I Met the Walrus: How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever
My friend Hollis, an editor at Harper, sent me a copy of the beautifully produced, illustrated book I Met the Walrus: How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever.
Jerry Levitan was 14 years old when he sneaked into John and Yoko's hotel room to interview them. They welcomed him and allowed him to conduct the interview. Forty years later, Jerry wrote a book about the experience.
After hearing John was in Toronto for a "bed in," Jerry tracked him down at the King Edward Hotel and convinced the world's biggest rock star to sit down for an exclusive forty-minute interview. John talked candidly about war, politics, the scandalous Two Virgins album, and the supposed subliminal messages in his music.I Met the Walrus: How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever.Now, forty years later, it's all here: Jerry's once-in-a-lifetime adventure, illustrated by acclaimed artist James Braithwaite and featuring never before seen photographs of John and Yoko. Also included in the book is Jerry's memorabilia from that day — notes from John and Yoko, the secret code to contact him, drawings, John's doodles, and much more. Complete with an audio and video DVD of the interview that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, I Met the Walrus is an immortalized one-on-one moment with John--a must-have for Lennon fans around the world, as well as anyone who has ever dreamed of meeting a hero.
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Foolish author, everyone knows the walrus was Paul.
Trailer for the I met the Walrus movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk
Pretty amazing animation.
Salman Rushdie's novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" features a character referred to as 'The Walrus". The Walrus is the head engineer in charge of "The Eggheads" who make stories and dreams come true through a "process to difficult to explain". The tie in to Lennon is the phrase from the story "They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus'.
Just a little trivia...
I am not a very big John Lennon fan (I love some of his works, I could leave some other works), but this is a fascinating project. I'll likely check it out at a bookstore (if stocked in any) - thanks Mark!
"Here's another clue for you all/The walrus was Paul"-JL "I am the eggman/I am the walrus/coo coo ka choo"-JL It's hard to say who the walrus was, on the cover of Magical Mystery Tour they are all in animal costumes and you can't really determine which Beatle is which. Of course, Paul probably wasn't the walrus because he was dead (isn't the walrus a Viking symbol of death?) anyway. Or maybe everyone was just really high.
The project is totally fascinating and the animation is wonderful.
It's funny to listen to Lennon in that trailer though. He was a a hero of mine in my teenage years and he's gone down in history as a rocker-guru, but he really sounds like stoner-cucko.
Fine line, I guess.
We had Jerry on the show last year (The Hour on CBC), here's a link to the interview for those of you that might be interested - http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=728754579
...watch the trailer... for the BOOK?
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Here's another clue for you all. The Walrus was Paul
@#3:
Doesn't the song go, "they are the EggMEN"?
"Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye/Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess/Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down/I am the eggman, they are the eggmen/I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob" I am poster 3, was at a random terminal at work, obviously very busy.
No, not poster 3, poster 5. OK I'm done...
Glass Onion White album -
I told you about the walrus and me - man
You know that we're as close as can be - man
Well here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul
Standing on the cast iron shore - yeah
Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet - yeah
Looking through a glass onion
Cool story bro.
No, I am...
If you weren't there and you don't know, songs about hotrods and surfing were wearing a little thin, folk music was running out of gas, Paul Anka was getting too old to make teanage girls scream, and Elvis was approaching lunar proportions. The market was hungry for something different...
These four scruffy punks in a skiffle band honed their image. The charisma was natural. Bango, being cute was suddenly adorable. And lucrative.
That was the easy part.
They endured a lot of crap and powered thru it all as pioneers not only in recording, but in lifestyle and social philosophy, leading a huge generation of youth to congeal and rise as a formidable market, and as a political force. When many cried out for revolution, they stood up for Peace.
Rest in Peace, John and George.
People, keep up with your Lennon history. Read the Rolling Stone interview:
http://imaginepeace.com/news/archives/4385
Q. In “Glass Onion” you say, “The Walrus is Paul,” yet in the new album you admit that you were the Walrus.
A. “I Am the Walrus” was originally the B side of “Hello Goodbye”! I was still in my love cloud with Yoko and I thought, well, I’ll just say something nice to Paul: “It’s all right, you did a good job over these few years, holding us together.” He was trying to organize the group, and organize the music, and be an individual and all that, so I wanted to thank him. I said “the Walrus is Paul” for that reason. I felt, “Well, he can have it. I’ve got Yoko, and thank you, you can have the credit.”
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That’s what I’m saying: I was the Walrus, whatever that means. We saw the movie “Alice in Wonderland” in L.A. and the Walrus is a big
capitalist that ate all the fuckin’ oysters. If you must know, that’s what he was even though I didn’t remember this when I wrote it.
Uhh yeah Paul was the Walrus. Yoko picking out his temp mistress is what me not like John the person. His work cool him as a person just a bit cruel.
I had heard, way back during the "Paul is dead" scandal, that walrus, in Latin, is corpse. So as I understood it, John sang "I am the walrus", and later, in Glass Onion, "Here's another clue for you all: the walrus is Paul."
I still larf me arse off when I see Paul on the Chris Farley show saying "I wasn't really dead."
"Hey John....re-remember wh-when you were uhh...in The Beatles? Y-y-you remember that?"
"Yes."
"(gasp) uhhh...whh-ye-...uh...th-that was pretty cool."
/Chris Farley
I imagine it went somewhat like that...
I chanced upon "I Met the Walrus" at the movies while watching a collection of animated film shorts. It was fantastic.
In the David Wigg interviews, George tells David, "if you listen closely, I'm the Walrus too".
guys john was the walrus
"I was the Walrus, but now i'm john"