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National Lampoon Letters FROM The Editors:
Dear Sirs:
Imagine no possessions. What a terrible, terrible thought.
Yoko Ono
New York City
Posted on 12/04/2010 7:03:56 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
On December 8, 1980, The World was stunned to hear that John Lennon was murdered on a street in New York, not far from where he and his wife Oko lived. The impact of his death was felt immediately, as millions mourned the forty-year old rock star in candlelight vigils around the world.
What was this man’s legacy? Who is this man who will again be deeply mourned by many in this generation on the thirtieth anniversary of His death? Lennon was no doubt a profoundly gifted musician and lyricist, but I believe his legacy goes deeper than his involvement with the Beatles, and the songs he is noted for.
Lennon’s legacy was more than musical, it was and still is spiritual, for he was a minstrel for the drug and sexual revolution that swept through the west in the sixties. Obviously he wasn’t the only one who promoted sex and drugs through music, but he was one of the more effective toxic role models.
In a Rolling Stone interview of January 1971, Lennon admitted he began taking LSD in 1964, “How Long did it go?”, he was asked.”It went on for years” he replied.”I must of had a thousand trips…a thousand,I just used to eat it all the time”. When the Rolling Stone interviewer said “Theres a lot of obvious LSD things you did in the music,” Lennon replied,”Yes”. (from pg 58 The Legacy Of John Lennon, David Noebel,Nelson publishing)
Lennon would go on to say that “Help”, “Rubber Soul”,”Day Tripper” and “Yellow Submarine” were all drug oriented. Perhaps the most pervasively drug oriented Album up to that time, was 1967s “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. This album has been credited with heralding the drug revolution.
Lennon himself , to be fair, insisted that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was not a coy reference to LSD, although the lyrics of the song evoke a mystical,dreamy hallucinogenic trip. But other songs such as “I Get High With A Little Help From My Friends”openly advocate the Pharmekia that God hates.
The fact that the Beatles were open and outspoken proponents of the Drug Revolution cannot be denied.Life Magazine, in an article “The New Far Out Beatles” quoted Paul McCartney about his own use of LSD;
“After I took it ,it opened my eyes.We use only 1/10 of our brain.Just think what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world.If politicians would take LSD, there wouldn’t be any more war ,poverty or famine!.”(Life June 1967)
In July 1967 The Beatles signed heir names to a full-page advertisement in the London Times, calling for the legalization of marijuana. In his biography of the band, called The Beatles, Hunter Davies quotes Lennon’s favorable evaluation of his own use of LSD,”I was suddenly struck by great visions when I first took acid. But you have got to be looking for it before you could possibly find it”.
Lennon was also a minstrel of the sexual revolution which wreaked such terrible havoc in the west. I personally do not believe we have ever recovered from the trashing of Judeo- Christian morality in the west, and perhaps never will.
Lennon strongly advocated in his songs and interviews, and by his very public life, the deliberate destruction of the Christian sexual ethic of monogamous. married, till death do us part commitment.
Lennon, while still married to his first wife Cynthia,posed nude for an Album cover with his adulterous lover Yoko Ono for his album The Two Virgins. His comment on that was ;
“…intellectually we knew marriage was a stupid scene, but we’re romantic and square as well as hip and aware. We lived together for a year before we got married, but we were still tied to other people by a bit of paper.”(Noebel,legacy of John Lennon, pg 52,Nelson)
Lennon also wrote a pornographic ,blasphemous book called A Spaniard In The Works, which ridiculed Jesus, in hate filled and badly written prose. There are many blasphemous, anti Christ quotations Lennon is noted for, therefore I feel no need to repeat them. We pray he had time to renounce his anti-christianity before he died, God alone knows.
We are all going to be treated to the spectacle of mass mourning, public airings of Lennon’s songs, notably the atheistic hymn, Imagine , and other forms of canonisation, on or about the anniversary of Lennon’s tragic death. But what exactly are the people mourning?
Who is going to mourn for the millions who followed Lennon’s lead into the drug culture, and never made it out to sanity again? Who will shed a tear for the legions of broken and ruined people, who allowed Lennon’s message of sexual anarchy to wreck their lives? What about the broken families, the disenfranchised children, the ruined health of the thousands who bought into Lennon’s hedonistic Utopia?
Lennon had gifts alright, but who did he actually put them to the service of?
Psalm 12
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever .The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
more to come
Sure, it’s possible to write songs about things other than conservatism. (This statement seems a bit pointless.)
But in the particular case of John Lennon, all we got was a plague of spiritual rot and moral decay delivered in what were essentially remixes of musical patterns which have on a fundamental level been known to man for thousands of years.
That is hopeful story, than you- Pas Bill
It's a small thing, but to be accurate, the name of the song is "With a Little Help from My Friends". The "get high" part is a lyric in the song, but it's not the title.
Comic Sam Kinison cleaned up (off drugs etc IIRC) only to die in a car crash
Lennon cleaned up, settled down to raise his (second) son,
put out an album with well-written, good songs about heading into middle age, for all those of his generation were doing the same thing...seemed happy and contet...but was shot to death...
If you saw the LennonNYC film on public TV recently one pal of his mentions that in the studio they had a pic of his son
Sean hanging up, as if to remind himself of his family and
what he was working for...and one time he asked the pal over into a room “and I thought he was gonna get out some drugs or something...and he gets out...chocolate...
and says... ‘shh! don’t tell Yoko!’” LOL
I dunno, he seemed to be settling down and cleaning up
and happy toward the end only to die of lead poisoning.
“I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But in the meantime we’ll have to be patient
‘Cause it’s a long way to go
A hard roe to hoe...”
—Beautiful Boy, John Lennon
...”it’s curling!...”
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National Lampoon Letters FROM The Editors:
Dear Sirs:
Imagine no possessions. What a terrible, terrible thought.
Yoko Ono
New York City
Thanks Profound- point well taken-
I think George was a nicer person but Ringo is a good chap. Paul was a phony and john was lousy to his first wife and son.
People are known by the company they keep:
Paul - duets with Michael Jackson
John - mainly hung out with a did “music” with Yono.
George - Roy Orbison, Tom Petty (dylan and Jeff Lynne). Dylan and Jeff Lynne are okay but Orbison and Petty are A1.
Ringo-I forget who have been in his solo group?? Billy Preston?
Excellent post. He was a VERY troubled soul who appeared to be coming into the light as evidenced by his later song writing.
“Before you go to sleep,
Say a little prayer,
Every day in every way,
It’s getting better and better”
and
“Well, I tried so hard to stay alive
But the angel of destruction keeps on houndin’ me all around
But I know in my heart
That we never really parted.
Oh, no.
They say the Lord helps those who helps themselves,
So I’m asking this question in the hope that you’ll be kind.
‘Cause I know deep inside
I was never satisfied
Oh no.
Lord, help me, lord,
Please, help me, lord, yeah, yeah, yeah
Help me to help myself,
Help me to help myself.”
There are many more.
” But he did marry a sushiwoman, sushiman!”
He married a baka woman !
” They probably gave her a (one-way) Ticket to Ride.”
Unfortunately , people like her , “ idols “ , are worshipped in Japan .
Not only is it curling, it’s rocking out too! All of the time. Good yeah good. Right all right.
Well, on history’s positive side, we were avoided a horrendous Beatle reunion!
Ringo married Barbara Bach. That’s good enough company!
And John was the coolest. Paul was the cutest.
Their talent was awesome.
Yes, I agree. I saw The Beatles in concert in 1966, wore Beatle boots, the whole nine yards, yet when rock 'n roll was taken over by Disco in the '70s I turned to Counrty Music and never looked back.
The entire time my kids were growing up, I rarely played any Beatles songs around them, but when my 19 year-old daughter came home from college to visit last Christmas I decided to put on The Beatles Rubber Soul album from my old record collection. Listening to the entire album for the first time in her life, she said: "My God they were good, I could listen to that all day."
A few years ago, one of our local tv stations had on a documentary about John & Yoko; showed them walking away naked with their naked butts shining. It was during the day when kids would be out of school and flipping channels.
I called the station. The guy there said in effect, “We only try to give the local viewers what they want.” So, I got nowhere with that, but told them anyway.
He nebver wrote anything decent musically after 1965 or so; he was a burnt out drug head the last 10+ years of his life. Quite a bit over rated.
“I don’t care about his politics, that was his business,”
Well, the problem was he did not keep it “his business” but went around deconstructing traditionalism till his dying day. This is what all those “artists”from the sixties were trying to do. The French started deconstructionism in literature and art, and the rock musicians just copied the intent in their lifestyles. Nothing is “just” anything; there are always reactions to actions. Lennon,whose music I did not like, was an arrogant rock star who thought he could make the world into his own image by sitting around naked in public with his strange wife. I am not sure how directly he influences society today, I would not give him that much credit, but his kind of leftist intellectualism is what we are dealing with in government this very minute.
***Rock n Roll is just music.***
You take that back!
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