his work, now collected in his book, rock scene, includes perhaps his most famous session with john lennon these shot? >> john had an apartment on east 52nd street. he was still separated from yoko at the time in '74. >> reporter: gruen became lien non's personal photographer after the former beatle moved to morning. >> i used to wear a new york city t-shirt like this all the time. i had given john a shirt a year earlier. we were up on the roof with the skyline behind us. i said do you still have that shirt i gave you last year? we had no idea at the time it was going to become such a well known picture. >> reporter: this image is in just about every shop in new york city. >> it gets around. reporter: the shot is usually reproducedded without gruen's permission. we found it at a souvenir standby the ferry to the statue of liberty. how do you feel when you see this? >> well, i wish i was getting a percentage of the sales but i feel complimented actually because these people can steal anything from anybody. they haven't paid for any of these pictures so i kind of take it as a compliment beca

how do you get a 1970 john lennon to sit down. now, that will be the interview after we are all gone that people will read. >> yeah. >> because lennon lays it bare. how did you get that interview? >> i had been writing him and going back and forth. the magazine became friends with him. we published a favorite picture of him and oko naked. i would go to london and try to see him. i think in these cases, all these cases, they saw what the magazine was and what it was doing. they liked it and approved of it. they wanted to be and wanted to be a part of it. they really meant to support the magazine and help us along. they saw it as part of their peace crusade. we get these stories because people respect what we do. they have seen our record. it's done with dignity and style and class. if you are photographed you are interviewed by top flight people. it is serious things. our record in terms of public affairs, national affairs through many, many years is so strong that we command the respect of politicians. >> were you shocked when joh

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and no gnashing nasty nationalism to get in the way of international unity sounded so nice when john lennon sang about it in imagine and so scary when it all if it were proclaimed that he would unite the entire world in one single reich that would then go on to live in peace for a thousand years yes that really was his sales pitch and most of the german people actually believed at least early on the romans used the same rationale as their empire spread across europe the middle east and northern africa two thousand years ago and the catholic church said that they could pull it off in the twelfth century and over the next few centuries conquered most of europe and much of the middle east when they fell the polian tried. tried on that rationale actually nice french derived work of a world of peace under his control and then of course the british thought they could pull it off of the used in the company the british navy as their main agents reaching from the americas to africa to australia new zealand and then of course the soviets and the americans both promised world peace if only everyone wo

. >>> john lennon's killer has been moved.david champ man was transferred for a different facility in buffalo. he was at attica for 31 years. corrections officials report saying why he was moved. he is eligible for parole again this august. >>> jury tblisi rigs are set to begin this morning in the john edwards trial. in close ring arguments thursday, prosecutors argued edwards knew that excusing campaign donations to try to hide his affair was against the law. but edwards' defense team asked the jury to see that what he did was a sin, not a felony. edwards faces up to 30 years from prison in convicted. >>> when the stock market opens later on this morning, the public will able to buy stock in facebook for the first time. shares of the social web site's initial public offering are set at $38. that puts the value of the company at $104 billion and is expected to raise $16 billion overall. but some economists are urging caution. facebook has never made a profit. >>> if you use verizon as your cell phone carrier, there is news abo

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there's a nice reverb, a john lennon sound of a voice. put that right in there.yeah, yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] >> you were right on. at least you did a nice catch. just for the -- right here. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i want you to look at this stuff -- this cup right there. >> jimmy: yeah. >> focus on that. all those -- all those videos, those texts, those e-mails. your whole life is there. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and mazel tov! [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, my god. what is going on? i did not see that. oh, hey, come on, teller. wait, how did you -- i can't even believe this. >> now, you know, jimmy, when i can't find my phone, i do what everyone else does. i have one of my friends call it. i got all my friends. we listen in for the ring tone. we triangulate. and you'd be amazed the unusual places that we find -- [ laughter ] -- my phone. >> jimmy: no, no, no. >> so, all of you people, you're our newest friends. if you would all listen for the ringtone. in fact, would you call him up? listen very carefully. listen for that. listen for the ringtone. when you hear it

. >> then they heard pet sounds, i guess it was john lennon who called you up and says, that's the bester heard. and then they made sar sergeant pepper. >> they sure did. >> there was a story about that. >> i took a couple recordings of pet sounds that haven't been released. and keep them introducing them to leno-- i played the album, played it again. and the first effect of hearing pet sounds on them was in the revolver album, here, there and everywhere. they kind of distilled the vibe of wouldn't it be nice into that song, you know, they loved it. >> but smile was to be the master piece. >> smile. >> yeah. >> it was a labor of love. >> not my favorite album, to tell you the trust. >> really. >> some reason summer nights and-- well, you know, whatever. >> it's a lifetime. >> right. >> yeah, tell me about the new album in terms that's why god made the radio. and what went into it. >> we originally got together last year and did do it again. which is kind of self-explanatory almost. it's a theme of what we are doing. like we have been opening our show, do it again. which brian and irote

including the bangles "walk like an egyptian" and the gap band's "you dropped a bomb on me" and john lennon's, and that was rage against the machine, something that we wore as a badge of pride. >> what was it that you -- that they found so inappropriate? >> i can't -- you don't have to -- you'd have to ask them. first of all, they denied the list existed and -- >> i tried when i was doing another series, and, of course, clear channel wouldn't talk. >> yep, yep. >> there's a lot more. they listed a lot more than you. >> that's correct. it was a lot. it was a hysterical list. but at first, they denied that the list existed. then we faxed them the list. and they were like, "oh, that list." you know, and i think that -- i mean, when the list is that broad, it's comedic. my opinion is, in the aftermath of 9/11, that is the time for deep reflection on, like, what is going on in the world, and what is america's place in the world, and let's hear a chorus of voices, you know, in sort of -- both in understanding and in mourning, and in, "let's get to the bottom of what's really happening here." that i

the man who shot former beetl beatle john lennon has been moved after spending 31 years at attica correctionaly, but he is being moved now. jon: boy does he look different. a slow-speed effort to get o.j. simpson out of prison is moving ahead in las vegas. a new lawyer for simpson claims o.j. deserves a new trial because his former lawyers did a bad job of defending him. he was convict ned 2008 of kidnapping and armed robbery. he maintains he simply was trying to recover personal items that were stolen from him after ace acquittal in the murders of his ex-wife nicole brown simpson and her friend ronald goldman. joining us now bob massey a fox news legal analyst. what do you think of the case? his new attorney is saying that his previous attorneys, yale galanter and gabriel grassey were simply bad. isn't yale galaner one of the best known attorneys are on the east coast. >> he's a good lawyer. they went to the supreme court on the appeal from the trial and of course a new trial was denied. so what you're procedure lee allowed to do is go back to the district court, get a new judge and file what

it's not john lennon.vladimir lenin. >> i-n, not o-n. >> he was only a pass killer who killed millions of his own people. >> no biggy. >> i see people on the street and they're like, you, you, you! i remember what your great uncle did in russia. >> he's in the tomb. >> i'm paying for the sins of no one. >> take a look at the homebuilders today. they're up about 1% across the board. guggenheim upgrading the sector and credit suisse says it likes the likes of port, lennar and toll. >> spanish homes down 70%. building, what, 400,000 homes? building what we used to build when our country was half as big. obviously our birthrate is down. so you don't have the big household formation, down 8% in the last three years. but it is refreshing to remember there are companies that have nothing to do with europe and nothing to do with derivatives. and those tend to be places to build. >> it's true. those that have something to do with europe, are not doing very well. goldman sachs down at the $100 mark this morning. >>

critic roots, is, the city paper in washington described you as the lennon and mccartney of journalism. would that make you paul or john? um, interesting. i think john. that's a good choice. are you surprised that-- i mean, it was an extraordinary story, tremendous impact, obviously, but 30 years on, it is absolutely what you are best known for and it's what people want to talk to you about. has it surprised you the staying power of that whole episode? not really. i think that its impact was so huge on the country that, understandably, people want to talk about it. it's an experience that seared the national consciousness. and it continues to reverberate, because these tapes of nixon's keep coming out that show that it was even worse than we thought at the time. so that obviously people want to talk about it. you know, it's kind of a mixed bag. you argue, and you've written forcefully about the need for journalism of substance. and yet, 30 years on, you get asked about deep throat on every one of these shows. if you were a young journalist today, is that a story you would chase? do you think there's any importance toda