John Lennon and Paul McCartney on this show. Yeah, Once again I'm Ringo. Oh, on and you're Yoko. Just so you'd better be loco. Okay, if he's if he's Yoko than you're letting on. That's why I'll take that. Take that. Yeah, I interrupted money. I football my death. Excuse may have heart. May I would tell cell to report John Lennon has been shot. Like what? What? Taken to whatever he goes, taken to whatever hospital dead on arrival. You ever heard that? I mean, yeah, it just It was no different gear for him. Not just not not somber, Just direct, just devastating news. No, it's dead on arrival. And that's how you got your news back then, kids, you just get it through money, like put Rick in the face. First out of 11th and 10. John Lennon dead on arrival, said We've got that in the vault somewhere, I think is a cab. You know that We played it on this show like to okay, because you just asked Hoody. Do you have you heard it? And then you said we haven't somewhere in the vault. And you're better than that. The audience changes every five minutes, let alone everything but your partner, does it your But you asked everyone, Listen, that you asked Hood your best, Danny, You're better get defensive. This is why we have the Friday folder. Correct. We have this because we could never get the stuff because of Silly arguments like you just heard right there. Taking up valuable time on the show sells the things that we missed. That's why we have the Friday folder because it's farm. It's time for the Friday folder on the Captain Jay Hood show. Yes, we go through the files. Love this. Sorry. The Friday folder. We turn over now to Danny. Senator. What's the sum of stuff that we missed this week? All right, General Woman.