Posted on 08/06/2007 5:56:23 AM PDT by John Galt 72
Well he did appear with him, by coincidence, at halftime during a Monday Night Football game, don't know if that exactly translated into Lennon supporting Reagan.
I would venture that Lennon knew it was all a spoof. He made a lot of friends that way. Other persons with his use of narcotics, would have been deported from the USA.
His fame and money got him a pass.
“Lennon’s magnum opus is an ode to atheism, communism, and the songwriter’s own ignorance of the forms of government, economic systems and faith traditions necessary to produce the peace and brotherhood the so-called smart Beatle dreamed of.”
Thank you for summarizing everything I ever thought about this otherwise drippy, dull, whiny (literally - nasal Lennon), lumbering song.
Why did Lennon leave his native England for the US?
“Imagine there’s no taxes....”
on balance, I still think this earth would have been a lot better off without him stinking up the place.
George Harrison was the only one of the four I could really stand. Starr, Lennon and McCartney were full of themselves, George was the only humble and grounded one in the bunch. Eventually Lennon’s weirdness even rubbed off on him.
I’m not talking about their personalities but their contributions to popular music which they improved considerably if you recall the sort of drivel being played on the radio before them. Lennon always had a BS detector and knew how much of what he said was so much drivel. There’s footage of him mocking the song Imagine at his home.
Reminds me of Mr. Rogers’s Land of Make Believe.
Drivel on the radio before him?
Oh please.
These guys are WAY overrated.
The pop music of the late 50s and early 60s was mostly terrible. The Beatles brought a compositional flair to rock music it hadnt had before
Your HO.
MHO is it was very good.
Granted, I’m no “artiste”. I just like what sounds good and don’t analyze it.
Fred Seaman said that Lennon hated Carter, who didn’t recognize Lennon when the two were introduced at Carter’s inaugural gala. Lennon also felt that Carter made America. There was an online interview with Mike Tree, Lennon’s gardener, where Tree said that Lennon liked Reagan because he heard that Reagan was into astrology.
With or without analysis do you think that Paul Anka and Frankie Avalon sounded good?
Peter Jennings used the song at the end of his coverage of the 1986 Statue of Liberty celebration, also.
Their music was different, no doubt about it. But from a musical standpoint they were not very talented or accomplished. Lennon knew three chords and Starr three grooves. They were just headed in a different direction.
Without psychobabble, yes.
BTW, if you ask me, the most-famous part of the Beatles - the hippie part - sounded goonie and “gay” to me. I like the original more-’50s Beatles better.
That Canadian phony?
With respect to the sentiments expressed in the song “Imagine” and other liberal anthems like it, it would be nice to see some of the people exhorting these verses to lead by example by actually giving up their possessions and spending the rest of their lives in a mud hut meditating or something like that. But so far, nobody has stepped up to the plate.
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