Posted on 12/05/2005 6:12:41 PM PST by ncountylee
JOHN Lennon was almost as famous for his biting wit as he was for his music.
The star who was shot dead in New York 25 years ago this week - on December 8, 1980 - pulled no punches in interviews.
Here DAVID EDWARDS looks at some of his acerbic comments on everything from religion to the Rolling Stones.
ON PAUL McCARTNEY
WE got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. Paul took over and supposedly led us. What's leading us when you wander around in circles?INthe studio, every time he sang the line 'Get back to where you once belonged' he'd look at Yoko. HEis an egomaniac.
ON ELVIS PRESLEY
"ELVIS really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him and the rest was a living death."
ON THE SIXTIES
"IF someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
ON RELIGION
"CHRISTIANITY will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that, I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
While Lennon was exceptionally talented, while with the Beatles, he certainly was no genius as his post-Beatles work (or more honestly dreck) rivaled McCartney's insipid post-Beatles work for bad songs. In fact I'd argue that McCartney's overall work with the Beatles was better than Lennon's. Too much maryjane probably dulled McCartney's artistic talents, and drugs plus Yoko Ono killed Lennon's. But that's just my opinion.
T'was said in jest.
Oh, yeah, I guess I did miss that part....
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