THE JOHN LENNON INTERVIEW YOU NEVER SAW

COUNTERPUNCH - It was twenty-five years ago today that John Lennon was
murdered outside the Dakota building on Central Park West in New York
City. The following 1971 interview with Lennon done by Counterpunchers
Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn [is] a lot more interesting that the
interminable Q and A with Lennon done by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner.
Tariq and Robin allowed Lennon to talk and spurred him on when he showed
signs of flagging. Lennon recounts about how he and George Harrison
bucked their handlers and went on record against the Vietnam War,
discusses class politics in an engaging manner, defends country and
western music and the blues, suggests Dylan's best songs stem from
revolutionary Irish and Scottish ballads and dissects his three versions
of "Revolution". The interview ran in The Red Mole, a Trotskyist sheet
put out by the British arm of the Fourth International. As you'll see,
those were different days.

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