“If Paul McCartney would keep his politics and idiotic comments to himself I would listen to the Beatles.”
Lennon was a hardcore leftist before it was fashionable for rockers to be total leftists. I have a feeling Lennon, if alive, would be a Bernie supporter. To the greater point, it’s safe to assume all current “artists” vote Marxist these days. If I start to like any music I intentionally avoid learning of the band’s/artist’s politics — as I’m sure it would ruin the experience.
Perhaps not a Bernie guy in Lennon's later yeaars -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009562/John-Lennon-closet-conservative-fan-Reagan.html
If John Lennon were alive today, he’d have been dead many years ago with the massive amounts of chemicals and hallucinogens and alcohol he consumed in his relatively short life. Keith Richards would probably have demanded that John have an intervention.
An incredible talent of course—but John needed Paul and vice-versa... Though in my opinion, Paul is far more talented a player, singer and songwriter, I still loved John as a Beatle.
I wouldn’t paint Lennon so one-dimensionally. Let’s look at a few lines from Revolution:
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
and
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
and
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
This was pretty sophisticated for a twenty-something of the era, and doesn’t seem to indicate a hardcore leftist as you say.