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Cher, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, and Andy Williams attending the 16th Annual Grammy Awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on March 2, 1974.

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Art by Andy Williams

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Lennonology Excerpts: Miscellaneous 1972-1975

A few last excerpts from Lennonology: A Scrapbook of Madness that didn't fit the themes of my last few posts (Miscellaneous posts covering 1968-1971 here). These excerpts cover 1972 to 1975 and, as before, range from the alarming to the amusing to the touching to the just downright weird!

July 1972: Radio host Mae Brussell recalls meeting John and Yoko in San Francisco, and being told by John about Arthur Janov's anti-miscegenation views 😬😬

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April 1973: Taking a brief detour from JY into the tragically never-realised George Harrison-Barbra Streisand album:

September 1973: John writes a very sweet review of his beloved Goon Show:

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November 1974, Los Angeles: I don't know if this food columnist was trying to be suggestive, but my mind went there anyway lol.

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John was staying with Roman Polanski in December 1973 in LA?? Was this after his weird outburst when freaking out in Lou Adler's house "It's all Polanski's fault!"?? Of course it could be a typical gossip columnist getting their wires crossed, he might not have been staying there at all.

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February 1974: Please update your mind palace to include the image of John playing golf with Alice Cooper, Harry Nilsson, Neil Diamond and Johnny Mathis:

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10 April 1974 (Not long after Paul's visit): Keith Moon moves into John's house, and (more) chaos predictably ensues. One thing about rock stars in the 70s: they loved taking amyl nitrate, and seemingly not always for that reason, but as a general upper (But hey, maybe the other reason was a not-unwelcome side effect):

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August 1974: Back in NYC and working on Walls and Bridges, a thankfully calmer John comments on the status of his relationship with Yoko and makes some interesting observations about how he often thrives under pressure:

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September 1974: Another angle on my favourite anecdote from May Pang's book - John and David Bowie queening out over Elizabeth Taylor :)

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October 1974: After a negative review of Walls and Bridges from critic Charles Shaar Murray, John pulls the ol' "why are you so obsessed with me? Are you, like gay or something??" retort. Oh John.

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October 1974: John goes to Club 82, known for its "fabulous transvestite shows" and lesbian bouncers. The Wiki page for Club 82 claims its clientele was "mostly heterosexual" but also lists Liberace, Tennessee Williams, Judy Garland and Elizabeth Taylor among the regulars 🧐

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Remember the addition of John playing golf to your mind palace? Augment it with John being interviewed during Monday Night Football in December 1974 (with guest appearances by Ronald Reagan and Jonathan Winters):

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March 1975: After meeting them at the Grammies (where John did that presentation with Paul Simon 💀), John writes to Andy Williams and Waylon Jennings, suggesting they cover his songs. Sadly (?) nothing seems to have come of this:

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Helen Frankenthaler, Head of the Meadow, 1967 in the home of Andy Williams

titled and dated ""Head of the Meadow" Summer 1967" on the stretcher acrylic on canvas 83 7/8 x 124 1/4 in. (213.3 x 315.5 cm)

In her new studio in the woods of Cape Cod during the summer of 1967, Helen Frankenthaler created Head of the Meadow, a work situated in the pantheon of paintings in which her stain technique crystallized into breathtaking vistas of pure color. Executed during a time when she was making some of her best paintings to date, Head of the Meadow is a superb example from the body of work she executed while splitting time between New York and Provincetown, which presaged the monumental paintings of land, sky, and water she would paint later in her career. Soon after its completion, Head of the Meadow became the first work by Frankenthaler that Andy Williams, the now legendary singer behind such classics as “Moon River,” added to his budding collection of modern and contemporary art, in which the painting remained for decades. (Phillips auctions)

Not particularly insightful Williams quote-

“I really fell in love with Color Field because I just like color” — Andy Williams

Andy had Kenneth Noland too, so maybe he's all right

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Maureen O’Hara joins Andy Williams for his St. Patrick’s Day Special in 1960.

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1974 - Ted Kennedy Jr., Andy Williams and Joan at the RFK Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament.

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The lovely and talented Andy Williams 🌹

He was an American singer who recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified! He hosted “The Andy Williams Show”, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971!

Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years!