Does anybody know/read something about John meeting other celebs? There are pics with John and for example Matt Dillon or Peter Lawford....does anyone know more about it?
Michael Caine and John Lennon actually met in Cannes somewhere in the mid 60s. I read Michael Caines Biography - which is very funny, by the way - and this is what he tells:
“…The Beatles were there, too and we all wound up one afternoon at the reception given by the British consul in the ballroom at the Carlton. All the stars had to line up and shake hands with the people that the Consul had invited. I was positioned next to John Lennon. It very quickly became obvious to us that the guests were mainly old British expats who knew the consul or somebody and had just come for the afternoon out. A lot of them knew nothing about films, the Festival and even less about England, where they had not lived for years, so John and I changed our names to see if anybody would react. He introduced himself as Joe Lemon and I used my real name of Maurice Micklewhite. As each group approached us we would introduce ourselves (none of them having the faintest idea who we were) and when they asked us what we did for a living, John would point at me and say, ‘I’m his assistant,’ and I in turn would point at John and say, ‘I’m in charge of him.’ That evening, I met up with John again at one of the big parties that were thrown every night of the Festival. This one took place in a great mansion overlooking the sea. Of all the Beatles, John seemed to me to be the most natural loner. An early example of this was his book In His Own Write. Even then, in the mid-sixties, it struck me as his first attempt at going alone. At that time he was very tough and abrasive – such a contrast to his later spirituality. At one point in the party I wanted to go to the lavatory and was trying each door handle in turn, only to find them all occupied. I was getting desperate, when John came rushing up, also dying to go. I warned him that all the loos were engaged. ‘Let’s find one upstairs,’ he said, and we both went charging around the bedroom of the hostess trying to locate the right door. We opened every cupboard on the landing before I finally found the bathroom door behind the hostess’ bed. I rushed in, relieved myself and came quickly out to let John have his turn, only to find him peeing out of the bedroom window. ‘I couldn’t wait,’ he explained, busy directing his stream through a narrow opening. ‘You’ve done some on the curtains,’ I hissed, looking round the door to see if anyone was coming upstairs. John finally finished and as we left the bedroom I said to him, ‘You’ve ruined her bloody curtains.’ ‘They’re rich,’ he replied in his slow drawl. ‘f*** ‘em.’….”
May Pang said that John was just as starstruck as most people, and got excited at events where there were other celebs. She said that's why (she thinks) he never minded signing autographs because he was a fan as well as a star.
I like the story of how John always was infatuated with Brigitte Bardot, and a dinner for the two was arranged, but he dropped some pretty potend Acid beforehand and couldn't speak the whole time.
I like the story of how John always was infatuated with Brigitte Bardot, and a dinner for the two was arranged, but he dropped some pretty potend Acid beforehand and couldn't speak the whole time.
This is how Donavan remebers John. "there's a good guru" - I like that
Donovan: "Here's a nice story that comes to mind concerning my time with the Beatles. It was 1968 in India, we were all gathered together in the Maharishi's bungalow, four Beatles, one Beach Boy, Mia Farrow and me. Maharishi was on the floor sitting cross-legged, but the rest of us were all still standing around as we'd just arrived. Anyway there was a kind of embarrassed hush in the room and John Lennon (always the funny one) decided to break the silence so he walked up to the Maharishi, patted him on the head and quietly said, 'There's a good guru.' John certainly had a wicked tongue all right, but he was honest to a fault. Therefore, many people often considered him to be very hard and forward. Actually, that's how he protected his sensitivities, by saying exactly what he felt. As far as I'm concerned, he ranks up there with Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Gandhi as a figure for peace in the world."
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I remember seeing that picture of John & Yoko with Muhammad Ali a long time ago & the only smart thing Jimmy Carter ever did was inviting them to his inaugural.
I want you, I want you so bad babe. I want you, I want you so bad. It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.
It's impossible for me to talk about popular music without mentioning probably my greatest mentor, John Lennon. I guess he defined for me, at any rate, how one could twist and turn the fabric of pop and imbue it with elements from other artforms, often producing something extremely beautiful, very powerful and imbued with strangeness. Also, uninvited, John would wax on endlessly about any topic under the sun and was over-endowed with opinions. I immediately felt empathy with that. Whenever the two of us got together it started to resemble Beavis and Butthead on "Crossfire."
The seductive thing about John was his sense of humor. Surrealistically enough, we were first introduced in about 1974 by Elizabeth Taylor. Miss Taylor had been trying to get me to make a movie with her. It involved going to Russia and wearing something red, gold and diaphanous. Not terribly encouraging, really. I can't remember what it was called -- it wasn't On the Waterfront, anyway, I know that.
We were in LA, and one night she had a party to which both John and I had been invited. I think we were polite with each other, in that kind of older-younger way. Although there were only a few years between us, in rock and roll that's a generation, you know? Oh boy, is it ever.
So John was sort of [in Liverpool accent] "Oh, here comes another new one." And I was sort of, "It's John Lennon! I don't know what to say. Don't mention the Beatles, you'll look really stupid."
And he said, "Hello, Dave." And I said, "I've got everything you've made -- except the Beatles."
A couple of nights later we found ourselves backstage at the Grammys where I had to present "the thing" to Aretha Franklin. Before the show I'd been telling John that I didn't think America really got what I did, that I was misunderstood. Remember that I was in my 20s and out of my head.
So the big moment came and I ripped open the envelope and announced, "The winner is Aretha Franklin." Aretha steps forward, and with not so much as a glance in my direction, snatches the trophy out of my hands and says, "Thank you everybody. I'm so happy I could even kiss David Bowie." Which she didn't! And she promptly spun around swanned off stage right. So I slunk off stage left.
And John bounds over and gives me a theatrical kiss and a hug and says "See, Dave. America loves ya."
We pretty much got on like a house on fire after that.
He once famously described glam rock as just rock and roll with lipstick on. He was wrong of course, but it was very funny.
Towards the end of the 70s, a group of us went off to Hong Kong on a holiday and John was in, sort of, house-husband mode and wanted to show Sean the world. And during one of our expeditions on the back streets a kid comes running up to him and says, "Are you John Lennon?" And he said, "No but I wish I had his money." Which I promptly stole for myself.
[imitating a fan] "Are you David Bowie?"
No, but I wish I had his money.
It's brilliant. It was such a wonderful thing to say. The kid said, "Oh, sorry. Of course you aren't," and ran off. I thought, "This is the most effective device I've heard."
I was back in New York a couple of months later in Soho, downtown, and a voice pipes up in my ear, "Are you David Bowie?" And I said, "No, but I wish I had his money."
"You lying bastard. You wish you had my money." It was John Lennon.
from David Bowie's speech to Berklee College of Music's Class of 1999, delivered at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, 8 May 1999
Another brief moment with Bowie (tho Paul was there too) ...
"1973
McCartney is busted for growing marijuana on his farm in Scotland. He is fined the equivalent of $240.
McCartney visits John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, who are living together in L.A. while Lennon produces Nilsson’s album, “girl private Cats.” A bleary-eyed Nilsson offers McCartney some PCP. Paul asks, “Is it fun?” ”No,” Nilsson replied. So McCartney passes on the PCP.
1974
According to a book written by May Pang called Loving John: The Untold Story about the time she spent as John Lennon’s girlfriend, John Lennon and Paul McCartney drop acid together one day in New York City in 1974 and decide to go visit David Bowie.
Bowie has just received the final mix of his latest album, Young Americans which includes two songs that John Lennon worked on. One was a reworking of The Beatles song, “Across the Universe,” and the other was to become Bowie’s first number one hit, “Fame,” co-written with Lennon. Bowie proudly plays the new album for his two Beatles heroes and they’re impressed. And so he plays it again. And again. And again. Eventually, McCartney excuses himself and bolts out the door, Lennon following quickly behind. Bowie’s drug of choice in the mid-1970s might explain his obsessiveness that day: mountains of cocaine.
An interesting side note: In The Beatles version of “Across The Universe”, the line “nothing’s gonna change my world” comes across as a sort of cosmic meditation on the divine perfection of the eternal now. In Bowie’s version, the same line becomes an expression of terrified desperation. This might be interpreted as the difference between psychedelics and coke, as well as the difference between the 60s and the 70s."
An interesting side note: In The Beatles version of “Across The Universe”, the line “nothing’s gonna change my world” comes across as a sort of cosmic meditation on the divine perfection of the eternal now. In Bowie’s version, the same line becomes an expression of terrified desperation. This might be interpreted as the difference between psychedelics and coke, as well as the difference between the 60s and the 70s."
Anybody got any idea when this picture of John lennon and David Bowie was taken ? I think it's quite late maybe when Bowie was doing Elephant Man on Broadway 1980 ?
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