“I’ve got the call sheet, he was in at 7 and we were in at 4:30.

8, 1980, we came in about 4:30 ,” Nile said. But Lennon did, in fact, play on Nile’s strings. I’ll tell him when I see him.”Īs fate would have it, that meeting never happened. Love ya,’ but I decided that’s too corny. I was gonna put a note with the strings: ‘To John, thanks for the music. Do you have any guitar strings he could use?’ We just looked: ‘John Lennon needs guitar strings?!?’ So we go diving into our bags and pull out guitar strings. “It’s one of John’s engineers saying, ‘John is out of guitar strings. “Sunday night, the 7th of December, we’re in the studio recording and the phone rings at midnight,” Nile said. My co-producer, Thom Panunzio, knew John said, ‘Do you wanna meet John?’ I said, ‘Yeah, absolutely, but let’s wait a couple days.’ … This was Friday night, so I figured Tuesday we’ll see him.”ĭuring the interim, Lennon’s team actually called downstairs to ask Nile a favor. 5, 1980, I took my band in to make my second album for Arista Records,” Nile told WTOP. “I was in Studio A and John was in the mix room upstairs with Yoko working on a Yoko project. Now, WTOP is learning exclusive insights on that fateful night from singer/songwriter Willie Nile, who performs at Hamilton Live on April 8 and was at the recording studio with Lennon that night. ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next yearīeatles alum John Lennon, who taught us all to “Imagine,” had just returned home with his wife Yoko Ono when he was assassinated outside the Dakota Building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows.Willie Nile, music history maven, performs at Hamilton Live in DC.Business & Finance Click to expand menu.

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