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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Caroline Davies

Long-lost John Lennon interview reveals US phone-tapping fears

John Lennon being interviewed by assembled reporters with microphones, as he stands next to Yoko Ono outside an airport exit labelled
Lennon expressed suspicion that the US government was ‘coming for me one way or the other’ in response to his anti-war activism. Photograph: Ron Frehm/AP

A long-lost interview with John Lennon, rediscovered in a basement by the young DJ who conducted it 50 years ago and in which the former Beatle speaks of fears the US government was tapping his phone, is being aired on the eve of what would have been the singer-songwriter’s 85th birthday.

Nicky Horne was 24 and an up-and-coming DJ with London’s Capital Radio when he was invited to the star’s New York apartment for a wide-ranging interview.

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