Imagine... No John Lennon

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[skeeter]

His last album, the one he did after mostly extracating his head fm rectal enfilade, was not bad.

I agree entirely the Plastic Ono stuff blew bigtime, though.

[Flycatcher]

IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS

LOL Just last weekend while in Mendocino (don't ask) I saw a VW van bumper sticker with that slogan on it. Mendocino is Hippy Central so I was surprised to see a sticker like that. His van also sported this bumper sticker:

"I Bet Jesus Would Use His Turn Signals"

My hunch is that he was a closet right-winger.

[BullDog108]

And U 2!!

[dfwgator]

As songwriters, he and Paul were better together than apart.

They were good filters of each others' crap, well except for some of the stuff on "The White Album".

[SECURE AMERICA]

Imagine... No John Lennon

Okay. Done.
Gee that was easy...

[Dr. Sivana]

His last album, the one he did after mostly extracating his head fm rectal enfilade, was not bad.

Perhaps you should say it was not half-bad (assuming you mean the album "Double Fantasy"). Every other track was a Yoko Ono ditty. The Starting Over single had Yoko's Kiss, Kiss, Kiss as a flip side. I punched it on the juke box to drive lingering older customers out of the Pizza Hut I worked at at closing time. (I used Barry Manilow for the teen punks) Some evangelist claimed that "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" played backwards is "Six, Six, Six" ... I don't doubt it.

[Grut]

There aren't all that many people whose deaths deserve to be celebrated and Lennon isn't one of them. Hitler, yes. George Joseph Smith, yes. But Lennon was at worst a man of his time and place - and a very talented musician.

[skeeter]

Yikes. I reckon YO’s song received no airplay...

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“They were good filters of each others’ crap, well except for some of the stuff on “The White Album”.”

By that point a songwriting credit of “Lennon & McCartney” was really more like “Lennon OR McCartney”. And you could usually figure out which one it was according to who sang lead.

[word_warrior_bob]

John Lennon thought Yoko Ono’s “performance art” and “music” was brilliant stuff, enough said.

[dfwgator]

The classic story was when Paul sang the first line of “It’s Getting Better All the Time”, immediately John threw in the line, “It can’t get no worse.”

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yeah, I gotta say that Lennon’s vision wasn’t mine. His death (not wishing it on anyone) wasn’t a national crisis. He was a self-indulgent pop singer, fer cryin’ out loud. I don’t care how much these idiots mask their vanity with ‘Save the World’ concerts or imaginations of socialist utopias. At the bottom of it all and in the end, he was only one more deluded twit like way too many in my g-g-generation.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I also remember reading that Paul insisted that “Honey Pie” be included on the White Album primarily because John hated it.

[LetMarch]

Knowing our accountability to God is one of the greatest benefits to mankind: “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.” (Proverbs 16:6)

[wtc911]

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

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I use to live around the corner from the Dakota, saw Lennon all the time. He was a frightened looking man.

As for the above lyric...he owned eleven apartments in the Dakota, all for his own use. Harlem and its real-world poverty was a mile away. He didn't share very much himself.

[Paul_B]

Thanks, I was unaware of that. I still have hope for him.

[Pravious]

“Let us disect the meaning of the lyrics of Imagine and let us examined what Lennon stood for. John Lennon as we know was no friend of ours.”

That’s your first mistake – taking the lyrics of ONE song, and holding them us as “what Lennon stood for.” Yes, John was a hard-core liberal. Given his background and occupation and the times he lived in, would you really have expected anything different?

Look, the man was shot to death in cold blood, for no reason, leaving a small son whom he obviously loved very much. What’s more, whatever your opinion of it might be (or mine for that matter), his music gave pleasure to millions, as would the music he would have made if he had lived.

[papasmurf]

Most of the world mourned the death of this man for his music but most of all for his views...

Ya' lost me, right there.

[rawcatslyentist]

Imagine... No John Lennon

It's easy, I don't even have to try.

[ViLaLuz]

Who wrote Helter Skelter?