Posted on 09/13/2008 6:19:39 PM PDT by wardaddy
I really don’t want to know this info.
If they're geniuses, and it only takes an hour to learn, why didn't they do it? Don't get me wrong, I love the Beatles, Stones, etc. but to call them genius is a bit delusional. Just my opinion, of course.
Not exactly news...
“Mother” lyrics from 1970
Mother, you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn’t want me
So i, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
Father, you left me, but I never left you
I needed you, you didn’t need me
So i, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
Children, dont do what I have done
I couldnt walk and I tried to run
So i, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
Mama dont go
Daddy come home
(repeat 9 more times)
There was no need to. If any pop composers were musical geniuses it was those two. Irving Berlin couldn’t read music either. He also couldn’t really play any instrument very well.
Mother... you had me.... But I never HAD yoooooouuu!
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
— John Lennon
“Good riddance John Lennon”
— BenLurkin
This is some really important stuff, thanks for sharing it with us this sunday morning.
For some reason this doesn’t surprise me at all.
Heck, if Keith Richards can snort the ashes of his father, why should this surprise anyone?
Strawberry fields forever......yeah right.
Not reading music and having no formal training makes him all the more a genius.
He was raised by his aunt and his mother was killed when he was 16 or so. His dad was out of the picture when he was very young. He had lots of emotional/psychological issues as a result. The craziness of his fame made his issues even worse.
Anybody that could have sex with Yoko Ono has got to have some issues. I’m not really surprised to hear this.
So this explains the line in “Mother”:
“Mother...you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, but you didn’t want me...”
Nothing else could explain his attraction to Yoko Ono.
John Lennon was the most overrated musician I can think of, with Meatloaf running a close second.
Your post isn’t even remotely humorous. Truth be told, it’s actually sicker then Lennon’s yearings (if true) for his mother.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. Although I strongly disagree with the late Mr. Lennon’s political views, many of his songs (particularly, in my opinion, 1963-1966)were absolutely brilliant.
Oh, I see. He wants the government to redistribute OTHER people's wealth. Not HIS. Typical leftist elitist attitude.
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