White AND Asian - he’s doubly entitled
Nope. John preferred to designate his money-grubbing: first Epstein, then Klein, then Yoko, to make his bank but bank he preferred to make.
There is a remarkable stretch on the spoken-word part Anthology where Lennon goes on and on Revolver-era, about how 'making money is alright, it's the spending part that goes wrong'.
As I have repeatedly demonstrated on FR, "Imagine" is bullshit. John needed a hit. Period. Paragraph.
"Heroin > Insomnia > Midnight white piano > Maudlin chord progression > money-grubbing geisha Ono's dystopian poetry > Phil "Murder in the 2nd Degree" Spector not just producing (with rare restraint) but blowing the origin song out of proportion by convincing John to make it an anthem, to throw red meat to the burgeoning hippy/addict Manhattanite atheist schnorrer culture surrounding/smothering Lennon > John needing a hit in every imaginable way."