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John Lennon's producer and friend Jack Douglas said he once pulled out a knife at a party

Douglas said his intention was to quiet a woman who was yelling political slogans

Lennon was in the studio with Douglas in New York on the day he died

John Lennon ’s producer and friend Jack Douglas is opening up about the time the late musician used rather unconventional means to quiet down a party.

Douglas, 80, appeared on Billy Corgan ’s The Magnificent Others podcast last week, and reflected on the time that he and Lennon attended a party in New York City in the early 1970s with Abbie Hoffman and other counterculture activists.

“They were talking in his apartment. ‘Off the pig.’ They were talking about violence, and he was getting drunker and drunker,” Douglas recalled.

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