He Met the Walrus
In 1969, a young teenager named Jerry Levitan sneaked into John Lennon’s hotel room, with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. He interviewed Lennon for about five minutes, and now that recording has been set to a most Beatle-esque animation. It’s way cool, and what’s probably most wonderful of all are Lennon’s insightful comments about the meaning of music, peace and nonviolence, why violent revolutions always fail, the truth about human nature, and why he was having a hard time gaining entry into the USA.
It really brings home to me what a horrible loss we all suffered on 12/8/80.
How cool it would have been to be Jerry Levitan for those few minutes.
March 17, 2009 at 11:36 am
this is wonderful – the imagery, the profound whatever.
March 17, 2009 at 8:30 pm
This is great. On YouTube, there’s also an interview with the now grown Jerry Levitan about how the interview happened. Fascinating stuff.
March 18, 2009 at 1:01 pm