Lennon: The Working-Class Hero Turns Red.  I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing “All Together Now.” I was also pleased when the movement in America took up “Give Peace a Chance,” because I had written it with that in mind really. I hoped that instead of singing “We Shall Overcome” from 1800 or something, they would have something contemporary. I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution now… Click here to read the extensive interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn that originally ran in The Red Mole, and is reprinted here in Ramparts (1971).
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Lennon: The Working-Class Hero Turns Red. 

I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing “All Together Now.” I was also pleased when the movement in America took up “Give Peace a Chance,” because I had written it with that in mind really. I hoped that instead of singing “We Shall Overcome” from 1800 or something, they would have something contemporary. I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution now…

Click here to read the extensive interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn that originally ran in The Red Mole, and is reprinted here in Ramparts (1971).