Posted on 07/24/2021 8:53:30 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper
More recently, reports have surfaced in a soon to be released documentary that late in life, Lennon had grown ashamed of the political naivete of his early years and though unable to vote for him because of his British citizenship, had become a supporter of Ronald Reagan during his run for the presidency in 1980.
"John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter," Seaman told filmmaker Seth Swirsky. "He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me....I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist... He enjoyed really provoking my uncle... Maybe he was being provocative... but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism...He was a very different person back in 1979 and '80 than he'd been when he wrote 'Imagine.' By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete."
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We live in a country where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him, not ONE ______ BULLET! Explain that to me! - Dennis Leary
I still say John would be back to full-on lefty by now had he lived. Can’t see him opposing Oh-buh-maw.
Didnt care about Yoko shooter was as many,Nucken Futs
Paul is dead.
Well, don’t we all evolve in some ways? How many of you have the same opinions or world view/outlook that you had when you were 19 or 20 or 25? How many of you can see you were naive about various subjects in your past? I think all of us can identify with such a concept.
Who wasn’t naive in their younger days? Up until a few years ago I still trusted the REPUBLICAN party.
Well, Harrison may have written Taxman but undoubtedly Lennon agreed.
Carter obviously was on the other end of that argument.
The assassin was CIA trained in Laos!
If you listen to Lennon’s long form interview, I think with Rolling Stone in 1980 it’s pretty obvious he had moved from a radical hippie mindset to a family man mindset.
I heard it back in the day but have no idea if it’s even available now. It was several hours longs. Maybe 10-12 hours in all. I remember hearing it in hour long segments broadcast weekly about 1981.
I bury Paul
Still?
One of the things Lennon became involved in during his time in NYC was in starting a fund to provide body armor to NYPD cops. At the time the city was bankrupt and Koch was trying all sorts of tricks to provide lots of city services. Lennon led an effort to get vests for the rank and file cop.
I have the written interviews of Lennon by Rolling Stone. The book is called “Lennon Remembers.” Great interviews. Lennon was very candid as was his wont. And, yes, he had grown much more conservative since his druggie days.
Finally, according to a book titled All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon questioned the theory of evolution, mocking the notion that man descended from apes:
“I don’t believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren’t monkeys changing into men now?,” Lennon asked. “It’s absolute garbage. It’s absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.... I don’t buy it. I’ve got no basis for it and no theory to offer, I just don’t buy it. Something other than that. Something simpler. I don’t buy anything other than “It always was and ever shall be.”
If John Lennon had become a Reagan-loving, TV-evangelist watching, evolution-mocking 40-year old, it was certainly no crime.
But if Yoko knew it and kept it from us for the last 30 years, surely that would be a crime against the truth from a woman whose family motto was: “All I want is the truth. Just give me some truth”
I always knew that b!tch was evil to the bone!
Frank Gifford tells the story of Reagan and Lennon meeting one night on Monday Night Football. Reagan had his arms around Lennon’s shoulders, explaining the game to him. Lennon was like a little kid listening to his dad.
At the time of his death, Lennon was a heroin addict weighing in at something like 112 lbs.
loser/poser. George Harrison had more in his pinky finger.
talent in his pinky finger
John’s son Sean is very conservative today.
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