John Lennon • Interview (Poetry / Art / Comedy / Beatles’ Early Career) • 1964 [RITY Archive] 

That's the John Lennon I choose to remember

This is the most goodlooking John interview and his post BEATLES look on Get back film, a clean look,soft shy spoken John in his peak Beatles time ,

This clip of John was him at his best. He was very polite, and quite charmingly self deprecating He clearly got on well with the interviewer and let down his guard.

he's so gorgeous

I think this is the original John ... Very handsome

I can't think of a musician with the same charisma, personality, wit and musical talent as John. He had so much influence on so many of us. How could we lose him?

Early John is very funny, especially the way he looks at the camera letting us know we’re in on the joke 😊

The real John Lennon's personality. The John that Cynthia talks about. Love this John, before all the pressure & drugs. RIP John❤

I'm going to be honest here. I'm not bloody listening to a word he's saying as I'm just admiring how bloody gorgeous he looks here ❤❤❤❤ Rest in peace John xxxx

Such BEAUTIFUL eyes.

Fun to see John so RELAXED

John young and good looking before Beatlemania took its toll on his soul , his look in early Beatles era was perfect

I love how calm and straight forward he is in this interview it’s nice.

Back then, the people interviewing Pop/Rock Stars were soo clueless. Some people have thought that John had the intellect of a genius. I just think he was Superman. I grew up in the 60s and he helped change world culture.

He's my favorite. ❤️🙂😁😊😃

He was so gorgeous

At his most gorgeous.

You can see his mind 🧠 is working on a few levels, as he waits for, listens, to questions 🗣

Just for me! i cant believe this John Lennon and the one in the 70s. with Yoko Ono his long hair are the same! this dude had such a big Change in his later years. i really adore the young John Lennon! especially on stage with the Beatles! The Energy they provide is unmatched!

I don't understand anything but I like it

He is thoroughly a Lovely Lad. One of our Best humans 🛎👋

The real John, he smiles with his heart, the interviewer got the authentic one.

John Lennon was a genious still is.I'll see you in heaven John. Beatles forever ♥️👏👏💛

He was way too young to even think of how he’d like to be remembered! The Beatles did stuff, like we all did as youngsters, usually without thinking much.

John was really open and charming in this interview. He gave thoughtful replies. I think it might have been Kenneth Allsop who interviewed him who did a fine job.

he had such a soothing voice.

Handsome

beautiful boy

He's a one-of-a-kind, even in the early days. Is there any other 'pop' singer, alive or dead, who was articulate and honest as this at 24?

I absolutely love John Lennon favorite singer his music helps calm my anexity good man he is miss him wish he were here still with us

Rodger the Artful Dodger! Who’s Roger? Anyway, this is a special interview of Lennon in his prime! He wasn’t good at painting but he was good at drawing caricatures and great at writing songs. I get a melancholy feeling from watching him here because I think of what the world lost later. He didn’t deserve to go out like that so brutally and senselessly. RIP Lennon 💐 He was very clever.

amazing! Is there more we can see? This is a side of John we rarely got to see. He's so sweet and charming.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy... Darling, darling, darling, darling John.❤

Very authentic interview.

What a brilliant dude.

John was totally charming and self deprecating. He got a good interviewer who bowled down some nice thought provoking questions which got a mixture of humour and serious reflection from John. The questions were not really as John as a Beatle.

Hard to believe this was almost 60 years ago. I was 13 at the time of this interview.

Thank u for this video....john is so so handsome 😍 💜

The articulate and ridiculously talented Mr John Lennon (Ex-MBE holder...) thanks for uploading.

In a few years he would seem like a completely different person

John he is a really good person And My favourite person

At the age of 24 had the wisdom of someone 94 an old soul

Look how handsome he was before the drugs and the eating disorder 😢

John Lennon❤❤❤❤

I thought I've seen everything from them being long time Beatles fan it's nice to see this one from John certainly the best version of him good looking, charming and witty.Sure he had some flaws but no one's perfect so let's us enjoy whatever is left with his memory and tnx 2 yt were seeing never before seen footages like this again!

He looks like a completely different person from the John Lennon just two years later. I know people who had eating disorders and drug problems and they still looked the same. I wonder if Paul wasn’t the only one who changed.

It amazing how new interviews of The Beatles are discovered or released year after year. Makes you wonder how many more there are out there that may get released long after Paul and Ringo are no longer with us.

Sexy sexy and sexy. Love his voice and face. Miss him like crazy. One time machine required please!

The most beautiful brown eyes I've ever seen 🤎

1966 changed John and it wasnt just the drugs

Its strange but the John Lennon in 69 looks like a totally different person....

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be ❤

Thanks again for sharing! Wonderful interviews with some of my favorite entertainers! Lennon, so interesting!

"Preoccupied with abnormalities?" Wise interviewer.

He’s adorable 🥰

I fell in love with this john

He would have been 83 years old today...(October 9, 2023)...

His hair is so fluffy

Yes He was handsome all throughout his Life. No denying he looked better b4 the late 60's.

the real john

The thirst for John is real in the comments. Yes, he looks extra great here for some reason. 😄

❤❤❤que saudade de qdo john lennon tão lindooo ❤❤❤

Love you John baby 💗🧡🤍🌼💛☮️💙💓

a man we failed to protect😢

That period of the Beatles both gives me nice, comforting memories of my young childhood, and excites me with the uplifting, daring and revolutionary verve of the ‘60s.

June 14, 1964...Melbourne Australia...Southern Cross Hotel.

A cool fella precocious and not in hell..he's a good spirit

untouchable. take note, kids. if ya wanna master art and life, balance all things. write and have rebellious fun. play music and experiment.

"I was doing it long before I became a guitar", such a special mind, I love this era Lennon, before he got deeply serious, impatient with the world and Yoko'd

Lennon grew up in a time where people read alot and liked to read explaining why he was pretty eloquent plus he was a pretty intelligent guy anyway.

The beautiful boy 👦 💙 😍 ♥ ❤ 💖

"Lennon's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24. Harry writes that In His Own Write (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around the Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories, poetry, plays and drawings. One story, "Good Dog Nigel", tells the tale of "a happy dog, urinating on a lamp post, barking, wagging his tail - until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock". The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories "remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on, words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy". Book Week reported, "This is nonsense writing, but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me". Source: Wikipedia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "In His Own Write is a 1964 nonsense book by English musician John Lennon. His first book, it consists of poems and short stories ranging from eight lines to three pages, as well as illustrations. After Lennon showed journalist Michael Braun some of his writings and drawings, Braun in turn showed them to Tom Maschler of publisher Jonathan Cape, who signed Lennon in January 1964. He wrote most of the content expressly for the book, though some stories and poems had been published years earlier in the Liverpool music publication Mersey Beat. Lennon's writing style is informed by his interest in English writer Lewis Carroll, while humorists Spike Milligan and "Professor" Stanley Unwin inspired his sense of humour. His illustrations imitate the style of cartoonist James Thurber. Many of the book's pieces consist of private meanings and in-jokes, while also referencing Lennon's interest in physical abnormalities and expressing his anti-authority sentiments. The book was both a critical and commercial success, selling around 300,000 copies in Britain. Reviewers praised it for its imaginative use of wordplay and favourably compared it to the later works of James Joyce, though Lennon was unfamiliar with him. Later commentators have discussed the book's prose in relation to Lennon's songwriting, both in how it differed from his contemporary writing and in how it anticipates his later work, heard in songs like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Am the Walrus". Released amidst Beatlemania, its publication reinforced perceptions of Lennon as "the smart one" of the Beatles, and helped to further legitimise the place of pop musicians in society. Since its release, the book has been translated into several languages. In 1965, Lennon released another book of nonsense literature, A Spaniard in the Works. He abandoned plans for a third collection and did not publish any other books in his lifetime. Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy adapted his two books into a one-act play, The Lennon Play: In His Own Write, produced by the National Theatre Company and first performed in June 1968 to mixed reviews." Source: Wikipedia.

John Lennon very funy😊

The pressure John and the others were under was just insane. Glad none O.D. with all that portable Rome band.

My God, he is gorgeous handsome man, what a smile!! I still love you.

Lennon❤

Reading without glasses

As a straight guy I got to admit John Lennon was a attractive guy when he was younger in his early 20’s

I literally live in this interview

Great interview, but looks more like 1965

John Lennon foi tão sexy e muito bonito ❤

In 16 years he would be gone.

Hottie hot hot! Smart as a whip, funny as hell, as cute as he can be . He is too much man!

❤❤❤

John Winston Lennon (Liverpool, 9 de octubre de 1940-Nueva York, 8 de diciembre de 1980). 83 años 40 años 43 años

Mr Talent

People often forget just how downright funny all four of them were. Quite different from all rock bands before or since. Take away the music and they’re all very capable of filing the gap between the goons and python.

4:46 god damn 😍🥴

He was beautiful ❤

WHERES YA GLASSES JOHN

The interviewer defintitely must have gained Lennon's trust when you see him reacting the way he does. Or is he just being pleasing and political?

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Yoko really messed him up! I don't care that he says he was suicidal before her i just think that's him being John! He got with her so he could do heroin openly and not hide it amd someone he could anything with and not care what she thought

pretty john❤

Just look at John in 1964 and then see him in 1967 to see how visually his face changed, unfortunately for the worse, a direct result of the rampant use of drugs, a shame, but a fact.

He was so good looking ❤

John is so nice when forced to respond to so many daft qustions.

Who's the interviewer? I recognise the voice.

This version of John Lennon is still alive as Colin Unwin.

THIS FUCKING BIG ASS WATERMARK AAAAAA