Introduction to the interview by Jody Denberg in 2000

Like most John & Yoko fans, my dream was to someday talk to Yoko one-on-one and ask all the questions I had in my mind seemingly forever. My first opportunity to do so was via the telephone in 1984. After numerous phone calls to her representative Elliot Mintz, as well as sending her a radio tribute to her I had produced and a package of clippings of writings I had done on J&Y (including a nationally published review of Milk And Honey in Rolling Stone's now defunct Record magazine), my "phoner" was set.

The project that John had envisioned as Yoko's 50th birthday present - a tribute album of other artists covering Yoko's material - had just been released almost four years his death: Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him. Yoko's companion Sam Havadtoy actually answered the phone when I called (it was late in the evening, nine or so) and in his Hungarian accent expressed excitedly his pleasure that the first single from the tribute disc, Eddie Money's version of I'm Moving On, was being added to radio playlists across the country, including the station I worked at at the time, KLBJ-FM in Austin, Texas. One of the sweetest moments of the conversation was when a then 8-year-old Sean Lennon got on one of the telephone extensions and blurted out "Hi Jody and thanks for playing the album!" I tried to ask him a question quickly but it was too late. He'd hung up immediately after his quick plug. Oh well...the chat was a dream come true, and turned out to be the first of many.