I Met the Walrus by Jerry Levitan

Author:Jerry Levitan [Levitan, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Genre.Biographies and Autobiographies, Music, Biography, Arts.Music
ISBN: 9780061713262
Google: ECEePhx9NrwC
Amazon: 0061713260
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Goodreads: 6239817
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

John smoking one of his numerous French Gitanes cigarettes. Jeff Goode/Toronto Star.

DEREK TAYLOR: What’s this, John?

JOHN: Oh, it’s just some butcher [laughs]. And he had a pinup on the wall, you know, and he was saying to the guy here, “It’s disgusting, that Two Virgins album.” I don’t know what to do about those people. We know where they’re at. And just leave them alone. Give them their dirty pictures and we can get on with changing the world.

JERRY: I read in the paper in an advertisement for “Get Back” and “Don’t Let Me Down” and you say you do “the nifty guitar bit.”

JOHN: [laughs] Ah yeah, the fab guitar bit [laughs].

JERRY: Everyone seems to think that George is the nice guitarist, and stuff like that, I’m not too keen on George, I like him and all that but you and Paul sort of like send me. I had a feeling that you’re sort of drifting away from people. You’re still like sort of a symbol, Beatles, like God, but in school if you ask them who their favorite group is they’ll say the Bee Gees and stuff like that.

JOHN: Yeah, well the Beatles, they’ve been around too long for a lot of kids, we’re old, you know, but we’ll be around for a long time anyway, you know, making good records. But you can’t get enthusiasm, the day-to-day who’s in, who’s out. We lose that all the time. Like when we left Liverpool, before we left Liverpool, we were playing in one club, and we were very in. We left that club and went to another club and we lost a lot of fans there, Beatles, you know, and we left Liverpool and they complained ’cause we left Liverpool ’cause you can never be in with some crowds. They’re always going to want the latest, whether it’s the Bee Gees or the Mop Tops. You know, they go for crap all the time. And you leave them with that. You can’t wait for them people. You can’t keep kowtowing to their tastes, and I think the Beatles will probably get less and less fans but they’ll be a damn sight more intelligent [laughing] than the mass of fans we’ve had, probably. You know, we can’t afford to wait for the fans. We couldn’t afford to stay in the Cavern in Liverpool and kowtow to two hundred people. We had to get out and make five hundred people listen and in that way we lost maybe one hundred of the two hundred and got another fifty further up the road. And you just gotta go on like that, swapping your audience. But you judge us on our music, not what the guy in class is saying.

JERRY: I’ll talk to some kids in school, most of them like the Bee Gees and stuff like that….

JOHN: The Bee Gees are okay, you know. They make some good music. But they’re a different bag from us. There’s plenty of other groups than us and the Bee Gees.

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