“These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists — it’s like idol worship,” John Lennon said in his final interview with Rolling Stone. “They only like people when they’re on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again.
“What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I’m not interested in being a dead (expletive) hero. .. So forget ’em, forget ’em.”
