yup... the only thing making it worth reading was that it woke that dumbass up at night sweating till he died.
Posted on 10/11/2005 12:51:13 PM PDT by lainie
On the day after John Lennon's 65th birthday, it was a chance to remember old times and maybe even repair some damaged relationships.
But Yoko Ono had other things in mind.
While accepting a special award on behalf of her late husband, she gleefully renewed her long-running feud with Sir Paul McCartney.
Yoko, 72, suggested that Lennon was a far better singer than his fellow Beatle, and went on to pour scorn on McCartney's lyrics.
There were gasps of astonishment at yesterday's Q Magazine Awards in London as she took to the stage and went on the attack.
'I'll tell you a story about John,' she told the audience. 'He often used to wake up in the middle of the night and ask me, "Why do people cover Paul's songs so much, but never mine?"
'I used to tell him, "It's because you are a talented songwriter. You don't just rhyme June with spoon. And you are a very good singer - lots of people would be too afraid to cover one of your songs.
'Then I would make him a cup of tea, and he would be okay. I just miss that sort of moment that we had.'
Her stinging criticism of Lennon's former bandmate and songwriting partner stunned the room filled with stars including Jimmy Page, Ray Davies, Paul Weller, Robin Gibb, Liam and Noel Gallagher and Coldplay.
Although McCartney's lyrics have often been seen as more simplistic than Lennon's, he never actually rhymed June with spoon.
But he came pretty close. In the song She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, which featured in a medley on the Abbey Road album, Sir Paul did rhyme 'spoon' with 'lagoon'.
The first verse goes: 'She came in through the bathroom window/ Protected by a silver spoon/But now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of her own lagoon.'
Yoko's comments perpetuate a row with McCartney which has been raging since she started dating Lennon in the late 1960s.
In the last few years she has threatened to sue him when he changed the famous Lennon/ McCartney writing credit around and in December banned him from using Yesterday on a solo album of love songs because it was a Beatles number, forcing him to scrap the project.
This is also the second year in succession that the Q Awards have caused controversy. Last year Elton John criticised Madonna for miming during her live shows and the dispute gathered such momentum that he was forced to apologise publicly.
And even before Yoko took to the stage there had been another example of bad blood between the musicians gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, took his revenge on Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher for recent disparaging comments about Martin's wife Gwyneth Paltrow.
As he collected the award for Best Act in the World Today Martin made a point of raising the height of the microphone, saying: 'Sorry, Liam's a lot shorter than me.'
Oasis won two trophies, the People's Choice award and the album award for Don't Believe the Truth, at the event hosted by Jonathan Ross.
Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was named Q Icon and the Bee Gees were also honoured for their past work with a Lifetime Achievement award, while former soldier James Blunt won the award for Best Newcomer and U2 won Best Live Act.
Man, that's cold. Probably true though.
RE: Yoko, 72, suggested that Lennon was a far better singer than his fellow Beatle,
Depends on how you define singing: "Screeeeeeeeeech. Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeech."
Sick and yuck. What bitterness. They were both excellent in their own way (and they both had George Martin). As for me I would rather listen to Brian Wilson arrangements than either of them but I digress...
admiral halsey notified me
he had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea
i had another look & i had a cup of tea
and a butter pie
the butter wouldn't melt so i put it in the pie
Uh...whoa...
LOL!
Did you see Cynthia Lennon on the news the other day? She has maintained her dignity and her looks.
yup... the only thing making it worth reading was that it woke that dumbass up at night sweating till he died.
ROFL!
Are you suggesting Yoko's singing sound like a couple of tomcats having a discussion in the middle of the night?
Have you ever listened to their pre-disco music? Music doesn't get much better than that.
"oko needs to be reminded that Linda McCartney on her worst day sang AND looked better than the b*tch Ono-it's-Yoko ever did."
I wouldn't be so sure of that. There's a recording floating around the net for years now where one of the sound guys isolates Linda's voice on "Hey Jude".. It's hilarious. My dog can sing better. The story goes, her singing was so bad that they would turn her mics down when on tour and not tell her.
I don't know how true that last part is but I've heard the recording and trust me, it's BAD.
They're all a bunch of drug addicts!
Who cares about those communists anyway. If Lennon were alive today, he'd probably be running his red mouth about the evil U.S. and I would be hoping that somebody would just shoot him.
The video is totally dismal, He ceremoniously strips off his clothes and jumps off a cliff at the end of the song. Bleh... http://www.virgin.net/music/musicvideos/jamesblunt_yourebeautiful_hi.html
Linda did not sing on Hey Jude
I had a friend who SWORE that the lyric you quoted actually said,"he had to have a piece or he couldn't get to sleep".
He also said that Band on the Run was really a song about the SLA!
Lennon's later interviews seemed to suggest he was turning away from being such a lefty. And you also must have never read the words to "Revolution".
I wish I had these peoples problems. What a bunch of winers!
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