Comrade Lennon

http://billrandles.wordpress.com ^ | 12-08-10 | Bill Randles

[Stepan12]

Because Fox News was having so much coverage of Lennon, one of the piano pieces I played at the office Christmas party was "Imagine" by John Lennon.

I knew that the lyrics were Communist; e.g., Imagine no religion. It's not hard to do; etc., but I held my tongue and sang the lyrics anyway.

Almost all of the people there at my office party were Liberal so I had nothing to talk about. That is part of the reason I played the piano there instead.

[onedoug]

George Martin produced the imagery and texture of The Beatles music that made it so highly original. Otherwise they´d have been here and gone as with most groups who´ve had a shot.

[GinaLolaB]

John Lennon blasphemed our Lord in the song “the ballad of John and Yoko” also in the song “Imagine” he said “imagine there is no heaven.” John Lennon was an atheist. IMO, the worst thing he did was that he let Yoko take over his life. Julian (his son) said that Yoko took everything from the Lennon family. She even threw Julian and his mother out of their house in England.

[Mariner]

“Back in The USSR”

That was a McCartney song. Sheesh.

How about picking on Lady Gaga, Madonna or Bono...at least they haven't been dead for 30years and are still doing all of the bad moral stuff you attribute...one could think exclusively...to John Lennon.

By the way, he didn't have nearly the influence your describe...he was riding a wave but he was not that wave.

[Lurking Libertarian]

“Back in The USSR” That was a McCartney song. Sheesh.

And was obviously much more of a Beach Boys parody than a hymn to communism.

[Mariner]

"Beach Boys parody"

I'd say it was more of a tribute.

[Inyo-Mono]

As “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” promoted the drug culture, so the 1972 album,”Sometime in New York”became the definitive Communist tract for the Beatles.

The Beatles broke up in 1970.

[freedumb2003]

I think Lennon was more of a nihilist than anything.

But even more than that, he was just loony-tunes, a curse carried by many talented people.

[freedumb2003]

As “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” promoted the drug culture, so the 1972 album,”Sometime in New York”became the definitive Communist tract for the Beatles.

The Beatles broke up in 1970.

Shh, he's on a roll...

[MichaelCorleone]

“John Lennon was an atheist. “

I’ll bet he’s not an atheist now.

[Mariner]

"I think Lennon was more of a nihilist than anything."

He MOSTLY raised himself from the age of 10 onward and never had a strong male influence in his life...well, except for those fellas singing on the radio, something he very early on learned he could do as well, if not better than them.

By the time he was 19 he was "nearly famous" and by the time he was 25 he was the most recognized man in the world.

Nobody ever told him "no".

How could he not be totally screwed up in the head?

But, dam he could sing. A melodic genius.

[ansel12]

The glory days of sixties idealism and “innocence” will be recalled with misty fondness by aging baby boomers, and those who came along later.

Why wouldn't The Beatles, and all the rest of the musicians and personalities of the 1960s be remembered by their own generation, why would only the boomers and younger remember them?

[brytlea]

Unfortunately the problem with John Lennon is that anyone listened to anything he said. He had some talent as a musician, it’s a shame he was murdered, and he said some pretty outrageous things. I remember pretty clearly. No one should take entertainers seriously as anything but entertainers, but unfortunately they impact the culture because stupid people look up to them as role models and believe that because they can sing, or write music, or act or whatever, that they have some sort of great insight. And of course, most of them are no smarter than the average person, and many of them are far less insightful and quite a bit more self absorbed.

[ansel12]

When America unilaterally “gave peace a chance” the Communist heroes Lennon had championed, slaughtered Vietnamese and Cambodians by the millions.

Don't blame Vietnam and Korea on a rock star, blame them on the people in government, and the military and the voting booths, especially blame the 45 to 65 year old leaders.

[DaveTesla]

It was in 1966 that his late bandmate John Lennon announced that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.

In an interview with the London Evening Standard, Lennon -
who was murdered in 1980 - said: ‘Christianity will go. It
will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that. I’m
right and I will be proved right.

‘We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity-Jesus was all
right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them
twisting it that ruins it for me.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1248085/Why-Ive-turned-God-70-reformed-Ringo-Starr.html#ixzz17O8oU6JX

[Maverick68]

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[70times7]

BS. Of course George Martin collaborated with them. But the Beatles were the primary reason(s) for the creativity of their music. One can properly have disdain for Lennon for being communist, and a very warped person, but his musical capability was very real.

In like manner, Madonna is shrewd, talented, smart and works hard. She is also a sleaze and a slut.

It is dangerous to dismiss those who are despotic as incapable, ignorant and/or stupid. When we make that mistake we end up with the likes of Clinton, Obama, Hitler, etc.

[tisket]

It was neither. It was a satirical stab at how communist the US had become, even at that time. And Lennon saw it. He saw what the feds were up to way back then. It's part of why they wanted to deport him so badly.

Think of the lyrics,

"Back in the US . . . back in the US . . . back in the USSR"

[pyx]

On March 4, 1966, this quote of John Lennon's was printed in an interview by reporter Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard:

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now ...

John Lennon was a LEFTist. See my tagline below.

The LEFT should show some of the compassion its always bragging about and FREE MARK DAVID CHAPMAN !

Personally I think that, Mark David Chapman should have been given a sit down in Ol' Sparky in August 1981 after his conviction.