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Author:	David Sheff
Title:	The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Publisher:	Playboy Press
Country:	USA
Date:	1981
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography, Music
ISBN-10:	0872237052
Total Editions:	3
First Published:	1981
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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208 pages, with 8 pages of black and white photos between pages 114 and 115. Book dimensions: 14.4 cms x 2.1 cms x 21.5 cms.

Interview conducted by David Sheff. Edited and foreword by G. Barry Golson, Executive Editor, Playboy.

Extract from the dust jacket flap:

Just two months before John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980, he and his wife, Yoko Ono, had completed what would become the most exhaustive and thorough interview session of his life. The couple had been retired from public life for five years, and had reemerged in a burst of creativity to record some new music - and with much to say. It was during these long sessions with Playboy interviewer David Sheff that Lennon decide to review his personal and professional life in full - often movingly, sometimes bitingly, and always honestly.

The magazine version of the interviews was on the newsstands as the tragedy took place in the archway of the Lennons' apartment building. Playboy's twenty million readers therefore had the interview in their hands when the news was announced and during the days of vigil and remembrance that followed. As Los Angeles Times arts editor Charles Champlin would later write, "David Sheff's sympathetic questions evoked so much of the Beatle past and of Lennon's intellectual past and present and future plans that the interview would hardly have been less engrossing and important even if it were not illuminated by tragedy."

But even though Playboy's interviews are noted for their length, only a portion of the over twenty hours of conversation could be published that month. There remained many more hours of unpublished thoughts, memories, and insights from the brilliant mind that helped to shape a generation. These have now been transcribed and integrated into the original magazine interview to provide readers with what is undoubtedly the autobiography Lennon would never write.

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David Sheff - The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Playboy Press - Hardcover - USA (1981)

Comments and Reviews


JPGR&B SUBS 5th Aug 2020		Whilst adding this book to the database and scanning it, I was amazed to find the original receipt for the purchase tucked inside. I well remember my visit to Georgetown, Washington DC, in October 1981 whilst on a business trip to the USA, but I had forgotten about this purchase. There are other items on the receipt but I don't remember what they were for!. Apart from a little (age-related) discolouring on the dust jacket, the book remains in near-mint condition.