Lewisohn vs. Peebles (Update/Correction)
I've been going back through my early work and found an issue with this post: in my original post, I incorrectly assumed that Lewisohn had made up the middle part of a quote. On re-examining the footnote, I found it was actually a FrankenQuote, with two sources cited in the footnote. It's still not an actual quote, but it's a lesser degree of academic dishonesty. The corrected version of the post follows:
Continuing my comparison of Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In against its sources, we come to Andy Peebles’ 1980 interview of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The interview, conducted on December 6, 1980, was aired on the BBC Radio 1.
Lewisohn quotes this interview three times, and two of them are properly done (endnotes P-14 and 5-38). The final citation from the Peebles interview is a FrankenQuote, combining a quote from Peebles with
though, because Lewisohn thought John Lennon should go into greater detail on…Elvis’s balls.
Peebles 1981 p.73-74 vs Tune In 25-18
Yellow piece from Peebles, pink piece from interview by Jean-François Vallée (1975). I still haven't found the Vallée interview, so we will have to take Lewisohn at his word for now. I'm not sure why Lewisohn decided to combine these two quotes rather than cutting the full quote from Peebles - I guess the final FrankenQuote is more colorful?
For my previous posts on Lewisohn's citation problems, click here. Even more Lewisohn fact-checking goodness @mythserene's blog.
Source: Peebles A. 1981. The Lennon Tapes: John Lennon and Yoko Ono In Conversation With Andy Peebles, 6 December 1980. London: BBC Publications. 95p.
