John Lennon in conversation with Tony Taylor

Michael O'Leary writes:

To start 2015 Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop is publishing a unique interview with John Lennon which was recorded when The Beatles were in New Zealand in 1964. It was recorded by Psychology Professor Dr Tony Taylor who was at the time doing a study into Beatlemania. 

It gives a remarkable insight into Lennon's thoughts regarding fame, music and life generally at a time when the group was still new to all the world-wide adulation they were receiving.  I think this is something of a coup for a New Zealand publisher as it must be one of the last unpublished interviews with John Lennon and it has been an honour to work with Dr Taylor on the project. 

You will note that my poem 'The Flipside of the Ballad of John and Yoko' appears at the end of the book as an antidote to the effects of fame. 

The book will not be available in shops but can be purchased through my e-mail: pukapuka@paradise.net.nz - at $35 per copy including postage within New Zealand. Or send a cheque to: Michael O'Leary, PO Box 42, Paekakariki, Kapiti 5034.

John Lennon

in conversation with

Tony Taylor

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Previously unpublished interviews recorded

in Wellington, June 1964

during The Beatles’ tour of New Zealand

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Together with details of the only reported study

of Beatlemania and brief notes of a broadcast on the topic

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Plus: The Flipside of the Ballad of John & Yoko

by Michael O’Leary

                                                                     Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop

Paekakariki

2015