Genius Is Pain: John Lennon Interview, National Lampoon MP3

On Saturday at 2pm New York time, BBC4 will broadcast the unreleased audio of Jann Wenner's 1970 interview with John Lennon. You can hear the interview in realaudio from this page when it airs, or if you can't wait, you can just download this MP3 of the National Lampoon's parody based on the interview, in which Lennon bitched about Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and declared that "Genius Is Pain." Several times, in several different ways. BBC article. Thanks Fabio and Douglas!

Comments

[protogenes]

ah, they used to play that little gem on CHOM FM in Montreal in 1974.

[L'Angelo Mysterioso]

This National Lampoon track is not a parody of a 1979 interview; it was made in the early 1970's as a parody of the song "God" off the Plastic Ono Band album (1970). That's where John declared "I don't believe in Beatles" and "The dream is over" (spoken by the faux-Yoko in the parody).

[Jim]

The song is funny enough, but what still makes me howl is the fact that most of the lyrics of the song were taken from the interview that John & Yoko did in ROLLING STONE when the eponoymous Plastic Ono Band was released

[raymond jones]

Attention all Beatle lovers and rock historians:

For an outrageous scandal check out
erichowellmusic.com - then click 'variety show-McCartney
Reveals...' and get ready for a bucket of ice water in the face. It's safe for the whole family, but...shocking.

This one's worth investigating (although you may
want to listen somewhere you feel comfortable crying
out loud).

Or, as McCartney himself said, "you only give me your
funny paper".

Peace & Loov.

Raymond Jones