Drunken John Lennon once threatened female partygoer with a knife: ‘I’ll show you violence

Jack Douglas, John Lennon’s producer and pal, is recalling the late musician’s unconventional party trick.

Douglas, 80, reflected on attending a gathering alongside Lennon and American social activist, Abbie Hoffman, in New York City in the early 1970s.

“They were talking in his apartment. ‘Off the pig.’ They were talking about violence, and he was getting drunker and drunker,” the producer shared while on Billy Corgan’s “The Magnificent Others” podcast on Nov. 27. “He made quite a scene at that party. He grabbed a knife in the kitchen and he went at this woman who had been yelling to ‘off the pigs,’ and he was like, ‘You want violence? I’ll show you violence!’”

And Lennon got his point across.

Douglas said the guitarist “scared the s–t out of” the woman.

The friends quickly left t