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John Lennon and me: From the Beatles in Hamburg to the Plastic Ono Band
Klaus Voormann recalls his days as a member of The Beatles inner circle, and playing bass for John Lennon s solo project after the demise of the Fab Four
John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Picture courtesy of the Lennon estate
Mon, 03 May, 2021 - 21:13
Richard Purden
Klaus Voormann first laid eyes on John Lennon in Hamburg’s red-light district while watching The Beatles the autumn of 1960. As he stood watching the band thrash out their rudimentary rock n roll to a crowd of sailors, drunks and sex workers, one impression stood out about Lennon: “He was a cocky rocker.”
How Kabir Bedi interviewed The Beatles in 1966 (and asked John Lennon if he took drugs)
Edited excerpts from the actor’s memoir ‘Stories I Must Tell’. Kabir Bedi
In 1966, while returning from a tour in Manila to London, The Beatles made a three-day layover in Delhi. Kabir Bedi, a 20-year-old-freelance reporter with All India Radio at the time, managed to get an exclusive interview with the Fab Four. In his memoir Stories I Must Tell
(Westland Books), Bedi wrote that he spoke to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr for 30 minutes by bluffing to their manager, Brian Epstein, that the government had asked for the interview.
with Kulja Coulston and Judith Peppard
Kulja and Judith chat to ACTU President Michele O’Neil about issues for women and work before and after pandemic; barrister Rachel Doyle SC, regarding her new essay “Power & Consent”; director/writer Abbie Pobjoy about their documentary
Why Did She Have To Tell The World; plus Professor Martha Hickey, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and Director of Gynaecology Research Centre at the Royal Women’s Hospital about the Flesh After 50 Exibition.
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follow that kind of stuff? i do. check on that. i thought you ll appreciate this, i thought the moment of the season was the revolver thing. revolver, where she takes out don s wife takes out revolver, the second i saw it, i m thinking this is the album that split the 60s down the middle. and split the beatles career. the moment when the turn came. you could argue about possibly being the best of all the beatles albums, but a huge moment in the 60s that moment when lsd suddenly creeps in, psychedelic creeps in. start the album with tax man and these cute songs but end it with tomorrow never knows and that s the song she tells don to play. it s, of course, the segway to their next album sergeant pepper and that s when the 60s are were split in half and don looks at it, takes it off. he s a sinatra guy. right. he s a product of world war