All We Are Saying
The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
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ISBN10: 1250625068
ISBN13: 9781250625069
Trade Paperback
288 Pages
$16.99
CA$22.99
Originally published by Playboy Press in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All We Are Saying is a rich and vivid interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, wide-ranging in its coverage of art, creativity, the music business, their extraordinary childhoods, privacy, the true story of how the Beatles broke up, how Lennon and Paul McCartney collaborated on the greatest Beatles songs, parenthood, money, feminism, religion, and insecurity. Of course, at the heart of the conversation is the deep, rare romantic and spiritual bond between Lennon and Ono.
Sympathetic and insightful questions from New York Times bestselling author David Sheff set the tone for Lennon's responses, and Sheff’s presence sets the scene, as he walks through the kitchen door of the musicians’ Dakota apartment and accompanies the famous couple to the studio, where they were recording what would turn out to be Lennon’s final albums.
Sheff's new introduction looks at his forty-year-old interview afresh, and examines how what he learned from Lennon has resonated with him as a man and a parent. This is a knockout interview and a crucial piece of Beatles history: playful, intense, and inspiring.
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Praise for All We Are Saying
“A fascinating, detailed glimpse into the workings of a musical genius . . . A valuable piece of work.”—Joe Klein, The New York Times Book Review
“David Sheff’s sympathetic questions evoked so much of the Beatle past and of Lennon’s intellectual past and present and future plans that the interview would hardly have been less engrossing and important even it if were not illuminated by tragedy."—Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
“The interview is lively proof that some of the best Lennon/Ono art was their life.”—Jay Cocks, Time
“The most revealing self portrait of John Lennon’s career.”—People
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John & Yoko • Forty Years On
“Her life was saved by rock ’n’ roll” is a line from the iconic Velvet Underground song, but I could have written it, because rock ’n’ roll saved mine.
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