Pop Think-In: John Lennon
Melody Maker
January 15, 1966
John Lennon knows all about the Melody Makers' "Pop Think-In" when he was approached to sit in for the hot seat. "Yeah, it'll be a laugh," he said, sitting himself down in his chair and waiting for the first question. "But I hope I don't get rotten questions, like I get rotten records in Blind Date."
Vietnam: PF Sloan, I don't like what's happening there.
Money, nice, great
Playboy: The magazine or the man? The magazine? It's nice.
Little Annie Fanny (Playboy cartoon): I don't read the cartoon. I hardly read the book. I have seen it, though. Imagine what the bloke who draws it thinks about.
Guitars: Guitars are great ---part of life
Airplanes: I don't like them. At first, they were a nice adventure. I like flying less the more we do it. We can get to most places well enough by road. We've flown so much; something could happen the more we do
Eppy: He's great. You know, when people talk about him, they say he's harsh and hard, and I expect he can be a bit of a bastard at times. He's a businessman, so he has to be. He's never a businessman with us, though we only talk business about twice a year. He sometimes has a go at us, then we have a go back, and it's forgotten.
Milk: It's great. It goes on cornflakes, on your porridge, or your tea. It does everything. I always drink a pint before I go out on the booze, or I drink it when I come back. It keeps you going, too. Two Aspros and a glass of milk can keep you going for days.
Tours: Great if they're great tours. There was only one I didn't enjoy, and I can't remember which one that was now.
Negroes: I always think of music when I hear someone say 'Negro.' I suppose I should think about anti apartheid and all that. I don't agree with apartheid, but Negroes means music to me.
Babies: I'm not keen on any except my own. I'm typical of most men in that respect, I suppose. I think he does marvelous things, which no other baby ever does. For instance, if he pounds on the piano, I think, 'Look at that, it's marvelous!' When any kid would do the same in time if there was a piano in the house
Liverpool: It's still home, even though my aunt has moved away, and I have to stay with Paul if I go there. If I'm in London, home is Weybridge, but if I say I'm going home, I mean Liverpool. It'd be the same if I was from Paris and moved to Marcielles, Paris would always be home.
Punch-ups: They aren't there anymore with me; it all happened when I was 18 and 19.
Pubs: I've never gone much on pubs. There have been very few pubs I've had much to do with, and they were in Liverpool, like the Grapes near the Cavern, which was the one we used to use.
Sketching: I don't sketch. I occasionally draw things, but I don't sketch.
Whiskey: I go on it and off it. At the moment, I'm off it. I've been drinking solidly for three years.
Journalists: On the whole, they are all right; there's a horrible, nasty element in a few, just as in any job. Usually, though, the bastards are famous for being bastards. It's the ones that seem nice and prove to be bastards later that I can't stand. They're all part of the machine, after all; if there were no journalists, there'd be no us.
Snow: I liked it in Austria and Switzerland. I liked Austria when I was there.
Christmas cards: I never think about them. If I do, it's usually too late.
Rolls, Royces: Great, but even they are not perfect.
Short hair: Okay, if you're a short head. Some people suit their hair long, and some suit short hair.
America: Some of it's great, and some of it is awful-- good and bad
TV pop shows: They could be better or worse, I'd sooner have a bad pop show on TV than none at all.
Rhodesia: I don't know what they're up to. I don't like that Smith bloke. I don't really know enough about it.
Boots: They keep me warm. I don't always wear them, though.
Goya: Some of it's all right, doesn't he paint ballet pictures? No. Oh, oh, well, **** it then.
Combs: I only like the kind my aunt gets me from Woolworths in Liverpool.
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