If you're going to talk about Lennon songs at least talk about the good ones.
Every time Christmas season comes around how the hell did this song become a standard. The DJs and program directors never bothered to read the lyrics?
Ha-ha, Mr. Wilson,
Ha-ha, Mr. Heath....
Answer: “Imagine no possessions.”
Question: What did Yoko Ono say to Julian Lennon and Cynthia Lennon when they asked Yoko why they were getting such a tiny portion of John Lennon’s inheritance?
Satan’s Minstrels suck.
I can’t even see how they play clubs anymore.
Like only two songs ever got any radio play and only for a week each.
Saw them live once and was disappointed.
One can imagine all the flowery crap in the song but when it comes to implement it all, you will ALWAYS end up with a tyrant on top because the power to re-distribute is the power to re-distribute to yourself and no human’s soul can survive that temptation.
He also wrote “revolution”, a smackdown to the Bill Ayers idiots of the world. He performed on “Taxman” too.
I recently read an interview where Lennon acknowledged that this song was simple minded nonsense and he came across as having some common sense. But treating artists as serious thinkers is a fool’s errand for the most part.
I read once that John and Yoko actually had two apartments at the Dakota...one to live in, and one to hold all their stuff. And according to Paul McCartney, when he and John would sit down to write a song, John would say, “Let’s write a swimming pool,” or whatever he wanted to buy at the time. Nothing wrong with this, of course, but then he shouldn’t have gone around telling other people they shouldn’t want possessions.
And I never could figure out why “no heaven” is better than “heaven.” Did John not want hope of seeing his loved ones again after death?
John Lennon was shot four times at arm's length. Yoko Ono, three feet away, was not harmed. Discuss.
I never understood why people thought this was a song about Utopia. If we all lived for the day, there was no heaven above, no hell below; therefore no consequence to our actions....the world would be constant mayhem and anarchy.
Thank you, Jan, for reminding us.
It is sobering to see how long we were asleep and let treason and sedition flourish, even as our entertainment.
(Although, I could not stand the Beatles, either before or after they became 60’s cool and infamous for their socialist and Marx loving tendencies.)
When you live for today, you have no hope for tomorrow.
My Daughter was given a song title in English class and told to write about it, she was given Imagine and wrote that it was about socialism and the refutation of religion. We were talking about it a family gathering and my liberal SIL went over the edge saying my daughter had it all wrong about the song. Funny thing my daughter got an “A” on the assignment, she was lucky the teacher wasn’t a liberal nutter!
We don’t have to imagine. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Chavez, and Castro all demonstrated what John Lennon’s laughably absurd song imagined.
Cynthia Lennon’s book John talks about how
she was dumped for Yoko,who treated
her and Julian rudely and swindled him
out an inhetitance etc
So i gotta post this again from
Natl Lampoon’s fictional Letters FROM
The Editors after John’s death.
Dear sirs—Imagine no possessions?
What a terrible,terrible thought.-—
Yoko Ono, New York City
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