Very revealing and interesting! John Lennon wasn’t the best Beatle-—it was George Harrison.
The other Beatles were not amused with Lennon’s crazyness and problems he would take to work with him. Once, under the influence of drugs, he summoned the Bealtes to his home only to announce that he “was God”-—they were not amused.
I never saw George Harrison act like that. Paul McCartney could be obnoxious but not as crazy as John Lennon. Basically these people were the personification of too much drugs. It was truly amazing that they were able to do what they did despite their excessive drug use.
I had a commander in the Air Force who used to harp about Lennon and drugs all the time— “Yeah, Airman, you don’t want to end up like what’s his name Lennon”-—that’s right Colonel-—you don’t want to overdose on lead bullets!
Read for later. Very interesting. Thanks.
Based on the reported transcript, I’d only give the letter a 1 in 5 chance of being genuine. If Lennon didn’t send it, a good forger could have easily put it together from information Lennon gave in interviews, particularly his 1970 Rolling Stone interview. There are lots of uncharacteristic statements in the letter that make me doubt its authenticity, but can’t be totally certain. One thing that makes me wonder is that Lennon probably would have made a fuss about such a high profile forgery.
Actually, after reading the transcript several times now, I’m convinced it was a forgery. There are statements in it that the real Lennon never would have made. One giveaway: post-1973 info demonstrates “Can’t Buy Me Love”, although credited to Lennon-McCartney, was an almost 100% McCartney composition that Lennon never liked, and was actually jealous of - he almost certainly would not have referenced it in a letter as being a co-composition, and to make a point.