In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and was granted access by the Walrus himself to do an interview about peace. Levitan, who was (and still is) a Beatle’s fanatic, used a reel-to-reel tape deck to record the interview, which he says lasted about 40 minutes. Thirty-eight years later, Levitan produced a film about the interview, using the original recording as a soundtrack. The end result is a truly amazing piece of work that you must see. Directed by Josh Raskin, with the pen work of James Braithwaite and digital illustrations by Alex Kurina, this video will not only make you nostalgic, but will astound you. The fact that the biggest name in music at the time met up with a teenager for an interview about peace is just astonishing. It makes you wonder how the world you have been different if Lennon was still in it. See how Jerry Levitan met the Walrus.

He didn’t stop the interview, I stopped it. I realised at one point that I couldn’t talk to him forever. That’s how kind he was and sensitive to the fact that I clearly was a kid who loved him and needed to talk to him. He accommodated me completely and generously and sweetly. And they didn’t throw me out after that.

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