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.
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.
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.
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.
The Beatles broke up in 1970.
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?
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.
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.’
As always, follow the money. The really great thing about Bob Dylan is that he’s always admitted it was about the money.
John Lennon, though, was about the money, and he knew it was about the money, but he just wouldn’t say it in public.
He made his money pretending to be against making his money.
Pretty cool trick if you can pull it off. But it does have a price. Hypocrisy. The media would be aghast at anyone calling Lennon a hypocrite, but he was.
About Mao, about communism, about peace and harmony, etc. About everything except his rejection of Christ.
Christ is the stone over which men stumble.
While Lennon read a book on Marx, the quartet practiced in the park....
Don McLean had it right.
“Over the following months he baffled those close to him by constantly praising ‘the Lord,’ writing Christian songs
with titles like ‘Talking with Jesus’ and ‘Amen’ (the Lord’s Prayer set to music), and trying to convert
nonbelievers. He also called the prayer line of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson’s program. The change in his life
perturbed Yoko, who tried to talk him out of it. She reminded him of what he’d said about his vulnerability to
strong religious leaders because of his emotionally deprived background. She knew that if the press found out
about it they would have a field day with another John and Jesus story. John became antagonistic toward her, blaming
her for practicing the dark arts and telling her that she couldn’t see the truth because her eyes had been blinded by
Satan.
“Those close to the couple sensed that the real reason she was concerned was that it threatened her control over
John’s life. If he became a follower of Jesus he would no longer depend on her and the occultists. During long,
passionate arguments she attacked the key points of his fledgling faith. They met with a couple of Norwegian
missionaries whom Yoko questioned fiercely about the divinity of Christ, knowing that this was the teaching that
John had always found the most difficult to accept. Their
answers didn’t satisfy her, and John began to waver in his commitment.
LOL... oh brother.
Those who have never seen “Spinal Tap” ought really give it a go. Funny movie and there are echoes of John and Yoko in it. Recommended (despite the participation of Leftist idiot, Rob Reiner).
I guess I fail to understand why ‘Christians’ are much more interested in the lives of famous sinners than ordinary ones.
A Christian has become a new person. Old things are passed away, and all things become new. Personally, none of these balladeers and pretenders, that the ‘world’ labels as ‘stars’, are more special than the averge man on the street.
God calls it being no respecter of persons.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse; doesn’t matter how well known they are.
I’m just glad He pulled me out of the mirey clay.
Loved his music hated his politics.
Whatever..but what great music they made:
Yesterday
Something
Let it Be
In My Life
Twist and Shout