This is an I Heart podcast guaranteed human. Now here's a highlight from coast to coast AM on I Heart radio. We were talking about May and I said she was telling us about the song John Lennon wrote for her. Maybe there's more than one. I don't even know about that. But I said, well, if you're just an admin, you're not getting a song written about you. So at some point, the relationship changed. So let's get right into that. Three years down the line. It was not it was not like I was there and all of a sudden it changed. It was it was three years down one because his relationship changed with Theoko and all of a sudden I got thrown into something that I didn't want. And I wasn't looking for it. And at that time neither was John. So it was just kind of an interesting thing that that that was a thrown at us. And both of us really were resisting it. And you just kept going and you know, and you know, And you could just kept trying to put us together and we were like, why are you doing this? I don't know. Yoko was trying to put you together. Yes. This is all explained in the in the movie. So when people see it, it is it is talked about. And that's why I said when you see the movie, it's it's all in there. I do talk about that. But John did write a song for me. I had no idea he was going to do that. He called me in and he said just sit down here, sit on the floor and I sat in front of him. And he picked up the guitar and he just started to to play this little tune. And he got about a verse down. And I was like, I didn't even know what to say. I was so I was so taken aback by it. I got too nervous. So that's my wish. Don't you wish that in that moment, you could have done something like, it's okay. It's no Norwegian would just have that moment just to mess with them. I'm mess with him on other things by saying who kept making these mistakes and he looked at me and he used to say, why do you always pick up my mistakes? No, I don't know. He liked you because he probably had, was he surrounded by yes people at that point? Because the Beatles had gone and of course, what imagine is probably out. So people are still like in this awe of John Lennon, where you one of the few people that would call him out. I would say nothing, but when he would ask me, I would give him my true opinion on things. And so, you know, he appreciated that. He was very surprised that I knew that much about music and my understanding about publishing. So we used to talk about that all the time. He, you know, we would talk about what's our favorite songs. And he would just stare at me and he goes, I can't believe you like the same songs. We had, we definitely were very compatible when he came to liking the same songs. When we were recording on the rock and roll, you know, we loved the rosy and the original song and Angel Baby. And he goes, I said, that's one of my favorites. And he looked at me and he said, it's my favorite. You know, it's one of those moments. And I said, no, no, no, no. And he goes, how do you know this song? Because I'm 10 years younger than him. You know, that was our age difference. And in the end, I said, it's because I got the music ahead of you. In America, right? Yeah. You know, it's interesting. You can easily remember that when I watched that, when I watched that documentary, that Peter Jackson documentary, yeah, you really get the sense of John Lennon and how much he listened to the radio because a lot of times he's not playing Beatles songs. He's playing songs that are on the radio popular right then them there. Right. And he's like a jukebox. He can play just about everything when you, when you watch that documentary. And you're like, oh my gosh, that guy is, he's transfixed by the radio. That, that means something to him. So I'm wondering as we talk about that, I feel like I know the Beatles because of their songs. So let me preface this. Nowadays, everybody's got an Instagram. They've got a TikTok. And it's a little, it's a little disheartening to me because back when I listened to music, I grew up, you know, in the 80s and 90s. And you knew about a band when they came to town and you saw them in concert. But really what you knew about them was the album cover in the music inside. So you think you know about those bands because of the music that you hear. Oh, absolutely. It's not like I'm watching, you know, John Lennon on his TikTok, you know, making sweet rolls. You do miss, we all do miss anybody who grew up in a, you know, back then. We all do miss the, the liner notes because John took an interest in making his album covers. So nowadays, even when it got to CD, I said, how could you read this, you know, back in, you could at least hold it and read it. No, it was just different. And oh, so let me preface that. The second song that was very, that I have is number nine dream, which of course was a hit. And, and the reason is a lot of that whispering and singing background in the, the chorus, but the whispering of John's name is actually me doing it. You're on that track? Yes. Wow. How cool, man. I know you're going to want some after here in this. This is an amazing story. We've got Stephen and Malachi Gregory in Nelson, New Zealand. I understand that Malachi, who is eight, almost nine years old now, was suffering with not just one or two warts, but I mean, a significant outbreak of warts all over his body, so significant it impacted his ability to, to really function. Yeah. Yeah, he was having trouble even holding a pencil to write. I was at his book, actually, that they got me thinking about it. 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If you are a John Lennon fan, as I am, there's a lot of us are. Do you feel like the core of his personality shows up in the songs? Oh, of course. Yes. But here's the funny part. I mean, I said, I just laughed and chuckled about John Lennon fan. Yes. But he was not my favorite beetle when I was growing up. You seem like a Paul person. Were you a Paul person? No. You were a George? No. You were a Ringo? Absolutely. Well, he would have loved to have heard that. I bet he didn't hear that a lot. He did. He was the problem. Here was the funny part. I was a weird NLA. I think I was washing dishes as doing something. And I hear this voice going, hey, who was your favorite beetle? And immediately I went Ringo. And I stopped. And I went, oh my god, but did I just do? I'm saying. I mean, who would have thought that I'm going to be asked that question? Who's your favorite beetle by another beetle? So immediately, I was going to go up. You know, and I turned around and I said, we are talking about when I was 13 or 14, right? We're not talking now. Good answer. Right? So I didn't hear from him. He didn't say anything. And finally I said, we are talking when I was a kid, right? And he goes, yeah. And I thought, oh, god. I said, when you're going to ask me that question, that's a loaded question. You know, and I told him, I said, you know, the first thing I thought about, of course, was Ringo when I was 13, was my favorite beetle. So of course, that night we're going to a party and we ran into Ringo. Didn't think anything of it of that conversation. But of course, John didn't forget. Of course, no turned around and he said to Ringo, oh, by the way, did you know you were her favorite? If I wanted to tell you that I wanted to just crawl under a rock at that moment, that was it. That was the time. That's amazing. When I listen to the Beatles music, I feel something from John where I feel like he's trying to discover himself, but he also seems to know a lot about the universe. He seems both grounded and searching at the same time. How close am I? Yes, you're very close on that one. He was an avid reader. He loved to learn about everything and anything that was happening. You know, he was just into, you know, if there was something new around the corner, you know, if there's a new trend in clothing, he wanted to know about it. If there was a new religion, he'll be, he'd like to hear about it. He used to have conversations with his personal lawyer, Harold Sider, and he would say, because he would read the times every morning. He read the times every morning that paper would come, and he wanted to know what the world situation was. And he would say to him, you know, do you think we'll ever have world peace? Do you think this can ever be settled? And they would have these intense conversation. He was always curious. He was always interested in what was going on. Do you think that fueled the creative energy for music, that curiosity? I think it was a part of it, absolutely. I mean, it was his own life as well. You know, you hear about all those, when you hear his songs, and you know, it's about him. He's soul-searching always. Do you feel his presence around you? He's all the same. Sorry. Do you feel his presence around you? Still? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, and it's hard not to, when, you know, you turn on a TV set, or you turn on a, for something, you're music-wise nowadays, you know, you hear a Beatles music, or or if somebody I get into a car, and they've got a station on, and it's all, it's a Beatles song, and it's him singing, you know, it happens. There's something to you. I know you are, you live in New York currently, right? Oh, my home. We never, that was another thing. Everybody thought we moved out to LA. We never moved to LA. We always lived in New York. There's a part of New York that, um, I experienced for the first time actually last year. I went, when I went to visit my daughter's going to school in Manhattan, and we went through strawberry fields, and boy, does that feel different than the rest of central park? It's just, it's- Oh, absolutely. Yeah, because the code is there. It's, it's funny, men, people say they go to strawberry fields, and I think it's beautiful, that people go there because that's, he did, you know, he did walk there. But for me, I like to look at the East River, now that you've been to New York, because John and I, where we lived, we face the East River, and our little apartment, and I'm telling you, it's little. It's only like 800, 900 square feet. We face- about, and we face the East River. So this is where Bowie used to come, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Elton. So to me, that's really where I felt it. So I'm on the East side where we would sit and John would look at the river and see boats go by because they reminded him of the mercy. Hmm. Would you say John Lennon was funny, moody, sensitive, intense, or are all of those? Oh, he was all of it. He didn't even know he was funny at times when he would say things, you know, it was, you know, we would all be laughing, and he'd go, what's funny? We would all say, you don't find that funny, you know, he, that was him. And he was, and, but you don't ever want to cross him if you did something wrong. Listen to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at 1am Eastern, and go to coasttocostam.com for more. This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.
