John Lennon said he wouldn’t get himself ‘shot’ in chilling phone call 8 years before tragic murder
nypost.comPEOPLE.“It’ll cause excitement in its own way. But, er, you know, I’m still an artist, but a revolutionary artist, right?” the “Imagine” singer added.In a later scene, Lennon told a journalist he started taping his own phone calls out of fear for his life. “We started noticing people hanging outside the apartment.
And I have a driver, he’s an ex-cop. But we’re getting followed by this car, all the time,” he said. “So we’re all very nervous.”Eight years after the phone call with Keltner, Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment in New York City on December 8, 1980.
He was 40 years old.Before his death, Lennon decided to call off the Free the People Tour. According to PEOPLE, the documentary said that Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, fell out with Rubin “over the risk of violent confrontation at the Republican Convention.”“One to One: John & Yoko” premiered at the Venice Film Festival Friday and also played at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend.Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the project follows Lennon and Ono’s move from London to New York City nine years before his death.
It features archival footage of interviews and phone calls combined with concert footage and historical videos.In an interview with Deadline, Macdonald said he was approached about making the documentary by a producer at Mercury Studios.“I was a Beatles fan and was particularly fond of John, so I was never going to say no,” he said.
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