Yep. John Lennon was a Red Dupe pushing Communism.
And he plotted to dope Nixon’s coffee.
And then he wondered why he was being investigated by the FBI and being denied stay in the USA.
I haven’t seen the recent documentary on his legal hassles but he deserved them and was an agitator who meant harm to our government figures. BY HIS OWN ADMISSION.
I had read here, on Free Republic, part of a Rolling Stone interview that John Lennon gave around the time of his Double Fantasy album that he’d become disillusioned with things like “benefit concerts.”
He remarked that they were mismanaged affairs by the organizers and people frequently used the occasion to press the artists for all sorts of freebies: the concert, concert album, appearances on behalf of the organizers...all sorts of stuff.
He saw the money flow in to the organizers, the concert itself often a mess, and very little flow back out to whom the concerts were for—and he and other artists donating their time and effort just for the (unneeded) publicity.
He probably still “believed.” But I think he understood that there _had_ to be a better way.