Elliot Mintz remembers John Lennon and the 1970s! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Ande

Today's Guest: Elliot Mintz, longtime friend and confidante of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a former broadcast journalist turned media consultant to the stars.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Elliot Mintz by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of professional interviewers who would give their left, uh, pinky for an archive as diverse and substantial as Elliot Mintz’s… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I’m going to school today and you’re all invited to sit in on a master class with me.

Teaching a course on getting the “get” and not screwing it up once you have it will be my guest, master celebrity interviewer and media consultant Elliot Mintz.

It’s okay if you’re asking yourself, “Who is Elliot Mintz?” It just means you’re likely from a younger generation, one that didn’t come up in the post-Beatles pop culture of the 1970s.

ELLIOT MINTZ podcast excerpt: "I lived in Laurel Canyon and I received a phone call from my mother. She heard a news bulletin that there was a shooting outside of The Dakota. There were no other details. I dialed the phone number of the (lobby) where the doorman is. I said, 'Hi, this is Elliot. Just calling to make certain everything is okay.' And he hung up on me. I knew then that nothing was okay. I packed a quick bag, booked American Airlines flight 10 from LAX... About 15 minutes after takeoff, I saw a flight attendant emerge from the cockpit and she was in tears. I said, 'Are you okay?' She said, 'They just killed John Lennon.'"

You can LISTEN to this interview with ELLIOT MINTZ by clicking the audio player above!
Mintz, to the best of my recollection, first came to my attention for his close ties to John Lennon and Yoko Ono throughout the 1970s and for his continued presence as a media consultant for Yoko following John’s murder.

He first entered their sphere as a TV