{"id":483218,"date":"2025-10-08T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483218\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:01:13","slug":"ok-lets-put-it-out-john-lennon-originally-wanted-to-just-throw-away-walls-and-bridges-and-had-to-be-persuaded-to-release-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483218\/","title":{"rendered":"“OK, let\u2019s put it out\u201d: John Lennon originally wanted to \u201cjust throw away\u201d Walls and Bridges and had to be persuaded to release it"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would have been John Lennon<\/a>\u2019s 85<\/strong>th<\/strong> birthday tomorrow and to mark the occasion, a recently discovered interview with the ex-Beatle is to air on <\/strong>Boom Radio<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The interviewer was the ex-Capital Radio DJ Nicky Horne, who spoke to Lennon in his Dakota apartment in 1975, shortly before he took a five-year break from the music business.<\/p>\n

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And the interview contains some interesting revelations, not least that Lennon didn\u2019t think much of his most recent album, 1974\u2019s Walls and Bridges, and had to be persuaded to release it.<\/p>\n

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Lennon told Horne that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t stand to listen\u201d to the studio tapes at first, and thought to \u201cjust throw this away\u201d. He then played them to friends \u201cand they said: \u2018Hey, it\u2019s all right.\u2019 So I said: \u2018It\u2019s all right. Oh it\u2019s not bad at all. I quite like some of it myself. OK, let\u2019s put it out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Walls And Bridges is something of an underrated gem in Lennon\u2019s discography, and is probably best known for the two singles it spawned \u2013 Number 9 Dream and the effervescent Elton John collab, Whatever Gets You Thru The Night, a US Number One that inexplicably flopped in his home country.<\/p>\n

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It should be said, of course, that Lennon was never a great judge of his own work and old interviews regularly saw him disparaging huge swathes of his work with the Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the interview, Lennon also talked about his battles to stay in the US with the Nixon administration. He told Horne that he knew that his phone was being tapped: \u201cI know the difference between the phone being normal when I pick it up and when every time I pick it up, there\u2019s a lot of noises.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201c(The administration was) coming for me one way or the other; I mean, they were harassing me. And I\u2019d open the door and there\u2019d be guys standing on the other side of the street. I\u2019d get in a car and they\u2019d be following me in a car and not hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lennon also said that he wasn\u2019t the only rock star Nixon was suspicious of. \u201cMick (Jagger) had to vanish up his own manhole to get Keith (Richards) and the rest of them in to tour even. I mean, he did a lot of behind-the-scenes work just to get \u2018em to be allowed in. So all of us have problems. It\u2019s just that I wanted to stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can hear more excerpts from the interview and Horne\u2019s memories of the encounter tomorrow evening (October 9) on Boom Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would have been John Lennon\u2019s 85th birthday tomorrow and to mark the occasion, a recently discovered interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-483218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115339151701090320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}