There weren't any photos that went along with this story, so I took the liberty of finding some John photos from the fall of 1971 just to add to it.
John Lennon Story
By Linda Woods
From 5 Bites of the
Apple
Issue #4 (November/December 1971)
I must tell you a very funny story on what happened October
17th. Marie, Anna, Emma,
Barbara, Linda and I were patiently waiting for John and Yoko to come out of
the hotel. After about a half hour of
waiting, John and Yoko did come and it was MY turn to talk to John. I must say, John was in a fantastic mood
that day! I went up to him (it had been
10 weeks since I last saw him!) and said, “Hi John, hi Yoko, how are you?” John said to me, “Hi there….” I said to Yoko, “Yoko are you going to watch
Ed Sullivan tonight?” Yoko completely
ignored me! John said to me, “Oh is that
roobish about us going to be on again?”
I laughed nervously and said, “John, it isn’t roobish…” imitating
him. He looked at me and laughed
hysterically.
Meanwhile Marie, Ann and Emma were filming so
John made those “famous” dance steps from “A Hard Day’s Night.” (I couldn’t
stop laughing myself). We all walked
John to the limo, and by this time a crowd was gathering and I was getting a
bit uptight because I had so much to say to John. But I didn’t give up. By this time I was on John’s side of the
window along with Emma so I decided to talk to him now since so many people
were pushing me. I said to John, “John,
I must tell you about channel 13 show…well I was lying there on my bed, minding
my own business when all of a sudden Yoko started that screaming and I fell off
the bed!” He cracked up again. I then at this point had my head all the way
into the car window. No, not purposely,
but with all these other people were pushing me, John saw that I was getting a
bit annoyed but still kept my cool. I
then told John that I was happy for him that the Syracuse event went over well and
that I was sorry to have missed it. With
this, Emma whispered to me jokingly, “Yeah, I bet he missed you.” With that, I said to John, “Did you miss
me??” (Mimicking him in a “funny John voice.” )
He looked at Yoko, she giggled, and John turned to me and said (in the
same voice) “Yes, we both missed ya.”
(His nose was touching mine when he said that!)
Then, these two Spanish guys pushed their way
over to the car and singled to John that they wanted an autograph, so one of
them pulled out a dollar bill. With this, John, still looked at me, put the
dollar bill in his pocket!
(jokingly). I said to John, “John,
don’t do that…..give it to me!” He
laughed again. I said to him, “John, I’d
like to introduce you to two friends of mine.”
At this point, John saw that I was putting him on a bit so lifting his
eyebrow he said, “Do you know them?” I
said, “No!” Laughing, he gave me a look,
so of to say, “Are you all right them.”
This one sweet old lady came over and said to John, “John Lennon how are
you love?” To everyone’s surprise, John yelled out to
the lady, Ka Pasa Ka Pasa!” Everyone
roared! The car was being delayed
because of a parade on fifth avenue.
Finally the car was slowly pulling away and I said to John, “See ya
John.” He said, “See ya luv.” I waved, smiling because I know him, yet I am
sorry to see him go.
HILARIOUS story!
ReplyDeleteGood on her, she him Lennon laugh! In fact, she made ME laugh!!!
Thanks for posting this story, Madam Thespian!!!!
ohhh....i miss him :(
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remember linda woods from nyc many years ago - is she still alive?
ReplyDeletethe top pic of John is beautiful
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