Maureen Cleave

Maureen Cleave
Born October 20, 1934
Nationality British

Maureen Cleave (born 1934) is an English journalist who worked for the London Evening Standard from the 1960s [1] conducting interviews with famous musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Over the next 40 years she continued as a distinguished interviewer of people in all walks of life, in the Standard, the Telegraph Magazine,[2] Saga magazine,[3] Intelligent Life[4] magazine and elsewhere.

In her Standard interview with Lennon on 4 March 1966, titled How does a Beatle live?,[5] she quoted him as saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now".[6]

According to the Bob Spitz biography of the Beatles, Lennon claimed a liaison with Cleave, inspiring the band's song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[7] Pete Shotton, a friend of Lennon's, also suggested Cleave,[7] though Cleave has said that in all her encounters with Lennon that he made "no pass" at her,[8] and Lennon claimed he could not remember whom the song was about.[9]

References

  1. http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/why-the-beatles-create-all-that-frenzy
  2. http://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_2184768-Telegraph-magazine-Jewel-cover-27-February-1999.html
  3. http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/dec/01/features.magazine77
  4. http://allearchiwum.pl/intelligent_life_the_economist_spring_2008-569203926.html
  5. Maureen Cleave "How does a Beatle live?", 47shoelane, 2015
  6. Maureen Cleave "The John Lennon I knew", Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2005
  7. 1 2 Bob Spitz (2006). The Beatles: The Biography. Back Bay Books. ISBN 9780316013314.
  8. Norman, Philip (2008). John Lennon: The Life. ISBN 978-0-385-66100-3.
  9. Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.

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