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Note: This isnt meant to be another ‘should the beatles have gotten back together’ thread, its more about Johns comments in Playboy and whats been written and said since his death.

Ive heard it be said that John was up for going back out on tour in 1981 and revisiting old Beatle tracks like I Want To Hold Your Hand and Help !. I’ve also heard it be said that John was up for meeting up with George, Paul and Ringo and doing something. However reading John’s comments during the September Playboy Interview he is very vocal when asked about playing together again

PLAYBOY: John, you’ve been asked this a thousand times, but why is it so unthinkable that the Beatles might get back together to make some music?

LENNON: Do you want to go back to high school? Why should I go back ten years to provide an illusion for you that I know does not exist? It cannot exist.

PLAYBOY: Then forget the illusion. What about just to make some great music again? Do you acknowledge that the Beatles made great music?

LENNON: Why should the Beatles give more? Didn’t they give everything on God ‘s earth for ten years? Didn’t they give themselves? You’re like the typical sort of love-hate fan who says, “Thank you for everything you did for us in the Sixties — would you just give me another shot? Just one more miracle?”

PLAYBOY: We’re not talking about miracles — just good music.

LENNON: When Rodgers worked with Hart and then worked with Hammerstein, do you think he should have stayed with one instead of working with the other? Should Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have stayed together because I used to like them together? What is this game of doing things because other people want it? The whole Beatle idea was to do what you want, right? To take your own responsibility.

So is that reunion talk a normal media taking one part and spinning it in out of context such a way that you get complete drivel thing or was there anything more to it? Is there any evidence from John which says he was willing or thinking of meeting up with the others? I havent seen anything to suggest there is.

I’d never heard that before just that John was looking to work the other 3 which seems so the opposite of what he was saying just 2 and but months before. Maybe the Double Fantasy sessions changed all that. Does anyone know anything? Maybe its a play on words and it wasnt a reunion but a meeting up like what happened with the Ringo album and Im The Greatest. Was the what become Ringo ‘Stop and Smell the Roses’ lp what was being looked at as common ground without the bullshit and pressure from the press and world?

The Beatles Anthology was lingering at that point (but known as The Long And Winding Road ) so maybe John was.

linkjws said

Von Bontee said
Wasn’t all the “reunion” talk just to give himself a legal pretext for his opposition to “Beatlemania” continuing to perform?

I literally just read that in “You Never Give Me Your Money “.

That certainly rings a bell. But who is the reference point (i dont own the book, i borrowed it from the library)? If true it would therefore appear even more the case that John was not in favour of returning to the fold (so to speak). 

As I Me Mine said John was one for speaking his mind at the time but it could change depending on where he was.

I suppose it comes down to source and who you believe. Did John ever state on record he was going to go out on tour and do beatle numbers of was it someone who ‘heard’ him say it? Was it Jack Douglas who said John was going to tour again i forget?

Its more taking it back to the core but again who do you believe and where do you draw the line.

Obviously we’ll never really know but it would be nice to get to the facts and eliminate the hearsay, gossip, and lines spun to preserve the idea that the Beatles would reunite and save the world.