E310. The Day I Met John & Yoko: Final Hours with a Legend
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Bridget sits down with Laurie Kaye to discuss her book, Confessions of A Rock N’ Roll Name-Dropper which covers her life leading up to conducting John Lennon's final interview on December 8th, 1980, hours before his tragic death. They cover her journey from a young music enthusiast in LA to becoming a respected rock journalist, including her pivotal moment of winning Rolling Stones concert tickets that led to her radio career, the best and worst day of her life, the emotional weight of writing the book which took 40 years to sit down and write - largely due to the trauma of Lennon's death and her guilt about encountering his killer earlier that day. They also discuss her challenging childhood, the development of her interviewing techniques, and her impressive career interviewing music legends like The Ramones, Talking Heads, Little Richard, and Beatles producer George Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm with Lori Kay, everyone. |
| 0:02.1 | Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. |
| 0:03.7 | Thank you for coming on. |
| 0:05.4 | Well, thank you for having me. |
| 0:07.6 | This is very exciting. |
| 0:09.0 | I love when people refer people to this podcast and they're like, you know, this woman has this book and she's really cool and you might have a great conversation with her. |
| 0:18.8 | And it's always exciting for me to be able to just to be able to meet new people |
| 0:25.0 | who have, I might not be exposed to any other way. |
| 0:28.2 | And it sounds like you have quite the life story that you've told partially in your book |
| 0:34.6 | Confessions of a rock and roll name Dropper, which is a great name, |
| 0:39.0 | by the way, great title for a book. Well, actually, the title of the book is Confessions of a |
| 0:44.4 | rock and roll name dropper, my life leading up to John Lennon's last interview. That's a very |
| 0:50.7 | important part to keep in the title. Yes. That's true. |
| 0:55.3 | Tell me how are you inspired to write this book? |
| 1:03.2 | What inspired you to put this down? |
| 1:06.7 | Well, of course, I was leading up to what I was sure was going to be the best day of my life. |
| 1:13.9 | My interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Dakota on December 8th, 1980. |
| 1:21.0 | And tragically, when he was shot and killed mere hours after our interview ended, it became the worst day of my life. |
| 1:30.2 | So I still call it the best and worst day. And it took me years to write my book. And something I |
| 1:39.0 | realized while considering writing my memoir was that unless you kept a daily diary and written down what goes |
| 1:46.5 | on in your life every day of the year, which unfortunately I never did, lifetime memories |
| 1:52.8 | can be really hard to come back to, especially as you get older like I am. And plus, if you're |
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