Posted on 12/08/2010 6:53:25 PM PST by SamAdams76
Wellll, he’s no Eric Clapner.
Yes, she is an opportunist and quite offensive at times.
She declared that woman is the n***er of the world. Never mind that just isn't so or that it is racially insensitive to make such a remark.
John was already splitting off from Yoko and had an affair. He'd been married to Cynthia before that. I don't believe that 30 years later they would still have been together. And to think, her first target was to scope out Paul (who brushed her off on John).
She was in a movie before she became an "artist", it's called Satan's Bed and was a 60s "adults only" exploitation film.
She was also in the concert/documentary Tonight Let's All Make Love In London which filmed Pink Floyd's perfomance at the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream event. Yoko was a peformance artist cutting away at a woman's clothing and John can be seen in the crowd at this concert. Later he would meet her at a gallery installation.
And John played the persecuted victim (the US government worked to deny him residency) but he acknowledged his involvement in a plot to spike Richard Nixon’s coffee with a heavy dose of LSD (Grace Slick visited the White House once and tried the same sabotage on Nixon).
Lennon’s own heroin abuse gets glossed over. The man did hard drugs.
And for all of his talk of peace, he and Yoko couldn’t put aside their differences with Paul McCartney much (John and Paul did get back together a couple nights in a studio in 1975 with Harry Nilsson and others).
PING
As everyone is remembering John Lennon with tears let’s remember what he thought about the men and women of the UK armed services, specifically the WW II vets.
On receiving his MBE Order of the British Empire honor he justified it saying: “Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people.” “We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.”
What a guy John!
Not exactly in the league of Pearl Harbor and 9/11, or even the JFK assassination, but for those who are old enough to remember, it was a pretty big deal when John Lennon was assassinated in New York City exactly 30 years ago today, on December 8, 1980.Nice to think about how young I was at the time, didn't seem like it then. :') I want those years over! Thanks SamAdams76.
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