John Lennon blows his top at Al Capp (Montreal, 1969) — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
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4. 0:21kishish you feel like changing it
5. 0:26you w hi hi is this Mr C yeah yes
6. 0:31oh I'm that Dreadful meand all fascist
7. 0:36how do you
8. 0:37do
9. 0:39ni you like to theedge of the bed here
10. 0:43have something hard for instance this
11. 0:45too seductive yeah there's a chair cor I
12. 0:49like yeah well we're those famous freaks
13. 0:51yeah part of the
14. 0:54game
15. 0:57uh I it's you know I I I so far you've
16. 1:01been confronted mainly with admirers and
17. 1:03I may wind up to be one you never can
18. 1:06tell we've had all sorts in here believe
19. 1:08me I'm sure you have I
20. 1:12uh one of the things that that U
21. 1:16interested me was the the method you've
22. 1:18CH this is to inspire peace clearly yeah
23. 1:22we're trying to sell it like soap you
24. 1:23know and the only way to sell is to
25. 1:25focus attention and sell every day well
26. 1:27you feel like being in bed compels more
27. 1:28attention than if you were sitting on
28. 1:29chair yes and it makes it easier for us
29. 1:32cuz we talk 10 hours a day and it's
30. 1:33functional for us to be lying down well
31. 1:36now uh uh well don't you think being in
32. 1:40bed is one thing but but uh you could go
33. 1:43further you could shower together yes of
34. 1:45course we just did it I said I did it
35. 1:47alone what about what about during World
36. 1:50War II if Hitler and Churchill had
37. 1:51gotten into bed which Hitler would have
38. 1:53clearly enjoy do you think that we I
39. 1:56think that church and Hitler got in bed
40. 1:58a lot of people would be today I see
41. 2:01that
42. 2:03would that's a it may you know it's it's
43. 2:06a way of doing it now suppose Montgomery
44. 2:11had gone to bed with raml beautiful you
45. 2:13like
46. 2:15that do you feel that that that uh uh
47. 2:19this continent is the one place to
48. 2:21preach peace or will you preach equally
49. 2:23in PE sure we want well we got to find
50. 2:26out I believe it's easier to get in
51. 2:28Moscow than it is to get in the states
52. 2:29for a kickoff but don't you feel that
53. 2:32that they need you now in ping and Hani
54. 2:35uh they need because they're killing
55. 2:37people needed at all we're needed
56. 2:39everywhere but you can't be everywhere
57. 2:40at once but you you you you you I do
58. 2:43hope that you plan to make them as
59. 2:45peaceful as you made these blood crazy
60. 2:47Canadians no we really talking to the
61. 2:49the best thing we've done so far is talk
62. 2:52to the people of Berkeley and we think
63. 2:53we had some influence in holding back
64. 2:55any violence that was going to come out
65. 2:56of that and we believe that and we talk
66. 2:59to them solid hour before during this
67. 3:01last week we talk to them every day we
68. 3:04talk on the phone on the radio station
69. 3:06live saw them throwing rocks at CS just
70. 3:08a couple of days ago you better talk to
71. 3:10them a little more well nobody got shot
72. 3:12this time did
73. 3:13they no nobody got shot you doing about
74. 3:16it what am I doing about it I'm cheering
75. 3:19the
76. 3:20police that's precisely what I'm doing
77. 3:22about it why what now you people have a
78. 3:25home in London are you permitting people
79. 3:28to come in and defecate on the rug smash
80. 3:30the furniture and you
81. 3:33up why do you want them to do it at want
82. 3:36to do
83. 3:37it we're telling them to protest some
84. 3:39other way if they' stayed in bed Bley
85. 3:42they wouldn't have got
86. 3:43killed I'll simmer down simmer
87. 3:47down conversation instead of you know I
88. 3:51I be be delighted with any conversation
89. 3:53okay I I you know I'd like to add to
90. 3:56what you said about your buyers you know
91. 3:58it's good to just
92. 4:02I can see why you want Fe God though you
93. 4:04can't have much from my own observation
94. 4:07but anyway from your point of view
95. 4:09everything looks more from my own point
96. 4:11of view I am sorry for you now here I
97. 4:15read something that I that you said that
98. 4:17you were very shy people in the glob yes
99. 4:20you are sir and U and yet Le
100. 4:25are does that prove you're not shy
101. 4:28certainly not only the shest people in
102. 4:30the world would take pictures like this
103. 4:33the shy people uh are they do they ever
104. 4:35become naked or not you think that are
105. 4:39with your description of yourselves if
106. 4:42that a picture of two shy people I like
107. 4:46to sh may I ask you would you consider
108. 4:49yourself shy well I'm just normal but I
109. 4:52think that everybody owes it to the
110. 4:54world to prove they have pubic hair and
111. 4:56you've done it you've done it and I tell
112. 4:59you that I applaud you for it I mean if
113. 5:02you want to prove it you can prove it
114. 5:04though I I don't feel that there's any
115. 5:07great interest in it clearly you must
116. 5:09have felt the world wanted to know what
117. 5:12your private parts looked like and now
118. 5:14the world knows now now that you have a
119. 5:18song said in one of the lines and
120. 5:20correct me pleas in Christ that ain't E
121. 5:23I didn't say the lyricss go Christ you
122. 5:25know it ain't easy you know how hard it
123. 5:27can be the way things are
124. 5:30go in they're going to crucify me and
125. 5:32you baby but in the in the then in the
126. 5:34lyric you said they were going to
127. 5:35crucify you yeah if you take it
128. 5:37literally well how did you mean it I I
129. 5:40know that it means everything you want
130. 5:42it to mean what did you want it to mean
131. 5:45they crucify me and you and everyone
132. 5:47else if he's crucified you I haven't I
133. 5:50haven't said that they were going to
134. 5:51crucify me i' I've not you make the
135. 5:53claim they're going to crucify you
136. 5:56everyone but you said they're going to
137. 5:58crucify me going to take everything
138. 6:00literally me and I say I permit you to
139. 6:04speak for me who speaking I took that
140. 6:06Liberty Mr C well it's too much of a
141. 6:08liberty speaking on behalf of the people
142. 6:10in general you know in a
143. 6:12politic upset you it does upset me if
144. 6:15I'm going to choose spokesman I'll
145. 6:16choose vaugh Monroe if I can choose my
146. 6:20own
147. 6:21sing and if I I'll choose Madam new but
148. 6:24I can choose to sing about what I want
149. 6:26in whichever fashion I wish yes but you
150. 6:28mustn't include me now you're not my
151. 6:30spokesman are we agreed I'm everyone's
152. 6:33spokesman no you're not mine not mine
153. 6:36everybody no you're if you write an
154. 6:38article whatever article that may be
155. 6:41it's going to affect us it's going to
156. 6:43speaking
157. 6:44for I as a representative of the human
158. 6:48race I'm speaking for us all whether you
159. 6:50like it or not whatever race you're the
160. 6:52representative of I ain't part of it
161. 6:56maybe yours is the human race mine is
162. 6:58something bless her suit who do you
163. 7:01write your cartoons for I write my
164. 7:03cartoons for money just as you sing your
165. 7:06songs exactly the same reason and
166. 7:09exactly the same reason much of this is
167. 7:11happening too if the truth be told you
168. 7:14think I could earn money by some other
169. 7:15way I sit in bed for seven days taking
170. 7:17[ __ ] from people like you I could I
171. 7:20could write a song in an hour look here
172. 7:23now don't say this you got into the bed
173. 7:24so people like me see you not for money
174. 7:27that's for your sa uh it it it won't do
175. 7:30you any real harm uh uh ex you may get
176. 7:33but I can earn money
177. 7:35I do this I tell you what would do you
178. 7:38harm so could I I could make a lot more
179. 7:40drawing people like you than confronting
180. 7:43you and I must say it's much more
181. 7:44appetizing drawing them because I can
182. 7:46leave I prefer singing to doing this but
183. 7:48I'm doing this what you've just done is
184. 7:51when you said taking [ __ ] from people
185. 7:53like you now I was invited here you knew
186. 7:56I was coming that's right we're not
187. 7:58doing it for you indicated I was doing
188. 8:00it oh you have matters well I'm your
189. 8:04guest and really no you're not this is
190. 8:08your
191. 8:09bedroom but now now I I then you we I
192. 8:13made some note about but this business
193. 8:16of going to crucify me what indications
194. 8:18have you had that you're about to be
195. 8:20crucified I'd say we're all about to be
196. 8:23crucified if we don't do something about
197. 8:25war yes all
198. 8:28well that isn't anything new that's been
199. 8:30said long who's saying it's something
200. 8:32new uh who's making any new
201. 8:35claims well you bring this with you they
202. 8:38followed you in no they couldn't have
203. 8:41followed me in cuz I had a
204. 8:43deodorant I'm delighted to have met you
205. 8:45madam new and JC I couldn't I couldn't
206. 8:51you are the our
207. 8:54an but I'm sure the other I'm sure the
208. 8:57other three guys the the other three
209. 9:00fellas are
210. 9:02Englishmen what does that mean you think
211. 9:05about it get out I'll try and work it
212. 9:07out now dere oh really come on well I'm
213. 9:10not having leave leave we have to we
214. 9:13have
215. 9:15to me for Derek it's not me to forgive
216. 9:18you it's for your
217. 9:20psychiatrist I'm baby hello
218. 9:24hi you just did a great deal for PE Mr C
219. 9:27you don't how much
220. 9:32well little it's Pleasant to drop in
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