Roy Trakin It was December 8, 1980, and I was sure I was going to meet John Lennon.I had just interviewed Jack Douglas, producer of John and Yoko’s comeback album, “Double Fantasy,” for Musician magazine.
The album had been released just three weeks earlier; a cover story called “Yoko Only” written by Peter Occhiogrosso, my editor at the Soho Weekly News, was on newsstands.
It could only be a matter of time before I’d be introduced to my favorite ex-Beatle — not as a fan, but as a member of the Downtown community that had embraced the pair since they’d moved to New York in 1971.
Obviously, that would never happen.Just three days earlier, Occhiogrosso had been invited to the Record Plant recording studio to meet Lennon, who had been.
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