Remember when they had to stop singing Happy Birthday at restaurants because Sir Paul owned the rights?
I keep thinking “Imagine there was never a Lennon.....”
One of the few small satisfactions that came out of 9/11 is that all the mindless FM veg-head stations immediately put Imagine into heavy, heavy rotation. They were then inundated by an avalanche of calls telling them to get that POS off the air. Imagine was, blissfully, not heard on NYC radio for at least two years.
It's making a comeback now, unfortunately.
Has the piano been to Ground Zero? Seem that a pretty violent act happened there nearly six years ago. Has It been to the Pentagon? That field in Pennsylvania?
Did it also sign it's autograph for her?
Continuing on this communist rant, the song says, “Imagine no possessions/I wonder if you can/No need for greed or hunger/A brotherhood of man.”
No possessions? Like Lennon’s expensive piano? Or his NYC condo? Or his hundreds upon hundreds of millions in cold hard cash? Those possessions?
2)Atheist one-worlders never seem to have the guts to suggest that mystical Third World nationalists give up their sovereignty. What kind of "one world government" do they really envision--Israel and America???
Nothing to kill or die for
In other words, nothing of any value.
Let's face it, we all do.
Which reminds me of my next point...
Don’t Do Drugs!
Who doesn't?
Thank You Thank You Thank You! I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly!
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.
Hey he was just a rich musician, who by the way, supported the IRA amongst his other philanthropy.
imagine no possessions. so i guess that would make it the people’s piano. i want to play twinkle twinkle little star on it, but they wont let me. im sure its owned by someone as an investment.
This was all prophecized in the introduction to the One World Book Project. Surely, the author is a genius!
“When the world leaders met, there were many proposals made; each aiming to align various countries in favorable trade alliances, military protection pacts, and to balance regional or world power. There was to be no agreement on the terms. Finally, one delegate stood up and in a feeble voice read a poem, the lyrics to Imagine by John Lennon. Suddenly, the song made sense. Nobody was laughing. What if there only was one government; no trade, no money, no military competition? What if the world could use the astronomical resources that had for the past twenty years been committed to destruction and defense, and instead spend them on improving the quality of life; really helping people? That was the resolution made in the year 2020.”
http://rainbowpediatrics.net/book/c2.html
Yeah.... world peace and all that...... can’t we all just....... get along?
~sob~
I need a hug.
“Imagine” is nothing more than the Hippy version of “The Internationale.”
“What kind of country is this where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not a single f’ing bullet? Explain that to me.” - Dennis Leary
No one ever realizes that not one sound came from The Piano. The music the fans heard was all in their heads, as they "Imagine"d what was being played.
I have always hated that song and the dopey little high-school drop out who wrote it.