Cool find on YouTube, uploaded by user Chapter90: An aircheck of John Lennon, serving as a guest DJ on 93/KHJ's morning show. The music is cut down, so you hear mostly Lennon riffing on the air. Check it out:
Chapter90 fills us in on the backstory:
In the early 70's KHJ would do "Superstar Week", a different superstar would host the morning show every day during a week in October 1974 while morning host Charlie Van Dyke was on vacation. This is John Lennon on the air from 6AM-9AM playing songs,taking calls and doing a live read for Tower Records. We even hear John play Paul's latest hit single "JET" and comments that that he really wanted to play "Monkberry Moon Delight" instead. Did John Lennon actually have a favorite Paul song?? An interesting part is John talking on the air with a listener who requests a Beatles song that has never been released!
KHJ ("Boss Radio"), of course, was at one point a top 40 powerhouse in Los Angeles -- er, "Boss Angeles."
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