Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Bloody Giraffes




OK, here's a bit of a puzzler. I had this John Lennon interview identified as an RKO Radio broadcast from September 25th, 1974.

It circulates in two versions: here is the unedited recording, complete with questions, from a rebroadcast in 2005 (on Black Cat's CD Oh Yeh?). There is also a much shorter and lower-quality version, with questions removed and music included, presumably from the original airing.

Internal clues date the interview to the first few days of August 1974. So far so good, right?

Well, there is another interview out there claiming to be a September 25, 1974 RKO broadcast. It does indeed contain a couple of snippets from the above (which I have removed). But the bulk of it seems to be from a completely different date (or dates), possibly 1975, based on the reference to Allan Williams' book. Several pieces of it will be familiar to viewers of the Beatles Anthology documentary.

Can anyone clear up just what was recorded and/or broadcast when and where? We may have to wait for Lennonology to solve this mystery.

9 comments:

  1. reload the 1962 -1970 stuff

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    1. Not if you ask that way. Or should I say demand.

      Look in the comments section from time to time, I plan on uploading all that stuff when I get a chance. DinsdaleP has already said he has no plans to go back and reupload all the stuff the Mediafire deleted.

      But if you can't even say please, it definitely doesn't inspire me to be any quicker about it.

      In the meantime, why not enjoy 1974?!! These John interviews are fantastic!

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  2. The one you dated 1975 is from an RKO History of the Beatles documentary broadcast in 1977.

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  3. Nice to see you're feeling better, John.

    It seems to me like the first one is the actual RKO interview (the one broadcast in Sep '74). Haven't a clue what the second is.

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    1. So, just to get my head around it: the RKO interview is a September broadcast of an interview that was conducted in early August (hence John's statement that he has just finished the first faze of backing tracks for what would be "Walls And Bridges".).

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  4. So what is this picture?

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    1. John Lennon's drawing of giraffes that someone made into a button, I believe.

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    2. Toxic Mento.

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  5. The "1975 RKO interview" is very interesting, particularly the bit about Pete Best. I was expecting all the September 74 interviews to be much more repetitious than they actually are, but they're all well worth a listen.

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