Response: I interviewed John Lennon, and he was no ultra-left radical

His association with 'serious revolutionaries' was brief and much regrettedYou reported on the 1968 interview with John Lennon that I published in the New Statesman, which revolved around Lennon's "furious" response to a letter attacking him and his song Revolution for being "unfavourably compared to the BBC radio drama Mrs Dale's Diary" (Day in the life: Lennon's six-hour interview with student revealed, 17 December).The article says Lennon was "enraged" by the letter, in "Tariq Ali's radical j...

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