Last Interview

All We Are Saying – John Lennon and Yoko Ono

by David Sheff

Sidgwick & Jackson, Macmillan, 2000, Revised edition
ISBN 0283073179
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Near Fine
Light edge and shelf wear with light rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, remainder line to foredge (see photographs)

“As never before published, this is the full version of John Lennon’s last major interview before his assassination on 8 December 1980.  It reflects twenty hours of tapes taken by leading Playboy interviewer David Sheff, over three weeks that September.  It is a rare and poignant document, and a testament to one of the shapers of the late twentieth century.
Here John sums it all up: the Beatles, his wives and partners, the legacy of his childhood, the sowing of the seeds of his rebellion and his artistry, the music, politics, passion and peace.  With hindsight, anyone can read portents and meanings into what Lennon says here, since he often talked of life and death…”