Video: 'October 13 1976 Copocabana Club, NY John Lennon interviewed by Ugly George'

(Wednesday, October 13, 1976, late evening EDT) — Former Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, were interviewed tonight in New York by George Urban, better known as “Ugly George,” a Manhattan Cable television host whose provocative program, The Ugly George Hour of Truth, Sex and Violence, had become a local hit.

Urban caught up with the couple at the reopening of the famed Copacabana nightclub at 10 East 60th Street, where an opening-night party hosted by Andy Warhol also drew Mick and Bianca Jagger, Ethel Merman and Sylvia Miles.

Urban filmed a brief interview in which Lennon discussed sex in music and on television.

Lennon and Ono arrived at the Copacabana after attending the 8 p.m. performance of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf at the Booth Theatre at 222 West 45th Street, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.