Paul McCartney Reignites Decades Old Feud with Yoko Ono, Recalls Lennon Resentments

Yahoo news ^ | July 5, 2015 | Roger Friedman

[Michael.SF.]

The other big quote from the interview which will live on:

“When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John’s a martyr. A JFK. So what happened was, I started to get frustrated because people started to say, “Well, he was The Beatles.” And me, George and Ringo would go, “Er, hang on. It’s only a year ago we were all equal-ish.”

Yeah, John was the witty one, sure. John did a lot of great work, yeah. And post-Beatles he did more great work, but he also did a lot of not-great work. Now the fact that he’s now martyred has elevated him to a James Dean, and beyond. So whilst I didn’t mind that – I agreed with it – I understood that now there was going to be revisionism.”

[kjam22]

They sold a lot of records. Not my favorites by him, but they sold a lot.

[KevinB]

I assume you’re referring to Charles Manson and “Helter Skelter”. HS was 100% McCartney. Lennon had nothing to do with it other than playing on it.

[Patriot Babe]

Also he was coming around to like President Reagan too =)

[cva66snipe]

Ringo is the only who looks like it would be fun to hang out with. He is probably home thanking whatever God he believes in for the opportunity to ride that wave.

His brother in law is Joe Walsh LOL. Their wives are sisters.

[berdie]

Well, he or his handlers understand marketing. So he is a better business man.

I went to a McCartney concert several years ago. The guy rocked. Familiar tunes and sounded like he enjoyed playing to the audience.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I could have easily sided with McCartney back in the day, but lately he’s becoming just as shrill as Yoko was then. Yes, John has the martyr thing overshadowing Paul’s glory, and Yoko can be more annoying than a smoke alarm, but I wish I had his problems.

[Still Thinking]

I thought he publicly repudiated the lyrics to Tax Man and Revolution, essentially stating the capitalist principle that you had to produce the product people want to buy, but that he didn’t actually hold those beliefs.

[berdie]

And Fagan has a dinosaur named after him. ;)

[SeaHawkFan]

Yokohama Ono screwed up the Beatles and is one of the ugliest women of all time.

[mplsconservative]

Yep. He was a better guy than we knew back then.

[a fool in paradise]

Fibber’s Tune (1948 episode of a radio comedy)

Fibber McGee hears “I’m Looking Over A Four-Leaf-Clover” on a jukebox and thinks the time is right to revive one of his own old 30+ year old songs.

https://archive.org/download/FibberMcGeeandMolly1948/480601_McGees_Tune.mp3

[berdie]

I didn’t know that!!!

I like Walsh (the musician) but wouldn’t hang out with him.

[glabbe]

I saw Lennon and Yoko at a free John Sinclair concert in Ann Arbor in the early seventies. The act was John and the band playing while Yoko made noises close to what I would describe as yodeling. People were so impressed saying “oh I just saw John Lennon”. I couldn’t believe the train wreck I had just sat through. The concert lasted until 3:00 or 4:00 AM. The only decent group was a special guest appearance by Stevie Wonder.

[kjam22]

Yeah... I saw him a few years back too. And bought concert dvd. Was pretty much awesome... in my opinion.

[4yearlurker]

I think George Harrison wrote “Tax Man.”

[mplsconservative]

That made me like him a lot. Reagan was the first time I could vote in a presidential election. Proud first vote! I loved that guy! Wish we had another like him.

[Still Thinking]

Well, I wasn’t talking about who wrote any particular song, but whether Lennon would own them or repudiate them. (And actually, I think the episode I referred to may have only been with reference to Revolution)

[Kozy]

He doesn’t have a leg to stand on

[a fool in paradise]

“John wrote words capable of inspiring a serial killer to raise an army of serial killer disciples.”

>> Wasn’t John a Communist? What side of the aisle do we find most, if not all, mass murderers on? The Left, of course!

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Charles Manson breaks silence to warn of global warming
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Apr 19, 2011 | Fiona Govan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2707213/posts?page=51

Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.

...Refusing to discuss whether he still posed a danger to society ahead of a parole review scheduled for next year, he instead warned of a “greater danger” – that of global warming.

“Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere,” he said.

“The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won’t have air to breathe.

“If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem ...” he added,...

[Nevadan]

re: But McCartney says he really resented her after Lennon died because she kept saying that “John was everything” in the Beatles. He says: “But then strange things would happen. Like Yoko would appear in the press, and I’d read it, and it said [comedy Yoko accent], “Paul did nothing! All he did was book the studio…”

I am sympathetic with Paul on this one. The Beatles were an amazing band as long as they were together. Not so great apart. But who was Yoko but the crazy, weird, talentless, controlling wife of one of the band members, who has managed to ride and milk the band's success all these years after her husband was killed. If John had lived I imagine that at some point they would have divorced. But what a gravy train she has and continues to enjoy.