Posted on 09/13/2008 6:19:39 PM PDT by wardaddy
John Lennon was a good rhythm guitar player. In my very humble opinion his genius was his rare ability to create beautiful melodies. Of course, music is a matter of personal taste. Hated his politics, respected his songwriting skills.
“Lennon described Imagine as “virtually the Communist Manifesto.””
Right... especially the “ooh OOOH ooh ooh ooh ooooooooooh” part.
Pervert.
Stow the sarcasm, stu. Wardaddy’s just doing whatt God wants him to do.
wants=wanted
Don’t do drugs kids.
As am I...and even you.
I guess none of us can really do anything else, huh?
Fantasizing about your mom is a little creepy...even if your mom would qualify as a MILF. For his sake, though, I hope she was. I hope she at least looked like Cynthia. I’d hate to think she looked like Yoko.
Yes, the Beatles were such a wholesum gang...
[looks at the picture in the article]
Eh. Better than Yoko, anyway.
I find his legagy of songs mediocre. None of them move me. I much prefer the real authentic American bands that were almost his contemporaries (Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Allman Brothers Band, etc.). With any musician, I listen to their music, not their politics.
A good live version of Morning Dew blows Lennon did out of the water, not even in the same league.
“anything Lennon did out of the water” that is.
Why Don’t We Do It in Blomfield Road?
He wasn’t really jam oriented. He had more in common with Tin Pan Alley pop composers.
Are you in Europe?
Because in the US it is still Saturday night.
Correct. He also said more men were on the golf course then at Church services on Sunday mornings. He was pointing out the hypocrisy of some Christians. As for his personal life, obviously a mess. His old man ran off when he was a boy, and his mother was killed by a hit and run when he was 15, if memory serves me correctly. Not excuses, just facts that probably provide some reasons as to his behavior, assuming any of those things are true. Some authors will say anything, anything, to sell a book. Pigs.
If this is true his legacy will be damaged goods similar to BJ Clinton. And for the people who stand outside liberal fundraisers and protest certain things it is wonderful, wonderful—(aka) “wunnerful, wunnerful.” Imagine, a whole new level of taunts to throw at them.
I’ve heard that he had some weird sort of “mother fixation” with Yoko Ono, actually called her “mother” all the time even though they were lovers. I always thought that was pretty creepy too, and at the time that Yoko helped to break up the Beatles she had some weird hold over Lennon that didn’t seem like anything in the “normal” range of romantic love (whatever that is). The rest of the band couldn’t stand her. A lot of people were creeped out by “John & Yoko” because they did not think it seemed like a healthy adult peer-to-peer relationship, but rather something that filled some desperate needy void in John Lennon’s psyche.
Oddly enough, Strawberry Fields, if memory serves me correctly, was a Salvation Army facility. How ironic.
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