The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono features an interview from 1980. During the interview, John was asked if felt that he influenced people’s actions too much. “No, because it’s the same bit about saying that The Beatles led the ’60s,” he replied. “It’s not true.”
He wasn’t a big fan of leadership. “The idea of leadership is a false god,” John said. “If you want to use The Beatles or John and Yoko or whoever, people are expecting them to do something for them. That’s not what’s going to happen. But they are the ones who didn’t understand any message that came before anyway.”
