Many music fans would be thrilled to meet John Lennon. After all, he was one of the creative minds behind The Beatles’ biggest albums, records that shaped the future of pop music. Yet Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters regrets his only meeting with John.
His path only crossed once with Lennon during the Beatle’s tragically short life, which came before Pink Floyd hit the big time. The pair were working respectively in Abbey Road on March 21st, 1967, when Pink Floyd gained access to the control room to hear Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, before anybody else in the world.
Although it was an experience they would never forget, Waters didn’t take full advantage of his only chance to meet Lennon. Speaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Waters shared:
“Piper at the Gates of Dawn, we were doing that in number three studio at Abbey Road, and The Beatles were doing Sgt. Peppers in number two, and I made records in number two later, we made stuff in there as well. I only met John Lennon once, to my huge regret, and that was in the control room number two, and he was a bit of a… He was quite snotty, so was I.”
Waters didn’t specify the details of why both he and Lennon were “snotty”,” but this does seem to align with their characters. They may not have become best friends, but Waters continues to admire The Beatles and once named Lennon as one of his all-time favourite songwriters alongside McCartney.
