We’re coming up on the 27th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination (December 8th, 1980)…
(aside: Isn’t it a bit weird to have an anniversary for an assassination? I mean, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, not the day he was murdered. Same with Lincoln for Presidents Day. Emo.)

To commemorate this dark day in music history, our buddies at The Orchard are releasing the audio from John Lennon’s last official interview, which took place 12 hours before crazed fan Mark David Chapmanpulled a gun and murdered the former Beatle.

You can listen to the first part of the interview here: Testimony

During the conversation, Lennon and wife Yoko Ono talk with Bob Miles about what would be Lennon’s last album, Double Fantasy, their family, how Lennon met McCartney, and much more I’m sure.

If you would like to purchase the whole interview on mp3 you can do so here. Or here.

War is Over (if you want it).

As it’s John Lennon’s birthday and I’m not about to sit here and do what I’m supposed to be doing (editing articles so Dubs can be happy with life), I did a little more John Lennon research (read: googling off.)
For instance, most song lyric sites have the David Bowie lyric to “Life on Mars” wrong. “Now the workers have struck for fame / ‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again.” Workers? Lenin? C’MON.”

One of the articles I edited made a reference to Chuck Berry, so I started looking him up. And then serendipity struck.

It’s cool to see John Lennon jamming with Chuck Berry, but the best part is Chuck’s facial expression when Yoko Ono starts…er…singing?

1:12. Classic.

I am now looking up “Chuck Berry” and “pee pee,” because I vaguely remember stories about how he, in his personal life, has a sexual proclivity towards “waste play.” I’ll post what I find next…this is by far my most productive day at Synthesis, ever.

Today, October 9th, is John Lennon’s birthday. The former Beatle turned 67 years old today, and despite having not released an album of new material in over 27 years, remains a relevant rock icon today.
(I hold the unpopular position that John Lennon faked his murder in 1980 and lives on a private, uncharted island with Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Andy Kaufman and my schnauzer, Bentley. They are all very happy there and my mom says I can visit them some day.)

This morning I caught Terry Gross‘ interview with Steven Colbert on NPR. They were discussing his new book entitled I Am America (And So Can You!), which might be the most awesomely titled piece of literature since War and Peace. The reason I bring this up is because I’m reminded of one of Colbert’s bits he had during his tenure on The Daily Show with John Stewart. This was a long time ago so I’ll have to paraphrase, but it went something along the lines of this:

“And now for some news that will be depressing for bong-clutching college graduates: By the time they were 30, the Beatles had already broken up.”

(I totally stole that last picture from The Onion.)