Rare Beatles memorabilia, John Lennon interviews uncovered during pandemic cleaning spree

More than an hour of interview material with famed Beatles singer, songwriter and musician John Lennon has surfaced. The old reels were discovered in a garage in Los Angeles.

John Lennon laughing, admitting to being “prejudiced” because he likes his Beatles songs the best and musing about whether he’ll be bald in 1984.

Three fascinating audio interviews, most of which have never been heard before, have people buzzing.

“Just reading the transcripts before we actually heard them was fascinating in itself,” said Paul Fairweather of Omega Auctions.

The company, which specializes in music memorabilia and vinyl records, will be auctioning off the recordings on Sept. 28.

“When we actually heard them, it was amazing to hear John speaking because they’re such clear audio recordings that it feels that he’s actually sat in the room with you,” Fairweather said.

The interviews from 1969 and in the early 1970s were done by the late Ken Zeilig, a journalist originally from Winnipeg.

“We always knew from him that he’d hung out with John Lennon and that he’d interviewed John Lennon. But we never heard the interview. He didn’t mention he’d spent time with Yoko Ono as well, which he clearly had,” said the journalist’s daughter Hannah Zeilig.

In an interview with Global News, Hannah Zeilig described how her love for the Beatles was reignited as she sat in her home in the U.K. transcribing a portion of her father’s work.