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The fourth of a five-part tribute based on a conversation between John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Peebles recorded in New York.

This week: The Withdrawal Feb 1975 - Dec 1979

'But funnily enough at the end of the "Rock 'n' Roll" album, and on a track called "Just Because" which Phil Spector wanted me to sing. I didn't know it that well, you hear me saying "and so we say farewell from Record Plant West", and something flashed through my mind as I said it, "am I really saying farewell to the business?" And I looked at the cover which I'd chosen, which was a picture of me in Hamburg the first time we got there. And I thought, am I going... is this some sort of comic [sic - "cosmic"?] thing?'

The full text of this interview, The Lennon Tapes, £1.95 from bookshops.

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Interviewee:
John Lennon
Interviewee:
Yoko Ono
Interviewer:
Andy Peebles
Producer:
Paul Williams

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