"I know the difference between the phone being normal when I pick it up and when every time I pick it up, there's a lot of noises. [The administration was] coming for me one way or the other; I mean, they were harassing me. And I'd open the door and there'd be guys standing on the other side of the street. I'd get in a car and they'd be following me in a car and not hiding."
"He explains he wanted to just throw away his fourth solo studio album, Walls and Bridges, until friends persuaded him not to. He also expressed now poignant hopes that his best music was yet to come, and that apart from acts of God, I will be around for another 60 years and doing it until I drop."
A long-lost 1975 interview with John Lennon was rediscovered by DJ Nicky Horne and scheduled to air on what would have been Lennon's 85th birthday. Horne, then 24 and a Capital Radio DJ, recorded the conversation at Lennon's Dakota apartment; parts aired in 1975 while the original reel-to-reel tapes were recently found in a dusty box. Lennon described suing the Nixon administration over alleged illegal wiretapping and expressed suspicions of monitoring related to his anti-war activism. He recounted noises on his phone, visible surveillance and being followed, and noted repairs in the Dakota cellar. He considered discarding Walls and Bridges but friends persuaded him otherwise, and he voiced belief that his best music remained ahead and that he expected to continue performing "apart from acts of God" for decades.
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