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Speaker 1: Blood on the Tracks is a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. John Lennon was a musical genius

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Speaker 1: and one of the most beloved cultural figures of the

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Speaker 1: twentieth century. His songs inspired dreamers to imagine, his search

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Speaker 1: for the truth gave power to the people. But some

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Speaker 1: thought he dreamed too much. Others thought he was too powerful,

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Speaker 1: so he was followed, he was threatened, he was declared

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Speaker 1: a danger to the United States, and in nine eighty

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Speaker 1: he was assassinated. This is his story told by his

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Speaker 1: so called friends. Business special agent Jim Steele with the

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Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investignation work in case number double oh

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Speaker 1: nine DASH zero eight DASH zero four nine one. Case

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Speaker 1: subject is Lennon, John Winston oh No. This information pertains

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Speaker 1: to a period in ex September. Interview subject as Moon

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Speaker 1: Keith John Interview number zero DA zero two zero six

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Speaker 1: one Nation nine one Spirit Confessional Recall number two December.

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Speaker 1: The actor Oliver Reed once said that I showed him

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Speaker 1: the way to insanity. I had the roadmap. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I didn't need a map. It was all in my head.

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Speaker 1: Some days it took us longer to get better than others,

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Speaker 1: but that was all part of the trip. When I

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Speaker 1: found myself in Los Angeles at the same time as

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Speaker 1: John Lennon, I found another crazy old soul in search

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Speaker 1: of insanity, self destruction, rebirth by root of oblivion. People

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Speaker 1: think they know I'm John Lennon, who he is, who

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Speaker 1: he was, who we can to used to be for

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Speaker 1: millions of people, But they don't know at all. No

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Speaker 1: But I think I got to know him better than

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Speaker 1: most because I was there at the time when he

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Speaker 1: just tore all down and tried to rebuild from scratch.

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Speaker 1: He was no longer a people. He was John Lennon.

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Speaker 1: And what the blood yell did that even mean? It

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Speaker 1: meant that you had to be fearless and reckless, and

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Speaker 1: the strange things you did would leave a lot of

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Speaker 1: blood on the tracks. H Chapter four, John Lennon and

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Speaker 1: Keith Moore. Life has always been a bit of a

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Speaker 1: blur for me. I do remember that certain things happen.

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Speaker 1: The crazier the better, naturally, but the order that things happen,

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Speaker 1: the chronology, good luck, mate. I can't remember did I

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Speaker 1: drive that brand new Lincoln Continental into the pool at

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Speaker 1: the holiday in in Flint, Michigan, before I chopped up

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Speaker 1: the hotel room in Saskatoon with a hatchet. I do

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Speaker 1: remember this one hotel room in Copenhagen. I believe it

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Speaker 1: was the one that came with a water bed. Mr Moon.

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Speaker 1: They said, all we have available is this sweet with

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Speaker 1: I had a few blokes try to carry the water

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Speaker 1: I took the monkey trunquilizer and without a commission for

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Speaker 1: John rented this beach house in Santa Monica used to

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Speaker 1: making with Harry Nielsen, Well, Rise Up, Get Yourself, Harry

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Speaker 1: is when I was going by Baron von Moon. Our

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Speaker 1: know what I did. I moved all my furniture out

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Speaker 1: be and become someone completely different. I was Baron von Moon,

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Speaker 1: all means. Keith pull up a chair and I said, no,

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Speaker 1: I really got to know John. John didn't necessarily need

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Speaker 1: that would be May May Pang, whom he referenced in

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Speaker 1: Nelson Schmilsen, a fellow pussycat who just couldn't let John

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Speaker 1: same pussycat who coincidentally just happened to own the London

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Speaker 1: flat that Keith Moon had died in. That particularly bad

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Speaker 1: influence would be a staple in John's life on both coasts.

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Speaker 1: It would even wreck his voice so bad that his

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Speaker 1: vocal cords bled very literally, leaving nothing but Blood on

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