Imagine: John Lennon

<i>because we were already successful.</i> 391 00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:35,344 And I knew that I could do in the studio just what I wanted. 392 00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:38,096 And I knew that they wanted to experiment a bit more. 393 00:35:38,180 --> 00:35:42,017 So we just let our hair down and went for broke. 394 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,604 <i>In fact, when I say Pepper, I mean I'm starting off with Strawberry Fields...</i> 395 00:35:45,687 --> 00:35:48,649 <i>which was the beginning ofPepper, although it wasn't on the album.</i> 396 00:35:48,690 --> 00:35:50,984 <i>That was one of the great songs he did.</i> 397 00:37:08,604 --> 00:37:12,316 <i>I really wasn't aware of their taking drugs much before that.</i> 398 00:37:13,108 --> 00:37:15,777 <i>I was aware of them smoking pot.</i> 399 00:37:16,153 --> 00:37:18,447 <i>And even during the Sergeant Pepper bit...</i> 400 00:37:18,530 --> 00:37:21,658 <i>I wasn't too sure about what they were doing.</i> 401 00:37:21,742 --> 00:37:24,119 I didn't really want to know, 'cause I didn't approve of it. 402 00:37:24,203 --> 00:37:28,874 And they were rather like school kids. They used to keep it away from me. 403 00:37:28,916 --> 00:37:31,793 If they wanted to go and have a drag of a smoke... 404 00:37:31,877 --> 00:37:33,921 they wouldn't do it in the studio. 405 00:37:34,004 --> 00:37:37,382 They would nip into the canteen and lock the door... 406 00:37:37,466 --> 00:37:39,801 like naughty boys in the lavatory. 407 00:37:39,885 --> 00:37:42,721 They would go away and hide, away from the schoolmaster. 408 00:37:48,185 --> 00:37:51,396 <i>Surrealism had a great effect on me 'cause then I realized that...</i> 409 00:37:51,438 --> 00:37:54,775 <i>my imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.</i> 410 00:37:54,858 --> 00:37:57,903 <i>Psychedelic vision is reality to me.</i> 411 00:39:13,562 --> 00:39:17,566 Some newspaperman came up and he said, "Have you had LSD?" 412 00:39:17,649 --> 00:39:21,862 So I thought, "I'll either be cagey here or be honest." 413 00:39:22,070 --> 00:39:23,405 So I said, "Yes." 414 00:39:23,489 --> 00:39:26,158 And it was his responsibility, reporting it. 415 00:39:26,241 --> 00:39:28,577 So they had him on TV saying, "Why did you say this?" 416 00:39:28,952 --> 00:39:30,204 Very much like that statement... 417 00:39:30,287 --> 00:39:33,165 They kept asking him, "Did you take it?" So he says, "Yeah." 418 00:39:33,207 --> 00:39:35,959 But on TV, he says, "You don't print this bit of film. 419 00:39:36,043 --> 00:39:38,170 "I don't want to tell anybody about that. It's private"... 420 00:39:38,253 --> 00:39:40,297 Almost like the situation with the Christ statement. 421 00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:43,550 But see, they just asked me a question. I gave them an answer. 422 00:39:43,634 --> 00:39:45,427 And then it was blown up. 423 00:39:45,594 --> 00:39:50,224 I mean, you know, I just spoke the truth and it's sometimes painful. 424 00:39:51,308 --> 00:39:54,019 This is the truth. My son came home with a drawing... 425 00:39:54,102 --> 00:39:57,773 and showed me this strange-Iooking woman flying around. 426 00:39:57,898 --> 00:40:00,734 I said, "What is it?" He said, "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds." 427 00:40:00,818 --> 00:40:03,779 I thought, "That's beautiful." I immediately wrote a song about it. 428 00:40:03,862 --> 00:40:06,490 The song had gone out, the whole album had been published... 429 00:40:06,573 --> 00:40:10,702 when somebody noticed that the letters spelled out "LSD." 430 00:40:10,786 --> 00:40:12,204 And I had no idea about it. 431 00:40:12,287 --> 00:40:14,081 And, of course, after that I was checking... 432 00:40:14,164 --> 00:40:16,458 all the songs to see what the letters spelled out. 433 00:40:16,542 --> 00:40:18,710 They didn't spell out anything. None of the others. 434 00:40:18,752 --> 00:40:20,838 It wasn't about that at all, you know. 435 00:41:10,220 --> 00:41:13,348 <i>The terrible news came that Brian had died.</i> 436 00:41:13,432 --> 00:41:15,893 <i>Apparently, he'd taken an overdose.</i> 437 00:41:15,976 --> 00:41:19,229 <i>We were so shocked because Brian was such a kingpin...</i> 438 00:41:19,313 --> 00:41:21,982 <i>of what was going on in our lives. He was the father figure.</i> 439 00:41:22,065 --> 00:41:24,318 <i>And, all of a sudden, that had finished.</i> 440 00:41:24,735 --> 00:41:27,571 <i>That really sent things into chaos.</i> 441 00:41:28,363 --> 00:41:29,698 Tickets, please. Thanks very much. 442 00:41:31,158 --> 00:41:35,329 <i>Following a lecture that everybody had been to, to see the Maharishi...</i> 443 00:41:35,746 --> 00:41:38,999 <i>they were invited to go to Bangor for a weekend...</i> 444 00:41:39,082 --> 00:41:43,086 <i>to do meditation and to feel the experience of meditation.</i> 445 00:41:43,170 -->