McCartney Times

A fascinating cache of mostly unheard interview tapes with John Lennon is up for auction this month, offering an insight into topics including his favourite Beatles songs, his love for Yoko Ono, the corrupting power of fame and his feelings of hypocrisy over initially accepting an MBE.

The 91 minutes of recordings and interviews were conducted by Canadian journalist Ken Zeilig on three occasions in 1969 and 1970, as the Beatles were beginning to fracture.

Only about five minutes of them have been aired before, in a television broadcast in the late 1980s. Zeilig died in 1990, but the tapes have only recently been discovered by his family. They are estimated to sell for between £20,000 and £30,000 (€23,000-€35,000).

People said the Beatles created a whole new way of life and thinking. Well, we didn’t, we were part of it

On the greatest Beatles songs, Lennon says on the recordings: “I’m prejudiced, I like my own, you know. [laughs] I like Revolution #9” – the freeform sonic experiment at the climax of The White Album. Asked to name more, he picks I Am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, A Day in the Life and Rain.

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