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Gimme Some Truth: When John Lennon Faced US Deportation
Udiscovermusic ^ | July 18, 2025 | Paul Sexton

Posted on 07/18/2025 3:02:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Mariner

And this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCtzkaL2t_Y&list=RD7nmxyYqNDp4&index=22


21 posted on 07/18/2025 4:25:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Seruzawa
He was Mr. World Peace, except for that wife beating thing.

Imagine if the bitch would just shut up...

22 posted on 07/18/2025 4:27:11 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks for the details.

With fine role models like them, how in the world did my generation go wrong so much? (age 79).


23 posted on 07/18/2025 4:28:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nickcarraway

In a book of articles about Paul McCartney there is a magazine writer’s satire on an alternate universe for the Beatles and their peers.
One scene is John Lennon stepping over a curb to get into his limo, over a handbill blown into the gutter that advertises a little known local performance artist booked for a show at a small venue.

Another “What was it Reverend Mick Jagger said at church in his sermon last Sunday? You can’t always get what you want.”


24 posted on 07/18/2025 4:34:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nickcarraway

“Considering the latter-day, beloved status that John Lennon enjoyed as a world citizen who promoted peace and harmony, it almost beggars belief“

LOL! Lennon was an Asshat of the first water. The deification of multi-millionaire Socialists is what “beggars belief”


25 posted on 07/18/2025 4:37:44 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: nickcarraway
it almost beggars belief that on July 18, 1974, the former Beatle was officially told (again) to get out of the United States. (snip)
. Although it now seems an absurd suggestion, President Richard Nixon actually believed at the time that they could damage his chances of re-election.

Ya… it seems especially absurd considering Nixon was re-elected in 1972, in an overwhelming landslide… two years before this happened. I seriously doubt that Nixon ever thought twice about John Lennon. The writers of this crap have more imagination than they have curiosity about timelines.

26 posted on 07/18/2025 4:39:40 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Seruzawa

He was the least among the 4 as far as I am concerned, although it’s clear he rated himself as #1.


27 posted on 07/18/2025 4:41:39 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: nickcarraway; All

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaiGABTj0aA


28 posted on 07/18/2025 4:43:48 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: cowboyusa

trustmebro.com ?


29 posted on 07/18/2025 4:45:14 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: frank ballenger

“Just for the sake of argument, we correctly say the murder (or rape or carjaking or subway knifing and beating) would never have take place if the illegal alien had not been allowed across the border into the US”

Nobody is “allowing” this, it has been forced upon America. To your point I understand what you are trying to convey.

In several countries (not the US, obviously) in any automobile collision the foreign visitor, tourist, visa holder, or whatever is always considered at fault for the accident, regardless of who was at fault, by virtue of the fact that if this non-citizen person was not in the country to begin with, then the collision could not have occurred in the first place.

I’ll not argue whether I agree with this reasoning, but they have a point. I think you’re simply saying deporting John Lennon would have been good for Mr. Lennon in the long run, as he would not have been murdered by the special project wind-up toy. I agree.


30 posted on 07/18/2025 4:46:13 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Mariner

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=john+lennon+stand+by+me&&mid=C2298495F04EFAE49D9AC2298495F04EFAE49D9A&mcid=182FF37A11B34228B242946D6B44C965&FORM=VAMGZC

and this.


31 posted on 07/18/2025 4:47:19 PM PDT by redrhino47 (# Jean Harlowe)
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To: nickcarraway
John Lennon and Yoko Ono "U.S.A. Surpasses All the Genocide Records!" poster
32 posted on 07/18/2025 4:49:27 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (If you see "Acheta" protein in a product, know that it has been adulterated with insect protein)
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To: tumblindice

The Reagan part is disputed, but he decently renounced all of his leftism. Sadly, he prefly embraced Xhristianity, but the seed did not take root.


33 posted on 07/18/2025 5:06:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: cowboyusa

The Reagan part is disputed, but he decently renounced all of his leftism.

Flawed human. God blessed him with musical talent.
I’ll enjoy the music, God knows what he’s doing.


34 posted on 07/18/2025 5:10:38 PM PDT by redrhino47 (# Jean Harlowe)
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To: redrhino47

A voice that could nearly bring tears to your eyes.

And he wrote some great songs too.


35 posted on 07/18/2025 5:18:07 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Julia


36 posted on 07/18/2025 5:24:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Mariner

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=john%20lennon%20ticket%20to%20ride&mmscn=stvo&mid=D1EF040B65018FDFC66DD1EF040B65018FDFC66D&ajaxhist=0

and this


37 posted on 07/18/2025 5:31:52 PM PDT by redrhino47 (# Jean Harlowe)
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To: Mariner
A voice that could nearly bring tears to your eyes. And he wrote some great songs too.

I agree that there was something magical about Lennon's voice. He and McCartney harmonized so well. The last verse of Hey Jude when Lennon joins McCartney right before everyone sings in the chorus was about the best 30 seconds of music The Beatles ever did IMO. Lennon wrote some outstanding songs (and some real junk, too).

As a human, Lennon left a lot to be desired a lot of the time. Not that unusual for artists. I doubt that Nixon's national security concerns about John Lennon had any merit, though.

38 posted on 07/18/2025 6:09:04 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.)
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To: Mariner

He was an arrogant jerk, IMO.


39 posted on 07/18/2025 6:43:10 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: irishjuggler
Yoko led a similar lifestyle, and is still among the living at 92, so who knows.

These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness. (Ecclesiastes 7:16, Douay-Rheims)

By the way, "Walls and Bridges" was NOT a great album. Except for the two hit singles, the rest sounds uninteresting and washed out.
40 posted on 07/18/2025 6:46:25 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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