Posted on 06/30/2011 10:32:27 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
He loved Ron, yeah yeah yeah… That’s right – peace and love uber hippie John Lennon was a closeted Reagan Republican at the time of his death, according to the Beatle’s last personal assistant. Fred Seaman, who worked for Lennon from 1979 until he was gunned down in the street outside his apartment in 1980, said the singer admired Reagan, who was running for president against Jimmy Carter at the time. “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 says in a new Beatles documentary. “He’d met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event.” “I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who’s an old-time communist,” Seaman said. “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,’ Seaman said. “By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”
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~ John Lennon, 1979
Well sorry
Some people need to lighten up. Then pull the damn thread but don’t insult me about it.
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In your defense you did cite a source different from the six other postings.
“if you’re 20 and not a liberal you have no heart. if you’re 40 and not conservative you have no brain”
If it is a different source, then it deserves a different thread. Tell the posting police to take a hike.
Wow. Really?
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Reminds me of David Mamet’s book, “Secret Knowledge.” Mamet, a Hollywood screenwriter, for years socialized with the worst LA liberals and espoused lefty philosophy until one day he took a hard look at himself and decided that him promoting liberalism was bogus. He lived and ran his affairs as a conservative and finally made the observation that a conservative is what he always was, and should act accordingly. He even found a Republican rabbi, if you can imagine such a thing..
Gene Simmons of Kiss has a similar story. His reality show “Family Values” depicts him as bourgeois as anybody.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt that both of those gentlemen believe in God as religious Jews. Lennon? He called himself an atheist but at least he knew the truth about how he handled his personal life and finances. And he knew a winner in Ronnie.
My understanding is that many of the “British Invasion” rockers, like most of the Rolling Stones, had upper class aspirations. George Harrison wanted to be the first Beatle to have a $1 million in cash in the bank. Most of the others were similar.
The real hippy-dippy, Grateful Dead-type thinking came in a bit later. Most rockers were more realistic.
Lennon was certainly never the ideologue that leftwing interests wanted him to be , and it’s a mistake to conveniently forget that the Beatles collectively also did the song Revolution whose message was “We don’t want to change the world”-—they did the same thing to Dylan, who played along for awhile, but who was ultimately way too much of an individual and aware of what it took to grow as an artist and a human being,to allow himself to be pigeonholed as a “socially-conscious Icon of his generation” Dylan began his rightward tilt probably longer ago than any of us were aware of, probably long before Lennon began his at the tail end of the Carter Years.
Well, he did write these lines ...
“You say you’ll change the Constitution, oh yeah,
But you know you oughta change your head instead ...”
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow ...”
Well, he did write these lines ...
“You say you’ll change the Constitution, oh yeah,
But you know you oughta change your head instead ...”
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow ...”
Well, he did write these lines ...
“You say you’ll change the Constitution, oh yeah,
But you know you oughta change your head instead ...”
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow ...”
1979 was about the same time I was having my conversion from being a young Democrat perfectly at ease with the Hippie generation around me, to being a staunch Reagan God & Country conservative. John was always the “deep thinker” of the four, so I’m not too shocked about this revelation. Now if it was Paul or George, now that would be a real shocker.
I know Lennon was pro life too, maybe he was starting to turn his life around. You never know, but I doubt it.
Not saying Lennon couldn't make the shift, but that's a long way to go.
If a dead uneducated pop star simpleton’s political views are so important, then how about Rudy Vallee?
Well, Rubin became a stockbroker shortly thereafter, so who can understand such unstable personalities.
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