One to One: John & Yoko (2024) Movie Script
1
Ladies and gentlemen,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono!
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Two, three, four
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
Qu pasa, New York?
Qu pasa, New York?
Whoo!
Good morning, folks.
Have you
had your breakfast yet?
K-double L-Y
I just want to open
the microphones to you
to say anything you want to
to New York City.
Well, uh, how you doing,
New York City?
It's a good old city, yes.
- It's a beautiful place.
- It's a beauty.
I just got to see
the Village for the first time,
and it's really a groove.
There was a nice guy singing
that the Pope smokes dope
and all those sort of songs
in Washington Square.
It was beautiful,
you know what I mean.
I really feel at home there.
Yes?
I'd like to ask
John a question.
Sure.
- John?
- Yeah?
I can't believe
I'm speaking to a myth.
- A myth?
- Yeah.
Myth World
or Myth Universe?
Can I speak
to Yoko, please?
- I'm here.
- Yoko?
- Yes.
- I thought
I'd tell you
that you're very beautiful.
Oh, that's very sweet of you.
I'm sure my husband loves that.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Recently I've been wondering
exactly how The Beatles
are as people.
Well, The Beatles
don't exist anymore.
I don't want to recreate
the past.
You know, I wanna be me now.
Right, well,
having you in New York, like,
- for the past week or so...
- Yeah.
...and listening to
you and Yoko on the radio...
- Yeah.
- ...it's really...
it's really hitting home that
you really are people,
you know.
I'm sitting here talking
with John and Yoko
on their bed.
This bed we inherited
from the previous owner
used to be a ch...
made out of church pews.
- Oh, I see.
- Isn't that fascinating?
So we're in a very holy bed
here, Howard,
and the three of us
are on the bed.
All dressed, of course.
We're very comfortable here,
especially like
having TV, you know,
- 24 hours a day or something.
- Suits me fine.
Suits me fine.
What are your
favorite programs?
I just like TV, you know.
To me it replaced the fireplace
when I was a child.
And if you want to know
what 20 million Americans
are talking about on
Saturday night,
it's what they saw
on Friday night on TV.
It's a window on the world.
Whatever it is, that's
that image of ourselves
that we're portraying.
Ain't nothing dead about us.
We ain't gonna die.
- 'Nough said.
- We are not dying here.
A very famous choral group
will now entertain us.
And if the music is square,
it's because I like it square.
President Nixon,
stop bombing human beings,
animals and vegetation.
You go to church on Sundays
and pray to Jesus Christ.
If Jesus Christ were
here tonight,
you would not dare
drop another bomb.
Bless the Berrigans
and bless Daniel Ellsberg.
Ma! He's making eyes at me
Ma! He's awfully nice to me
See... see, um,
Nixon will find anything
he needs to enhance his power.
The fact is, is there's got to
be polarization in the country.
There's gotta be po... Wait,
listen. I get two sentences out,
and you act like
you're going to the toilet,
you know. It's "Uh, uh, uh, uh."
Listen, why don't you shut up
and let me talk.
You invited me down here,
you said,
"You've gotta come here. We have
no music, we have no guests.
If you don't come,
we have no guests."
Now you ask me a question,
you keep quiet.
Maybe the punchline will
contain your answer, you know?
- So don't be so constipated.
- I'm just...
Don't be so constipated.
"I'm just, I'm just."
Just relax.
- I'm disappointed. You're so...
- I'm disappointed in you.
You're so incapable of
functioning...
I'm totally incapable.
I'm a misfit.
Haven't you realized?
I'm a misfit.
I don't fit into
this plastic TV show
with this plastic TV
personality.
I don't fit into that.
Colored and permanent press.
I'm sorry.
Well, I've been using
this Clorox 2 All Fabric Bleach.
Maybe it'll work...
Here I am at Dylan's garbage.
It's quite a while after
the garbage article came out,
so I really don't expect to
find anything.
Hmm.
"Progresso Italian peeled
tomatoes."
Ah, not bad. Not bad.
"Thomas's English muffins."
That's a big plug
for Thomas's English muffins.
Let's see what else is there.
Clorox!
Dylan uses Clorox.
Oh, The Daily News.
The Daily News.
That makes a lot of sense.
Judging from Dylan's
politics lately,
he's been reading
the Daily News.
Let's see what else is there.
Uh, a syringe.
A needle.
- 8071.
- Is Howard there, please?
This is his service.
Oh, look, could you
tell him John Lennon called?
L-E-N-N-O-N.
Uh-huh.
- L-E-N-N-O-N.
- O-N.
Are you a member
of The Beatles?
- That's right, yeah.
- Oh, you are?
- Yeah.
- Oh. Okay, then.
He has my number.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
The attack
is still going on here
at Attica State Prison.
We've all been gassed.
I've been gassed.
It's an awful scene.
William Kunstler has said
that people are dying in
there, and...
I agree with that. I think
people are dying in there.
And the scene is...
I'm gonna cut this off.
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
The queen...
I mean, the British press
actually called
Yoko ugly in the papers,
and I've never seen that
about any woman or man.
Even if a person is ugly,
you don't normally sort of say
it in the paper,
you know, "That ugly woman."
And she's not ugly.
And if she was,
you wouldn't be so mean.
They even say 'attractive' about
the most awful-looking people
just to be kind.
This is
a CBS News Special Report.
The President in China.
Here's a man
that I know very little about,
other than what I have read
in newspapers and magazines,
and what I have heard
on television.
And, quite honestly,
my feelings are quite negative.
But John wanted this young man
on the show.
- Who is it?
- It's Jerry Rubin.
Jerry Rubin, yeah.
What is the new Jerry Rubin
thinking about these days?
I'm glad you asked that.
Uh, we're gonna support
Nixon for president
because by going to China,
he's furthering
Communist revolutions
throughout the world.
I'm just kidding.
I'm really just kidding.
I'm really just kidding.
What he's really done is
automate the war in Vietnam
so that it's machines
killing people.
Created a situation
where 43 people
can be murdered at Attica.
Um, created a situation
where four kids
can be killed at Kent State
and people are afraid, scared.
You really believe
he created that situation?
The atmosphere in the country
is one of just death.
The repression is so heavy
that anybody who does anything
gets arrested, jailed, killed.
That people are, like,
very pessimistic.
Wherever you go right now,
there's tremendous pessimism.
You mean youth in general,
whether they're radical
or anything. Just youth
in general. We noticed that.
But how do we change that,
you know?
- Because...
- I'm really not
the political type,
but I want to say something.
My parents came over here
and got married in this country.
They came to escape oppression
in Eastern Europe.
I did manage, with scholarships,
to go to college
and medical school.
And I became a professor,
and I became Surgeon General,
and I can't think of
any other country
where this could happen.
And I've
done a lot of travelling.
Wait a minute!
But that doesn't make us
the Indians.
It's the Indians who were here
first and who got wiped out.
Ask the Blacks who were
brought here as slaves.
Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got juju eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair
Down to his knee
Got to be a joker
'Cause he's so hard to please
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He wear no shoeshine
He got walrus gumboot
He got honky finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say, '"I know you
You know me"
One thing I can tell you
Is you got to be free
Come together
Right now
Over you
Just for a change.
Shoot me
He roller-coaster
He got early warnin'
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say, "One and one
And one is three"
Got to be good lookin'
'Cause he's so hard to see
Come together
Right now
Stop the war
Shoot me
Shoot me
Come together
Come together
Come together, hey
Come together, hey
Come together
Journalist:
...a spontaneous
and unrehearsed news interview
with George Wallace,
former governor of Alabama,
questioned by CBS news
correspondent Martin Agronsky.
Governor,
you've repeatedly
objected to being
called a racist.
Yes, sir.
You don't regard
yourself as a racist?
No, sir, I don't
regard myself as a racist,
and I think the biggest racists
in the world
are those who call other
folks racist.
Open the gate
Put your right foot here
Just stand up straight
When you buy it clear
Walk in, America
I don't think you have
to even consider it art.
You can just consider it
what it is.
- It's communication.
- Communication. Right.
"Wash your bottom
with fresh water after
depositing night soil on earth."
"Don't spread merde
round your behind
with toilet tissue
torn from trees.
Arabs wash with left hand,
eat with right.
Indians use brass lota
to pour water down crack
and wash fingers clean.
Only US honkies smear faeces
'twixt their buttocks
with clean paper.
Nixon in underwear.
Kissinger, Goldwater in shorts.
Mrs. Roosevelt,
late in her bloomers.
Judges, senators and US Federal
Reserve bank presidents
most have smelly, moist behinds
unfit for love play...
...soiled underclothes
that stick and all make war.
Few can relax their sphincters
and sit easy.
Carry plastic cup to washroom
and clean your behind
like the mass of mankind."
Sculpture by Yoko Ono and Allen
Ginsberg, October 8th, 1971.
A new hat, or rather a bonnet,
was tossed into the Democratic
presidential race today,
that of Mrs. Shirley Chisholm,
the first Black woman
to serve in Congress.
How do you do?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
How are you? How are you?
How do you do?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
I'm Shirley Chisholm,
how are you?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
How are you doing?
- God bless you, darling.
- Thank you.
- God bless you.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
How are you?
Fine, fine, thank you. Fine.
You have the courage
of your conviction,
which very few others have.
Thank you very much.
So the very best of luck
to you, my dear.
I appreciate it
deeply, thank you.
The hold-up man
remained inside the bank.
Then, bizarrely, the gunman,
John Wojtowicz,
asked that his homosexual lover
be brought to him.
The lover arrived from
a local psychiatric hospital,
but he refused to go inside.
...to teach the world...
World's smallest
electronic calculator by Sharp.
Price tag to match.
3, 45.
All right, give me some cover!
Duvalier is the lone medic
in the platoon. He's scared...
scared that someday
he's going to get killed
- picking up a wounded buddy.
- Get him back here
if you can.
Can you move him?
Stop the bleeding!
- Hello?
- Hello.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
This is like a dream,
seeing 15,000 people
in one place demanding
freedom for John Sinclair.
And it'll be...
And it'll be impossible
for the judges
to keep him
in jail for ten years
for smoking a flower.
This rally is gonna be the first
of prison rallies
all across this country
demanding that
they lay down the bars
and let all the prisoners out!
But there are...
There are a lot of problems.
There's a whole lot of slander
going on about Bob Dylan,
when Bob Dylan was the person
who formed our consciousness.
And Bob... It was Bob Dylan's
music and poetry
is the reason that
we're here, you know?
So we gotta go back
into this rally
and not only free John Sinclair,
but free the 200,000
Black people in jail.
Free all the people in jail.
Defeat Nixon.
Really end the Vietnam War
and the sick system
that poisons our stomachs
with this lousy food,
and build a revolutionary
movement.
Good night, Bernadine,
wherever you are.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono!
We came here to say
to all of you
that apathy isn't it,
and that we can do something.
Okay, so flower power didn't
work. So what?
We start again.
This song I wrote
for John Sinclair.
Okay, "John Sinclair,"
nice and easy now.
Sneaky.
One, two. One, two, three, four.
It ain't fair,
John Sinclair
In the stir
For breathin' air
Won't you care for
John Sinclair?
In the stir
For breathin' air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me
They gave him ten for two
What else can
Judge Columba do?
We gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta,
Gotta set him free
- Hello?
- John:
- Yeah!
- John:
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
I don't know, man.
They just sort of told me to go.
Yippee!
Hey!
Hi. Good.
I know.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. Right.
It's beautiful. It was
a victory, man, just like that.
Yeah, right.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Because we can really
do it, see?
Our God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
Spaghetti is superb
topped with Rag.
Meat loaf, out of this world.
"Rockefeller
Pulled the trigger"
That is what
The people feel
Attica State, Attica State
We're all mates
With Attica State
I can't remember the last verse.
I've forgotten the rest.
Okay, shall we start?
Yeah, okay. So, John...
Hey, Yoko, take
your legs out of bed
so you don't look
like you're in bed.
The main thing that Yoko
and I are doing,
and Jerry, and all the people
we're involved with,
is to change the apathy
that all the youth have.
We must get them excited
about what we can do again,
and that's why we're gonna
go on the road,
speak to them, sing to them
and do anything to get
them alive again.
And that's our job,
and that will...
From America, it will spread
to the rest of the world.
Viva la revolucin.
Yes, they've looked down their
nose at you and me a long time.
They've called us rednecks,
the Republicans
and the Democrats.
Well, we're going to show
that there sure are
a lot of rednecks
in this country,
and when they get together...
You're gonna
Make it after all
Yoko had a child in America, and
her first husband was American.
After the divorce,
the relationship was all right
between us and Mr. Cox,
and we had Kyoko,
and then he had her,
and it was fine.
But one day, something happened
and we just didn't see her.
And Yoko hasn't seen her child
for two years.
For two years we've been chasing
him all over the world.
Snow, don't worry,
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, Kyoko
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko
If Kyoko is watching, I'd like
you to know that I love you.
And if you miss me at all,
you could try to reach me.
AJ, AJ, AJ, AJ Weberman
AJ, AJ, AJ, AJ Weberman
Bob Dylan's not your enemy
He's just your friend
You are just a Dylanologist
One day, AJ went to
Bleecker and MacDougal Street
Looking through
Bob Dylan's garbage can
He found a letter that Dylan
Wrote to Johnny Cash
Another thing
For rock interpretation
Dylan said to Weberman
"Who the hell are you?
Why do you
Always bother me?'"
Excuse me, we're doing a survey,
so to speak,
on your reaction to the
president's speech last night.
What do you think about
the president?
I thought it was wonderful.
- You approve?
- Yes.
I am 100 percent behind him.
He should have done it
three years ago.
I didn't think he had
much choice.
I think it was a necessary
decision,
and he's got a lot of guts.
It's insane what's occurring.
Bombing of the dikes?
This war is being turned
into more than a criminal war.
It's being turned into more
of a genocide.
I think someone's going to have
to develop a new word.
I think it's terrible.
I think he's sick.
Instant karma's
Gonna get you
It's gonna knock you right
On the head
You better
Get yourself together
Pretty soon
You're gonna be dead
What in the world
You trying to do?
Laughing in
The face of love
And who on earth do you
Think you are?
A superstar?
Well, how right you are
Instant karma's
Gonna get you
It's gonna knock you right
Off your feet
You'd better get yourself
Together, darling
And join the human race
Why in the world
Are we here?
Surely not to live in
Pain and fear
Why on earth are you there?
Vote!
'Cause you're everywhere
Come and get your share
Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on
On and on
Yeah, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on and on
Yeah, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on and on and on
And on and on and on
You are going to die.
Your parents are going to die.
Your grandparents
may already be dead.
Every generation dies.
And I read an interesting
statement the other day
that war does not increase
death at all.
And I thought about it,
what a strange statement.
That war does not increase
death. Why?
Because death is total
in every generation.
Here is a generation of
young people.
I don't know how many people
are here at this moment,
but there's tens of thousands
of us here.
This whole generation of you
sitting before me right now
are going to die.
Peace now!
Peace now! Peace now!
Peace now!
Peace now! Peace now!
We need John
to help us rise up
like a hurricane,
to sweep this man Nixon and his
war-makers into the sea.
We need John.
Okay, we ain't used to speaking,
but we all know why we're here.
We're here to bring
the boys home.
But let's not forget
the machines.
Bring the machines home,
and then
we really get somewhere.
It's a washer and dryer.
A Delta Airlines jet
from Detroit to Miami
was taken over
by eight passengers
who demanded
one million dollars
and a one-way trip to Algeria,
what is believed to be
the largest ransom
in the history of
hijacks to date.
The agent selected to hand over
the cash to the hijackers
was dressed in just his
under shirt and bathing trunks.
Well,
that was quite some story,
but you had quite an experience
along with that, didn't you?
I had an experience.
The authorities down there
obstructed us at every turn.
At one point they tried to grab
my camera,
and, as a newsman,
I had to refuse.
That's a Department
of Public Safety officer
trying to wrestle the camera.
Sergeant Cleverly.
This officer is the one
that now has me on the ground
when, uh, we were going to air.
That foot belongs
to Jessica Savitch,
and always one to stand up
for freedom of the press.
She's giving you
a little help there.
Jessi did give me
a little help.
Ono's like Irish too, right?
O-apostrophe-no.
And now,
we'd like to do a little song...
We're showing all of you harm...
- Just once more this one, John.
- Yoko Ono.
- Once more. Just this line.
- Okay.
If you could make chains
With the morning dew
The world would be like
Galway Bay
If you walk over rainbows
Like leprechauns
The world would be one big
Blarney Stone
That's nice.
Do it again.
If you could make chains
With the morning dew
The world would be like
Galway Bay
If you walk over rainbows
Like leprechauns
The world would be one big
Blarney Stone
How do you spell, "Aye, aye"?
You know, when you say,
"Aye, aye, genocide."
It's not a capital I,
and it's not E-Y-E.
"Aye, aye, captain", and that.
How do you spell
"aye, aye" in a ways?
A-Y-E?
- Oh yeah. That's it.
Did you know Joey Gallo?
I know him, yeah.
Um...
- Did you like him?
- Sure.
- Why? Why?
- He's a good guy.
Why do you say he
was a good guy?
He tried to help
everybody around here.
Were you surprised
at the killing this morning?
Sure.
Do you think
it was a gangland killing?
I don't know.
Do you think
that then anybody is going
to do anything
about the killing?
I don't know.
It's quiet
out here on President Street,
Joey Gallo's turf.
In fact, it's too quiet.
Joey Gallo was a hero out here.
Speculation has it that his
killing might start a gang war,
if it hasn't already begun.
John Johnson, ABC News,
New York.
...'partment.
Hello?
One of the most
fascinating and exotic stories
ever to come out
of Washington, D.C.
is the talk of
the capital today.
Five men were arrested
early Saturday
while trying to install
eavesdropping equipment
at the Democratic National
Committee.
And it turns out
that one of them has an office
in the headquarters of
the Committee
for the Re-election
of the President.
The central
mystery still remains.
What were those
men after at the Watergate?
Who sent them?
How were they paid?
What's making the Republicans
nervous
is it's beginning
to look as though
some members of the president's
re-election committee
may know the answers.
Lesley Stahl, CBS News,
Washington.
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine
Well, they said that you
Was high-class
That was just a lie
They said that you was
High-class
That was just a lie
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
And you ain't
No friend of mine
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
And you ain't
No friend of mine
What's happening
with Capitol Records
is really indicative
of what's happening
to our culture.
It's being taken over by people
who value profits
more than they do human life.
You know, I think it's a crime
to have millions of dollars'
worth of surplus wealth
when there are people
who have absolutely nothing.
The real heroes of this society
aren't the rock stars
but the revolutionaries.
That's... You know, that's about
the story at Capitol Records.
Starting from this day,
we're going to work to free
every political prisoner
and every oppressed person
in this country
and in the whole world.
That's all I have to say.
Eat your Frosted Flakes
They're great!
And don't be late for school.
Aw, Tony.
Please don't worry about me.
I am healthy
and well provided for.
Please let me know about John.
He or she is almost 4 now,
and I have no information
about birthday, sex,
growth and development,
et cetera.
I suppose now he or she
is old enough
to understand
where Daddy is,
and that I love him or her
immeasurably
despite our never meeting.
I calculate that T-Bird
is now in second grade,
unless she started early.
And I know she is doing well.
She is a grown-up lady now,
and I hope you have plans for
piano or ballet lessons soon.
Happy eighth birthday,
dear T-Bird,
and Merry Christmas.
His optimism
about the whole situation
amazes me.
I'm just very happy
that he can't see
this morning's newspaper.
This government
has almost no commitment
to the prisoners of war
except in a very incidental way.
They've renewed the bombing,
of course.
In fact, the war itself
is being escalated.
Gone, baggy knees
and wrinkly ankles.
Our L'eggs fit your legs
Any FBI agents here,
by the way?
They'd better be here
to protect this government.
Come on.
You're damn right
I'm a communist.
Any name they call me,
you know.
"Anarchist", good word.
There's no word they got,
you know.
"You don't take baths."
I haven't taken a bath
in six months.
Because we are the exact
opposite of what they are.
We're the exact opposite
of white, middle-class,
Christian, capitalist society.
We are its opposite.
They have created monsters
that are gonna overthrow them.
The United States today
told former Beatle John Lennon
to leave the country in 60 days,
or he will be deported.
Lennon was convicted
of marijuana possession
in Britain five years ago.
What did you say? You said
you felt it was shocking?
Well, yeah, we're a bit shocked,
you know.
Do you think
that you will be deported?
I've no idea. Maybe it's just
a process. I don't know.
You want to stay here?
- We'd love to stay here.
- Why?
Well, we love it.
And also our child is here,
and we're still trying
to find her.
And we were given
temporary custody in Texas.
On the grounds that...
On the grounds that the child
would stay in America.
And we also wish to stay
in America.
And we'd like to stay
preferably in New York.
Does that mean you're seeking
permanent citizenship?
- Yes, we are.
- Thank you, John.
It's a pleasure.
Good night and thank you.
I mean good day.
Okay, thank you.
You missed the bit where
the hard hat gave me the V sign.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Are your people
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Are your people
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Is your friend
Get the best
In New York City
You've met the people
On the streets
Walk in, America
Walk in, America
Walk in, walk in, walk in,
Walk in to...
One of
the film world's great figures,
Charlie Chaplin, arrived
in New York today
for his first visit
to the United States
in nearly 20 years.
Although most Americans
remember
Chaplin's comic genius,
relatively few recall
the controversy
that has kept him
away from this country
for close to two decades.
His sympathy
for the Soviet Union
and his jokes
about this country
were too much
for some bureaucrats.
The Justice Department
revoked his visa,
and he couldn't come back.
People forgot
that Chaplin poked fun
at all kinds of stupidity.
And his words
still have meaning today.
Soldiers, don't fight
for slavery. Fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter
of St. Luke it is written,
"The kingdom of God
is within man,
not one man
nor a group of men,
but in all men."
And you,
you the people have the power,
the power to create machines,
the power to create happiness.
You the people have the power
to make this life free
and beautiful.
Why do feel that Uncle Sam
is trying to force you
to leave this country,
which you now say you love?
There's a whisper campaign
going around against us.
"Don't you know
they're financing a revolution?"
"Don't you know
they're going down
to disrupt the Republican
convention?"
- Are you financing anything?
- Not at all.
I've never financed anything
that has anything
to do with violence.
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
it's a sad day in our country
when you go to Washington
and they say,
"Don't walk a hundred feet
away from your hotel.
Don't get in an elevator unless
you have someone with you."
It's not even safe in the shadow
of the White House,
or in Baltimore,
or any other large city
in the United States.
This morning
at a Wheaton, Maryland,
shopping center,
the hecklers were out in force.
They were quite young
and for the most part not mean,
although three oranges,
some pennies
and some paper airplanes
were hurled at the governor
as he spoke.
Now, Governor Wallace
has just been shot.
- What is your reaction?
- To that?
I could care less.
Disturbed.
I consider it most unfortunate.
Watching his rhetoric,
it's so heated and divisive,
I think that it was...
I feared several months ago that
something would happen to him.
- Morning.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
- Fine.
Miss Chisholm,
how did the governor look?
Of course,
he seems a little weak,
but I think his spirits
are high, his morale is high.
And it was a very,
very pleasant visit.
How soon
do you think there might be
a reconciliation
between Black Americans
and George Wallace?
Well, I...
Well, I don't know.
I don't know, I think, you know,
we just have to realize
that this country's going
through a very turbulent period.
The sooner all of us try to get
together and recognize
that there is enough room
in America
for every person regardless
of race, creed, or color,
the better it's going to be
for all of us.
If not, this constant malaise
that hangs over this country
is going to eventually
destroy all of us.
Okay, so we'd like
to invite everyone
to come on down to Miami,
August 20th,
to confront Nixswine
and the rest of the mass
murderers, Adolph Nixswine.
How many people
would you expect would join
your counter-convention
in Miami Beach?
Uh, crowds should reach
Woodstock's proportions.
Half a million, I would say.
Half a million easily.
Locked in freshness
Tupperware
Really locks it in
You can see
and buy Tupperware
at a Tupperware party.
I think it's shocking
if you're being deported,
and it's ironic that it would
happen in the same year
that Chaplin was given
an award after 20 years of...
20 years after
- a similar kind of nonsense.
- Mm-hm.
They think we're going to Miami,
whatever it is.
We've never said we're going.
We ain't going.
We're not going.
There'll be
no big jam with us and Dylan
because there's too
much going on.
We never said we were going,
and that's it.
President Nixon
comes to Miami Beach tonight
to accept his re-nomination.
Right at the moment, however,
there is a story outside,
and that's the story of
the demonstrators.
Temperature's rising
Fever is high
Can't see no future
Can't see no sky
My heart is so heavy
So is my head
They're revolutionaries,
that's what they are.
They're not listening.
I wish I was a baby
I wish I was dead
Cold turkey
You know it's got me
On the run
Body is aching
Goose-pimple bone
I can't see nobody
Leave me alone
Oh, I'll be a good boy
Please make me well
I promise you anything
Get me out
Of this hell, whoa
Cold turkey
You know it's got me
On the run
...accept your nomination for
president of the United States.
No! No! No! No! No!
No! No! No! No! No!
No, no, no!
Oh! No, no, no!
Oh! Oh, no, no, no
This is a group session
in primal therapy.
The idea is to go back,
uncover the hurts of childhood,
relive them,
and free the real you.
The dream that so many
people have
that, somehow, something out
there is going to transform us
and make life beautiful, whether
it's fame or riches or whatever.
And you find out...
People find out that there's
nothing in life
but you, you see?
That's all there is, you see?
And when you can feel,
that's all there is.
To feel life,
to feel the life you're living.
We might one day duplicate man,
his form, his actions
carefully engineered.
Your father left you
and your mother
at a very tender age,
and you were raised by an aunt.
I was raised by my auntie.
My father and my mother split
when I was about four.
I had... I spent some time
with Mother up to about four,
then my father split.
He was a merchant seaman,
you know, you can imagine,
and it was 1940s
in the war and all that.
And he left, and I was
brought up by an auntie.
And then when I was 16,
I re-established a relationship
with my mother.
She taught me music.
She first of all taught me
the banjo,
and from that
I progressed to guitar.
The first song I learned
was "Ain't That A Shame,"
an old rock hit, Fats Domino.
And then, unfortunately,
she was run over by an off-duty
policeman who was drunk.
But it was very hard for me
at that time,
and I really had a chip on
my shoulder.
And it still comes out
now and then, you know,
because it's
a strange life to lead.
Mother
You had me
I never had you
I wanted you
You didn't want me
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Father
You left me
I never left you
I needed you so bad
You didn't need me
Oh, no
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Children
Don't do
What I have done
I couldn't walk
And I tried to run
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
The doctor invited me to see the
conditions he was talking about.
So, unannounced and unexpected
by the school administration,
we toured Building Number Six.
There was one attendant
for perhaps 50 severely
and profoundly
retarded children.
Lying on the floor naked and
smeared with their own faeces
they were making
a pitiful sound,
a kind of mournful wail
that it's impossible
for me to forget.
There are 5,300 patients
at Willowbrook,
which is
the largest institution
for the mentally
retarded in the world,
sitting on the ward all day,
not going to school,
sharing the same toilet,
contracting the same diseases.
One hundred percent of patients
at Willowbrook contract
hepatitis.
There are so few attendants
that there is only
three minutes
per child for feeding.
How much time
would be needed
to do a job adequately?
The same amount of time
that your children
or my children
would want to have to
eat breakfast.
What's the consequence
of three minutes
per meal per child?
The consequence
is death from pneumonia.
Their life is just hours
and hours
of endless nothing to do,
no one to talk to.
Just an endless life of
misery and filth.
Why would you
do a concert for free?
Because it's important,
and these children are like
almost symbolic of all
the pain on earth.
And if we can help them
in any way,
well, it's a start, you know?
Where do you start?
David Peel,
the chorus at the beginning
joins in with that
tape of power,
if the tape works.
So they should be there
from the start, you know?
And then just wait in line.
That's all.
And the other side, the same.
All Willowbrook supervisors,
please move your group
over to the line,
in front of the area
where the first
will pull into the tie.
In a straight line...
I often say God's blessed them,
and that He
can use everything...
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah
Imagine there's
No countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday
You'll join us
And the world
Will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if we can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood
and sisterhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday
You'll join us
And the world
Will live as one
All those in favor, say "aye."
Aye!
All those opposed, "no."
No!
The noes have it.
Minority Report Number 8
is not adopted.
That was the report
to end discrimination
against homosexuals.
It was turned down.
Bob, are you still there?
Walter, we are still here,
and perhaps you didn't
see us at first
because Mr. Ginsberg has moved
into a meditating position
as we were awaiting the vote.
Mr. Ginsberg, the resolution
was just turned down.
How do you feel about that?
Maybe in four years,
the American public will likely
be ready to say "Ah"
and sigh a sigh of relief
and allow a similar platform
in the next presidentiad.
"Ah", accepting the defeat of
the homosexual minority blank.
"Ah",
for McGovern's peacefulness.
"Ah", let Nixon retire
from office quietly.
"Ah", let the war
in Vietnam be over.
"Ah", let America relax.
Okay, Walter, I don't know
what I could add to that.
Do you have a question
or something?
Say "ah."
Yes,
I was gonna say Bob Schieffer,
for your work
down there on the floor, "Ah".
Okay.
Walter Cronkite
said, "Ah."
- "Ah".
- "Ah".
That's so sharp
you can hardly focus.
I'm just trusting
it's all right.
Well, this is the fourth
and final day
of Jockanese's trip round
Maine, USA,
and may we say it's been
wonderful, extremely wonderful.
Well, here we are
in wonderful Cambridge.
This is the actual Harvard...
What am I doing?
Harvard building.
It's the Harvard
Divinity School.
Yes,
and as you can see, it's divine.
And over there
is Yoko trying to find out...
Talking
to some of the women.
...where the women's
meeting is.
Here we are, folks.
What happened to me was
that I was living as an artist
and had relative freedom
as a woman,
and was considered a bitch
in this society.
Since I met John,
I was upgraded into a witch,
and I was...
And I think that
that's very flattering.
Society suddenly treated me
as a woman
who belonged to a man
who is one of the most powerful
people in our generation.
And some of his closest friends
told me that probably I should
stay in the background,
I should shut up,
I should give up my work,
and that way I'll be happy.
Because the whole society
started to attack me,
the whole society wished
me dead,
I started to stutter.
I consider myself
a very eloquent woman,
and also an attractive woman.
And, suddenly, because I was
associated to John,
I was considered an ugly woman,
ugly Jap who took
your monument away from you.
That's when I realized
how hard it is for women.
If I can start to stutter,
being a strong woman,
it is a very hard road.
Age 39
Looking over
From my hotel window
Blue dots and red dots
Skating away in the park
I used to be there
20 years ago
Huffing over a mug of
Hot chocolate drink
Age 39
Looking over
From my hotel window
Wondering if one should
Jump off or go to sleep
People tell you
Up is better than down
But they never tell you
Which is up
And which is down
Age 39
Feeling pretty suicidal
The weight gets heavier
When you've bled 30 years
Show me your blood, John
And I'll show you mine
They say it's running
Even when we're asleep
No trace of resentment
No trace of regrets
One blood's thinner
But both look red and fresh
If I ever die
Please go to my daughter
And tell her
That she used to
Haunt me in my dreams
That's saying a lot
For a neurotic like me
Age 39
Looking over
From a hotel window
Trying to tackle away
With heart of clay
The weight gets lighter
When there's
Nowhere to turn
God's little dandruff
Floating in the air
Age 39
Looking over the world
Age 39
Floating over the world
Floating
Alone
And President Nixon is
well on the way
towards the predicted
landslide re-election.
At the present trend,
it would be a record landslide
for the
Republication president.
Well, in Washington,
President Nixon's number one
domestic affairs advisor
is John Ehrlichman,
and David Schoumacher is
with him now.
Howard, he feels too good.
I'm gonna ask him
whatever happened to Watergate?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Apparently nothing.
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Based on the results
I have seen today,
we have accomplished what was
thought to be the impossible.
We've not only won a majority
of the votes of America,
but we've won a majority of
the votes of young Americans.
Well, you can do a few long
shots as well, can't you?
Because we can always
cut out the...
Perfect.
All we are saying
Come on, it's your turn.
Give peace a chance
All we're saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Give peace a chance
All we're saying
No more war
No more four years
Give peace a chance
No more nothing
No more war
All we are saying
No more prison
Now or never
No more hell
We don't need it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give peace a chance
Now or never
Reggae, children
Hey
Give peace a chance
Oh, yeah
All we're sayin'
Yeah, give peace a chance
Yeah
Hey
We're sayin'
We're sayin'
Oh, babe, oh, baby
A chance, children
Let's give peace a chance
Can you hear me, God
Yeah. Whoo!
All we are sayin'...
Give
the children a chance.
Give the kids of Willowbrook
a chance.
Take them out of prison.
Give the kids a chance
In New York City
Give peace a chance
Come on, babe
It shouldn't happen here
Like it happens there
Let's not have no more
Give the kids a chance
All we are saying
How would you like
historically to be remembered?
John and I lived,
loved, and died.
John?
Uh,
just as two lovers, you know?
And we'd like to be sprinkled
all over the Atlantic...
...and the Pacific
or something.
Bits of dust in New York,
London, Paris, Tokyo.
- That would be nice.
- A friend of mine
once said that...
We checked it out
and we found out
that it was illegal.
To drop bits of your body
and cremate it?
Yes, you can't cremate a body.
Well, that's the final...
final up sign
to the establishment...
...is to sprinkle ourselves
over the White House
and everywhere,
on Buckingham Palace
and the emperor's temple.
So long ago
Was it in a dream?
Was it just a dream?
I know
Yes, I know
Seems so very real
Seems so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Through
The heat-whispered trees
I thought I could hear
Hear
Hear
We don't care
What flag you're wavin'
We don't even want
To know your name
We don't care
Where you're from
Or where you're going
All we know
Is that you came
You're making
All our decisions
We have just
One request of you
Then while you're thinking
Things over
Here's something you
Just better do
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Well, we were caught
With our hands in the air
Don't despair
Paranoia's everywhere
We can shake with love
When we're scared
So let's shout it aloud
Like a prayer
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Ladies and gentlemen,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono!
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Two, three, four
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
Qu pasa, New York?
Qu pasa, New York?
Whoo!
Good morning, folks.
Have you
had your breakfast yet?
K-double L-Y
I just want to open
the microphones to you
to say anything you want to
to New York City.
Well, uh, how you doing,
New York City?
It's a good old city, yes.
- It's a beautiful place.
- It's a beauty.
I just got to see
the Village for the first time,
and it's really a groove.
There was a nice guy singing
that the Pope smokes dope
and all those sort of songs
in Washington Square.
It was beautiful,
you know what I mean.
I really feel at home there.
Yes?
I'd like to ask
John a question.
Sure.
- John?
- Yeah?
I can't believe
I'm speaking to a myth.
- A myth?
- Yeah.
Myth World
or Myth Universe?
Can I speak
to Yoko, please?
- I'm here.
- Yoko?
- Yes.
- I thought
I'd tell you
that you're very beautiful.
Oh, that's very sweet of you.
I'm sure my husband loves that.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Recently I've been wondering
exactly how The Beatles
are as people.
Well, The Beatles
don't exist anymore.
I don't want to recreate
the past.
You know, I wanna be me now.
Right, well,
having you in New York, like,
- for the past week or so...
- Yeah.
...and listening to
you and Yoko on the radio...
- Yeah.
- ...it's really...
it's really hitting home that
you really are people,
you know.
I'm sitting here talking
with John and Yoko
on their bed.
This bed we inherited
from the previous owner
used to be a ch...
made out of church pews.
- Oh, I see.
- Isn't that fascinating?
So we're in a very holy bed
here, Howard,
and the three of us
are on the bed.
All dressed, of course.
We're very comfortable here,
especially like
having TV, you know,
- 24 hours a day or something.
- Suits me fine.
Suits me fine.
What are your
favorite programs?
I just like TV, you know.
To me it replaced the fireplace
when I was a child.
And if you want to know
what 20 million Americans
are talking about on
Saturday night,
it's what they saw
on Friday night on TV.
It's a window on the world.
Whatever it is, that's
that image of ourselves
that we're portraying.
Ain't nothing dead about us.
We ain't gonna die.
- 'Nough said.
- We are not dying here.
A very famous choral group
will now entertain us.
And if the music is square,
it's because I like it square.
President Nixon,
stop bombing human beings,
animals and vegetation.
You go to church on Sundays
and pray to Jesus Christ.
If Jesus Christ were
here tonight,
you would not dare
drop another bomb.
Bless the Berrigans
and bless Daniel Ellsberg.
Ma! He's making eyes at me
Ma! He's awfully nice to me
See... see, um,
Nixon will find anything
he needs to enhance his power.
The fact is, is there's got to
be polarization in the country.
There's gotta be po... Wait,
listen. I get two sentences out,
and you act like
you're going to the toilet,
you know. It's "Uh, uh, uh, uh."
Listen, why don't you shut up
and let me talk.
You invited me down here,
you said,
"You've gotta come here. We have
no music, we have no guests.
If you don't come,
we have no guests."
Now you ask me a question,
you keep quiet.
Maybe the punchline will
contain your answer, you know?
- So don't be so constipated.
- I'm just...
Don't be so constipated.
"I'm just, I'm just."
Just relax.
- I'm disappointed. You're so...
- I'm disappointed in you.
You're so incapable of
functioning...
I'm totally incapable.
I'm a misfit.
Haven't you realized?
I'm a misfit.
I don't fit into
this plastic TV show
with this plastic TV
personality.
I don't fit into that.
Colored and permanent press.
I'm sorry.
Well, I've been using
this Clorox 2 All Fabric Bleach.
Maybe it'll work...
Here I am at Dylan's garbage.
It's quite a while after
the garbage article came out,
so I really don't expect to
find anything.
Hmm.
"Progresso Italian peeled
tomatoes."
Ah, not bad. Not bad.
"Thomas's English muffins."
That's a big plug
for Thomas's English muffins.
Let's see what else is there.
Clorox!
Dylan uses Clorox.
Oh, The Daily News.
The Daily News.
That makes a lot of sense.
Judging from Dylan's
politics lately,
he's been reading
the Daily News.
Let's see what else is there.
Uh, a syringe.
A needle.
- 8071.
- Is Howard there, please?
This is his service.
Oh, look, could you
tell him John Lennon called?
L-E-N-N-O-N.
Uh-huh.
- L-E-N-N-O-N.
- O-N.
Are you a member
of The Beatles?
- That's right, yeah.
- Oh, you are?
- Yeah.
- Oh. Okay, then.
He has my number.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
The attack
is still going on here
at Attica State Prison.
We've all been gassed.
I've been gassed.
It's an awful scene.
William Kunstler has said
that people are dying in
there, and...
I agree with that. I think
people are dying in there.
And the scene is...
I'm gonna cut this off.
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
The queen...
I mean, the British press
actually called
Yoko ugly in the papers,
and I've never seen that
about any woman or man.
Even if a person is ugly,
you don't normally sort of say
it in the paper,
you know, "That ugly woman."
And she's not ugly.
And if she was,
you wouldn't be so mean.
They even say 'attractive' about
the most awful-looking people
just to be kind.
This is
a CBS News Special Report.
The President in China.
Here's a man
that I know very little about,
other than what I have read
in newspapers and magazines,
and what I have heard
on television.
And, quite honestly,
my feelings are quite negative.
But John wanted this young man
on the show.
- Who is it?
- It's Jerry Rubin.
Jerry Rubin, yeah.
What is the new Jerry Rubin
thinking about these days?
I'm glad you asked that.
Uh, we're gonna support
Nixon for president
because by going to China,
he's furthering
Communist revolutions
throughout the world.
I'm just kidding.
I'm really just kidding.
I'm really just kidding.
What he's really done is
automate the war in Vietnam
so that it's machines
killing people.
Created a situation
where 43 people
can be murdered at Attica.
Um, created a situation
where four kids
can be killed at Kent State
and people are afraid, scared.
You really believe
he created that situation?
The atmosphere in the country
is one of just death.
The repression is so heavy
that anybody who does anything
gets arrested, jailed, killed.
That people are, like,
very pessimistic.
Wherever you go right now,
there's tremendous pessimism.
You mean youth in general,
whether they're radical
or anything. Just youth
in general. We noticed that.
But how do we change that,
you know?
- Because...
- I'm really not
the political type,
but I want to say something.
My parents came over here
and got married in this country.
They came to escape oppression
in Eastern Europe.
I did manage, with scholarships,
to go to college
and medical school.
And I became a professor,
and I became Surgeon General,
and I can't think of
any other country
where this could happen.
And I've
done a lot of travelling.
Wait a minute!
But that doesn't make us
the Indians.
It's the Indians who were here
first and who got wiped out.
Ask the Blacks who were
brought here as slaves.
Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got juju eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair
Down to his knee
Got to be a joker
'Cause he's so hard to please
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He wear no shoeshine
He got walrus gumboot
He got honky finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say, '"I know you
You know me"
One thing I can tell you
Is you got to be free
Come together
Right now
Over you
Just for a change.
Shoot me
He roller-coaster
He got early warnin'
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say, "One and one
And one is three"
Got to be good lookin'
'Cause he's so hard to see
Come together
Right now
Stop the war
Shoot me
Shoot me
Come together
Come together
Come together, hey
Come together, hey
Come together
Journalist:
...a spontaneous
and unrehearsed news interview
with George Wallace,
former governor of Alabama,
questioned by CBS news
correspondent Martin Agronsky.
Governor,
you've repeatedly
objected to being
called a racist.
Yes, sir.
You don't regard
yourself as a racist?
No, sir, I don't
regard myself as a racist,
and I think the biggest racists
in the world
are those who call other
folks racist.
Open the gate
Put your right foot here
Just stand up straight
When you buy it clear
Walk in, America
I don't think you have
to even consider it art.
You can just consider it
what it is.
- It's communication.
- Communication. Right.
"Wash your bottom
with fresh water after
depositing night soil on earth."
"Don't spread merde
round your behind
with toilet tissue
torn from trees.
Arabs wash with left hand,
eat with right.
Indians use brass lota
to pour water down crack
and wash fingers clean.
Only US honkies smear faeces
'twixt their buttocks
with clean paper.
Nixon in underwear.
Kissinger, Goldwater in shorts.
Mrs. Roosevelt,
late in her bloomers.
Judges, senators and US Federal
Reserve bank presidents
most have smelly, moist behinds
unfit for love play...
...soiled underclothes
that stick and all make war.
Few can relax their sphincters
and sit easy.
Carry plastic cup to washroom
and clean your behind
like the mass of mankind."
Sculpture by Yoko Ono and Allen
Ginsberg, October 8th, 1971.
A new hat, or rather a bonnet,
was tossed into the Democratic
presidential race today,
that of Mrs. Shirley Chisholm,
the first Black woman
to serve in Congress.
How do you do?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
How are you? How are you?
How do you do?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
I'm Shirley Chisholm,
how are you?
I'm Shirley Chisholm.
How are you doing?
- God bless you, darling.
- Thank you.
- God bless you.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
How are you?
Fine, fine, thank you. Fine.
You have the courage
of your conviction,
which very few others have.
Thank you very much.
So the very best of luck
to you, my dear.
I appreciate it
deeply, thank you.
The hold-up man
remained inside the bank.
Then, bizarrely, the gunman,
John Wojtowicz,
asked that his homosexual lover
be brought to him.
The lover arrived from
a local psychiatric hospital,
but he refused to go inside.
...to teach the world...
World's smallest
electronic calculator by Sharp.
Price tag to match.
3, 45.
All right, give me some cover!
Duvalier is the lone medic
in the platoon. He's scared...
scared that someday
he's going to get killed
- picking up a wounded buddy.
- Get him back here
if you can.
Can you move him?
Stop the bleeding!
- Hello?
- Hello.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
This is like a dream,
seeing 15,000 people
in one place demanding
freedom for John Sinclair.
And it'll be...
And it'll be impossible
for the judges
to keep him
in jail for ten years
for smoking a flower.
This rally is gonna be the first
of prison rallies
all across this country
demanding that
they lay down the bars
and let all the prisoners out!
But there are...
There are a lot of problems.
There's a whole lot of slander
going on about Bob Dylan,
when Bob Dylan was the person
who formed our consciousness.
And Bob... It was Bob Dylan's
music and poetry
is the reason that
we're here, you know?
So we gotta go back
into this rally
and not only free John Sinclair,
but free the 200,000
Black people in jail.
Free all the people in jail.
Defeat Nixon.
Really end the Vietnam War
and the sick system
that poisons our stomachs
with this lousy food,
and build a revolutionary
movement.
Good night, Bernadine,
wherever you are.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono!
We came here to say
to all of you
that apathy isn't it,
and that we can do something.
Okay, so flower power didn't
work. So what?
We start again.
This song I wrote
for John Sinclair.
Okay, "John Sinclair,"
nice and easy now.
Sneaky.
One, two. One, two, three, four.
It ain't fair,
John Sinclair
In the stir
For breathin' air
Won't you care for
John Sinclair?
In the stir
For breathin' air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me
They gave him ten for two
What else can
Judge Columba do?
We gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Gotta, gotta,
Gotta set him free
- Hello?
- John:
- Yeah!
- John:
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
I don't know, man.
They just sort of told me to go.
Yippee!
Hey!
Hi. Good.
I know.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. Right.
It's beautiful. It was
a victory, man, just like that.
Yeah, right.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Because we can really
do it, see?
Our God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
Spaghetti is superb
topped with Rag.
Meat loaf, out of this world.
"Rockefeller
Pulled the trigger"
That is what
The people feel
Attica State, Attica State
We're all mates
With Attica State
I can't remember the last verse.
I've forgotten the rest.
Okay, shall we start?
Yeah, okay. So, John...
Hey, Yoko, take
your legs out of bed
so you don't look
like you're in bed.
The main thing that Yoko
and I are doing,
and Jerry, and all the people
we're involved with,
is to change the apathy
that all the youth have.
We must get them excited
about what we can do again,
and that's why we're gonna
go on the road,
speak to them, sing to them
and do anything to get
them alive again.
And that's our job,
and that will...
From America, it will spread
to the rest of the world.
Viva la revolucin.
Yes, they've looked down their
nose at you and me a long time.
They've called us rednecks,
the Republicans
and the Democrats.
Well, we're going to show
that there sure are
a lot of rednecks
in this country,
and when they get together...
You're gonna
Make it after all
Yoko had a child in America, and
her first husband was American.
After the divorce,
the relationship was all right
between us and Mr. Cox,
and we had Kyoko,
and then he had her,
and it was fine.
But one day, something happened
and we just didn't see her.
And Yoko hasn't seen her child
for two years.
For two years we've been chasing
him all over the world.
Snow, don't worry,
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, Kyoko
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Kyoko
Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't worry
Don't worry, don't
Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko, Kyoko, Kyoko
Kyoko
If Kyoko is watching, I'd like
you to know that I love you.
And if you miss me at all,
you could try to reach me.
AJ, AJ, AJ, AJ Weberman
AJ, AJ, AJ, AJ Weberman
Bob Dylan's not your enemy
He's just your friend
You are just a Dylanologist
One day, AJ went to
Bleecker and MacDougal Street
Looking through
Bob Dylan's garbage can
He found a letter that Dylan
Wrote to Johnny Cash
Another thing
For rock interpretation
Dylan said to Weberman
"Who the hell are you?
Why do you
Always bother me?'"
Excuse me, we're doing a survey,
so to speak,
on your reaction to the
president's speech last night.
What do you think about
the president?
I thought it was wonderful.
- You approve?
- Yes.
I am 100 percent behind him.
He should have done it
three years ago.
I didn't think he had
much choice.
I think it was a necessary
decision,
and he's got a lot of guts.
It's insane what's occurring.
Bombing of the dikes?
This war is being turned
into more than a criminal war.
It's being turned into more
of a genocide.
I think someone's going to have
to develop a new word.
I think it's terrible.
I think he's sick.
Instant karma's
Gonna get you
It's gonna knock you right
On the head
You better
Get yourself together
Pretty soon
You're gonna be dead
What in the world
You trying to do?
Laughing in
The face of love
And who on earth do you
Think you are?
A superstar?
Well, how right you are
Instant karma's
Gonna get you
It's gonna knock you right
Off your feet
You'd better get yourself
Together, darling
And join the human race
Why in the world
Are we here?
Surely not to live in
Pain and fear
Why on earth are you there?
Vote!
'Cause you're everywhere
Come and get your share
Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on
On and on
Yeah, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on and on
Yeah, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars
And the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
On and on and on and on
And on and on and on
You are going to die.
Your parents are going to die.
Your grandparents
may already be dead.
Every generation dies.
And I read an interesting
statement the other day
that war does not increase
death at all.
And I thought about it,
what a strange statement.
That war does not increase
death. Why?
Because death is total
in every generation.
Here is a generation of
young people.
I don't know how many people
are here at this moment,
but there's tens of thousands
of us here.
This whole generation of you
sitting before me right now
are going to die.
Peace now!
Peace now! Peace now!
Peace now!
Peace now! Peace now!
We need John
to help us rise up
like a hurricane,
to sweep this man Nixon and his
war-makers into the sea.
We need John.
Okay, we ain't used to speaking,
but we all know why we're here.
We're here to bring
the boys home.
But let's not forget
the machines.
Bring the machines home,
and then
we really get somewhere.
It's a washer and dryer.
A Delta Airlines jet
from Detroit to Miami
was taken over
by eight passengers
who demanded
one million dollars
and a one-way trip to Algeria,
what is believed to be
the largest ransom
in the history of
hijacks to date.
The agent selected to hand over
the cash to the hijackers
was dressed in just his
under shirt and bathing trunks.
Well,
that was quite some story,
but you had quite an experience
along with that, didn't you?
I had an experience.
The authorities down there
obstructed us at every turn.
At one point they tried to grab
my camera,
and, as a newsman,
I had to refuse.
That's a Department
of Public Safety officer
trying to wrestle the camera.
Sergeant Cleverly.
This officer is the one
that now has me on the ground
when, uh, we were going to air.
That foot belongs
to Jessica Savitch,
and always one to stand up
for freedom of the press.
She's giving you
a little help there.
Jessi did give me
a little help.
Ono's like Irish too, right?
O-apostrophe-no.
And now,
we'd like to do a little song...
We're showing all of you harm...
- Just once more this one, John.
- Yoko Ono.
- Once more. Just this line.
- Okay.
If you could make chains
With the morning dew
The world would be like
Galway Bay
If you walk over rainbows
Like leprechauns
The world would be one big
Blarney Stone
That's nice.
Do it again.
If you could make chains
With the morning dew
The world would be like
Galway Bay
If you walk over rainbows
Like leprechauns
The world would be one big
Blarney Stone
How do you spell, "Aye, aye"?
You know, when you say,
"Aye, aye, genocide."
It's not a capital I,
and it's not E-Y-E.
"Aye, aye, captain", and that.
How do you spell
"aye, aye" in a ways?
A-Y-E?
- Oh yeah. That's it.
Did you know Joey Gallo?
I know him, yeah.
Um...
- Did you like him?
- Sure.
- Why? Why?
- He's a good guy.
Why do you say he
was a good guy?
He tried to help
everybody around here.
Were you surprised
at the killing this morning?
Sure.
Do you think
it was a gangland killing?
I don't know.
Do you think
that then anybody is going
to do anything
about the killing?
I don't know.
It's quiet
out here on President Street,
Joey Gallo's turf.
In fact, it's too quiet.
Joey Gallo was a hero out here.
Speculation has it that his
killing might start a gang war,
if it hasn't already begun.
John Johnson, ABC News,
New York.
...'partment.
Hello?
One of the most
fascinating and exotic stories
ever to come out
of Washington, D.C.
is the talk of
the capital today.
Five men were arrested
early Saturday
while trying to install
eavesdropping equipment
at the Democratic National
Committee.
And it turns out
that one of them has an office
in the headquarters of
the Committee
for the Re-election
of the President.
The central
mystery still remains.
What were those
men after at the Watergate?
Who sent them?
How were they paid?
What's making the Republicans
nervous
is it's beginning
to look as though
some members of the president's
re-election committee
may know the answers.
Lesley Stahl, CBS News,
Washington.
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine
Well, they said that you
Was high-class
That was just a lie
They said that you was
High-class
That was just a lie
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
And you ain't
No friend of mine
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't never
Caught a rabbit
And you ain't
No friend of mine
What's happening
with Capitol Records
is really indicative
of what's happening
to our culture.
It's being taken over by people
who value profits
more than they do human life.
You know, I think it's a crime
to have millions of dollars'
worth of surplus wealth
when there are people
who have absolutely nothing.
The real heroes of this society
aren't the rock stars
but the revolutionaries.
That's... You know, that's about
the story at Capitol Records.
Starting from this day,
we're going to work to free
every political prisoner
and every oppressed person
in this country
and in the whole world.
That's all I have to say.
Eat your Frosted Flakes
They're great!
And don't be late for school.
Aw, Tony.
Please don't worry about me.
I am healthy
and well provided for.
Please let me know about John.
He or she is almost 4 now,
and I have no information
about birthday, sex,
growth and development,
et cetera.
I suppose now he or she
is old enough
to understand
where Daddy is,
and that I love him or her
immeasurably
despite our never meeting.
I calculate that T-Bird
is now in second grade,
unless she started early.
And I know she is doing well.
She is a grown-up lady now,
and I hope you have plans for
piano or ballet lessons soon.
Happy eighth birthday,
dear T-Bird,
and Merry Christmas.
His optimism
about the whole situation
amazes me.
I'm just very happy
that he can't see
this morning's newspaper.
This government
has almost no commitment
to the prisoners of war
except in a very incidental way.
They've renewed the bombing,
of course.
In fact, the war itself
is being escalated.
Gone, baggy knees
and wrinkly ankles.
Our L'eggs fit your legs
Any FBI agents here,
by the way?
They'd better be here
to protect this government.
Come on.
You're damn right
I'm a communist.
Any name they call me,
you know.
"Anarchist", good word.
There's no word they got,
you know.
"You don't take baths."
I haven't taken a bath
in six months.
Because we are the exact
opposite of what they are.
We're the exact opposite
of white, middle-class,
Christian, capitalist society.
We are its opposite.
They have created monsters
that are gonna overthrow them.
The United States today
told former Beatle John Lennon
to leave the country in 60 days,
or he will be deported.
Lennon was convicted
of marijuana possession
in Britain five years ago.
What did you say? You said
you felt it was shocking?
Well, yeah, we're a bit shocked,
you know.
Do you think
that you will be deported?
I've no idea. Maybe it's just
a process. I don't know.
You want to stay here?
- We'd love to stay here.
- Why?
Well, we love it.
And also our child is here,
and we're still trying
to find her.
And we were given
temporary custody in Texas.
On the grounds that...
On the grounds that the child
would stay in America.
And we also wish to stay
in America.
And we'd like to stay
preferably in New York.
Does that mean you're seeking
permanent citizenship?
- Yes, we are.
- Thank you, John.
It's a pleasure.
Good night and thank you.
I mean good day.
Okay, thank you.
You missed the bit where
the hard hat gave me the V sign.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Are your people
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Are your people
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
New York City
Is your friend
Get the best
In New York City
You've met the people
On the streets
Walk in, America
Walk in, America
Walk in, walk in, walk in,
Walk in to...
One of
the film world's great figures,
Charlie Chaplin, arrived
in New York today
for his first visit
to the United States
in nearly 20 years.
Although most Americans
remember
Chaplin's comic genius,
relatively few recall
the controversy
that has kept him
away from this country
for close to two decades.
His sympathy
for the Soviet Union
and his jokes
about this country
were too much
for some bureaucrats.
The Justice Department
revoked his visa,
and he couldn't come back.
People forgot
that Chaplin poked fun
at all kinds of stupidity.
And his words
still have meaning today.
Soldiers, don't fight
for slavery. Fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter
of St. Luke it is written,
"The kingdom of God
is within man,
not one man
nor a group of men,
but in all men."
And you,
you the people have the power,
the power to create machines,
the power to create happiness.
You the people have the power
to make this life free
and beautiful.
Why do feel that Uncle Sam
is trying to force you
to leave this country,
which you now say you love?
There's a whisper campaign
going around against us.
"Don't you know
they're financing a revolution?"
"Don't you know
they're going down
to disrupt the Republican
convention?"
- Are you financing anything?
- Not at all.
I've never financed anything
that has anything
to do with violence.
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
it's a sad day in our country
when you go to Washington
and they say,
"Don't walk a hundred feet
away from your hotel.
Don't get in an elevator unless
you have someone with you."
It's not even safe in the shadow
of the White House,
or in Baltimore,
or any other large city
in the United States.
This morning
at a Wheaton, Maryland,
shopping center,
the hecklers were out in force.
They were quite young
and for the most part not mean,
although three oranges,
some pennies
and some paper airplanes
were hurled at the governor
as he spoke.
Now, Governor Wallace
has just been shot.
- What is your reaction?
- To that?
I could care less.
Disturbed.
I consider it most unfortunate.
Watching his rhetoric,
it's so heated and divisive,
I think that it was...
I feared several months ago that
something would happen to him.
- Morning.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
- Fine.
Miss Chisholm,
how did the governor look?
Of course,
he seems a little weak,
but I think his spirits
are high, his morale is high.
And it was a very,
very pleasant visit.
How soon
do you think there might be
a reconciliation
between Black Americans
and George Wallace?
Well, I...
Well, I don't know.
I don't know, I think, you know,
we just have to realize
that this country's going
through a very turbulent period.
The sooner all of us try to get
together and recognize
that there is enough room
in America
for every person regardless
of race, creed, or color,
the better it's going to be
for all of us.
If not, this constant malaise
that hangs over this country
is going to eventually
destroy all of us.
Okay, so we'd like
to invite everyone
to come on down to Miami,
August 20th,
to confront Nixswine
and the rest of the mass
murderers, Adolph Nixswine.
How many people
would you expect would join
your counter-convention
in Miami Beach?
Uh, crowds should reach
Woodstock's proportions.
Half a million, I would say.
Half a million easily.
Locked in freshness
Tupperware
Really locks it in
You can see
and buy Tupperware
at a Tupperware party.
I think it's shocking
if you're being deported,
and it's ironic that it would
happen in the same year
that Chaplin was given
an award after 20 years of...
20 years after
- a similar kind of nonsense.
- Mm-hm.
They think we're going to Miami,
whatever it is.
We've never said we're going.
We ain't going.
We're not going.
There'll be
no big jam with us and Dylan
because there's too
much going on.
We never said we were going,
and that's it.
President Nixon
comes to Miami Beach tonight
to accept his re-nomination.
Right at the moment, however,
there is a story outside,
and that's the story of
the demonstrators.
Temperature's rising
Fever is high
Can't see no future
Can't see no sky
My heart is so heavy
So is my head
They're revolutionaries,
that's what they are.
They're not listening.
I wish I was a baby
I wish I was dead
Cold turkey
You know it's got me
On the run
Body is aching
Goose-pimple bone
I can't see nobody
Leave me alone
Oh, I'll be a good boy
Please make me well
I promise you anything
Get me out
Of this hell, whoa
Cold turkey
You know it's got me
On the run
...accept your nomination for
president of the United States.
No! No! No! No! No!
No! No! No! No! No!
No, no, no!
Oh! No, no, no!
Oh! Oh, no, no, no
This is a group session
in primal therapy.
The idea is to go back,
uncover the hurts of childhood,
relive them,
and free the real you.
The dream that so many
people have
that, somehow, something out
there is going to transform us
and make life beautiful, whether
it's fame or riches or whatever.
And you find out...
People find out that there's
nothing in life
but you, you see?
That's all there is, you see?
And when you can feel,
that's all there is.
To feel life,
to feel the life you're living.
We might one day duplicate man,
his form, his actions
carefully engineered.
Your father left you
and your mother
at a very tender age,
and you were raised by an aunt.
I was raised by my auntie.
My father and my mother split
when I was about four.
I had... I spent some time
with Mother up to about four,
then my father split.
He was a merchant seaman,
you know, you can imagine,
and it was 1940s
in the war and all that.
And he left, and I was
brought up by an auntie.
And then when I was 16,
I re-established a relationship
with my mother.
She taught me music.
She first of all taught me
the banjo,
and from that
I progressed to guitar.
The first song I learned
was "Ain't That A Shame,"
an old rock hit, Fats Domino.
And then, unfortunately,
she was run over by an off-duty
policeman who was drunk.
But it was very hard for me
at that time,
and I really had a chip on
my shoulder.
And it still comes out
now and then, you know,
because it's
a strange life to lead.
Mother
You had me
I never had you
I wanted you
You didn't want me
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Father
You left me
I never left you
I needed you so bad
You didn't need me
Oh, no
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Children
Don't do
What I have done
I couldn't walk
And I tried to run
So I
I just gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
Mama, don't go
Daddy, come home
The doctor invited me to see the
conditions he was talking about.
So, unannounced and unexpected
by the school administration,
we toured Building Number Six.
There was one attendant
for perhaps 50 severely
and profoundly
retarded children.
Lying on the floor naked and
smeared with their own faeces
they were making
a pitiful sound,
a kind of mournful wail
that it's impossible
for me to forget.
There are 5,300 patients
at Willowbrook,
which is
the largest institution
for the mentally
retarded in the world,
sitting on the ward all day,
not going to school,
sharing the same toilet,
contracting the same diseases.
One hundred percent of patients
at Willowbrook contract
hepatitis.
There are so few attendants
that there is only
three minutes
per child for feeding.
How much time
would be needed
to do a job adequately?
The same amount of time
that your children
or my children
would want to have to
eat breakfast.
What's the consequence
of three minutes
per meal per child?
The consequence
is death from pneumonia.
Their life is just hours
and hours
of endless nothing to do,
no one to talk to.
Just an endless life of
misery and filth.
Why would you
do a concert for free?
Because it's important,
and these children are like
almost symbolic of all
the pain on earth.
And if we can help them
in any way,
well, it's a start, you know?
Where do you start?
David Peel,
the chorus at the beginning
joins in with that
tape of power,
if the tape works.
So they should be there
from the start, you know?
And then just wait in line.
That's all.
And the other side, the same.
All Willowbrook supervisors,
please move your group
over to the line,
in front of the area
where the first
will pull into the tie.
In a straight line...
I often say God's blessed them,
and that He
can use everything...
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Ah
Imagine there's
No countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday
You'll join us
And the world
Will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if we can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood
and sisterhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday
You'll join us
And the world
Will live as one
All those in favor, say "aye."
Aye!
All those opposed, "no."
No!
The noes have it.
Minority Report Number 8
is not adopted.
That was the report
to end discrimination
against homosexuals.
It was turned down.
Bob, are you still there?
Walter, we are still here,
and perhaps you didn't
see us at first
because Mr. Ginsberg has moved
into a meditating position
as we were awaiting the vote.
Mr. Ginsberg, the resolution
was just turned down.
How do you feel about that?
Maybe in four years,
the American public will likely
be ready to say "Ah"
and sigh a sigh of relief
and allow a similar platform
in the next presidentiad.
"Ah", accepting the defeat of
the homosexual minority blank.
"Ah",
for McGovern's peacefulness.
"Ah", let Nixon retire
from office quietly.
"Ah", let the war
in Vietnam be over.
"Ah", let America relax.
Okay, Walter, I don't know
what I could add to that.
Do you have a question
or something?
Say "ah."
Yes,
I was gonna say Bob Schieffer,
for your work
down there on the floor, "Ah".
Okay.
Walter Cronkite
said, "Ah."
- "Ah".
- "Ah".
That's so sharp
you can hardly focus.
I'm just trusting
it's all right.
Well, this is the fourth
and final day
of Jockanese's trip round
Maine, USA,
and may we say it's been
wonderful, extremely wonderful.
Well, here we are
in wonderful Cambridge.
This is the actual Harvard...
What am I doing?
Harvard building.
It's the Harvard
Divinity School.
Yes,
and as you can see, it's divine.
And over there
is Yoko trying to find out...
Talking
to some of the women.
...where the women's
meeting is.
Here we are, folks.
What happened to me was
that I was living as an artist
and had relative freedom
as a woman,
and was considered a bitch
in this society.
Since I met John,
I was upgraded into a witch,
and I was...
And I think that
that's very flattering.
Society suddenly treated me
as a woman
who belonged to a man
who is one of the most powerful
people in our generation.
And some of his closest friends
told me that probably I should
stay in the background,
I should shut up,
I should give up my work,
and that way I'll be happy.
Because the whole society
started to attack me,
the whole society wished
me dead,
I started to stutter.
I consider myself
a very eloquent woman,
and also an attractive woman.
And, suddenly, because I was
associated to John,
I was considered an ugly woman,
ugly Jap who took
your monument away from you.
That's when I realized
how hard it is for women.
If I can start to stutter,
being a strong woman,
it is a very hard road.
Age 39
Looking over
From my hotel window
Blue dots and red dots
Skating away in the park
I used to be there
20 years ago
Huffing over a mug of
Hot chocolate drink
Age 39
Looking over
From my hotel window
Wondering if one should
Jump off or go to sleep
People tell you
Up is better than down
But they never tell you
Which is up
And which is down
Age 39
Feeling pretty suicidal
The weight gets heavier
When you've bled 30 years
Show me your blood, John
And I'll show you mine
They say it's running
Even when we're asleep
No trace of resentment
No trace of regrets
One blood's thinner
But both look red and fresh
If I ever die
Please go to my daughter
And tell her
That she used to
Haunt me in my dreams
That's saying a lot
For a neurotic like me
Age 39
Looking over
From a hotel window
Trying to tackle away
With heart of clay
The weight gets lighter
When there's
Nowhere to turn
God's little dandruff
Floating in the air
Age 39
Looking over the world
Age 39
Floating over the world
Floating
Alone
And President Nixon is
well on the way
towards the predicted
landslide re-election.
At the present trend,
it would be a record landslide
for the
Republication president.
Well, in Washington,
President Nixon's number one
domestic affairs advisor
is John Ehrlichman,
and David Schoumacher is
with him now.
Howard, he feels too good.
I'm gonna ask him
whatever happened to Watergate?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Apparently nothing.
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Based on the results
I have seen today,
we have accomplished what was
thought to be the impossible.
We've not only won a majority
of the votes of America,
but we've won a majority of
the votes of young Americans.
Well, you can do a few long
shots as well, can't you?
Because we can always
cut out the...
Perfect.
All we are saying
Come on, it's your turn.
Give peace a chance
All we're saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Give peace a chance
All we're saying
No more war
No more four years
Give peace a chance
No more nothing
No more war
All we are saying
No more prison
Now or never
No more hell
We don't need it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give peace a chance
Now or never
Reggae, children
Hey
Give peace a chance
Oh, yeah
All we're sayin'
Yeah, give peace a chance
Yeah
Hey
We're sayin'
We're sayin'
Oh, babe, oh, baby
A chance, children
Let's give peace a chance
Can you hear me, God
Yeah. Whoo!
All we are sayin'...
Give
the children a chance.
Give the kids of Willowbrook
a chance.
Take them out of prison.
Give the kids a chance
In New York City
Give peace a chance
Come on, babe
It shouldn't happen here
Like it happens there
Let's not have no more
Give the kids a chance
All we are saying
How would you like
historically to be remembered?
John and I lived,
loved, and died.
John?
Uh,
just as two lovers, you know?
And we'd like to be sprinkled
all over the Atlantic...
...and the Pacific
or something.
Bits of dust in New York,
London, Paris, Tokyo.
- That would be nice.
- A friend of mine
once said that...
We checked it out
and we found out
that it was illegal.
To drop bits of your body
and cremate it?
Yes, you can't cremate a body.
Well, that's the final...
final up sign
to the establishment...
...is to sprinkle ourselves
over the White House
and everywhere,
on Buckingham Palace
and the emperor's temple.
So long ago
Was it in a dream?
Was it just a dream?
I know
Yes, I know
Seems so very real
Seems so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Through
The heat-whispered trees
I thought I could hear
Hear
Hear
We don't care
What flag you're wavin'
We don't even want
To know your name
We don't care
Where you're from
Or where you're going
All we know
Is that you came
You're making
All our decisions
We have just
One request of you
Then while you're thinking
Things over
Here's something you
Just better do
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Well, we were caught
With our hands in the air
Don't despair
Paranoia's everywhere
We can shake with love
When we're scared
So let's shout it aloud
Like a prayer
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Free the people now
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it now