[ETL]

The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"

TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?

JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

http://beatlesnumber9.com/lostlennon.html

[Huck]

Lennon was NWPM-—nothing without Paul McCartney.

[reefdiver]

Women beater, pretty much a pr!ck wrote some good songs.

[Blind Eye Jones]

John was a conniving idealist in small ways who hired conniving people in bigger ways and they enjoy all the press that conniving people enjoy. Some may say he was an emotional exhibitionist who, for all the later talk of peace and love, beat on his wife and ignored his child. But this is to see mean spiritedness where love is more to the point the message to the press. John obviously got mixed up in the wrong crowd, a crowd who was able to lionize and canonize him for shooting his mouth off and writing a song about communism (in an way that doesn’t mention the ugly word) and no religion too. St. John the Baptist was no Jesus freak and the water poured on the heads of heads was filled with mild hallucinogens and other assorted number 9 goodies from the Beatle days. Anything to escape being a cold turkey. Lennon will best be remembered for being famous...

[dfwgator]

“PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA...”

Oh, I thought he said, “Give Pizza Chants.”

[MyFreedomIHoldDear]

Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun. bang bang shoot shoot

[Wyatt's Torch]

Imagine is the worst, most anti-American song in recorded music history. But it sure sounds pretty........

[gilor]

I remember when the 2nd beatle croaked, ruining one of my favorite jokes.....

What is it gonna take for a beatles reunion?

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