Then why'd you marry this, smart guy?
Posted on 12/05/2005 6:12:41 PM PST by ncountylee
JOHN Lennon was almost as famous for his biting wit as he was for his music.
The star who was shot dead in New York 25 years ago this week - on December 8, 1980 - pulled no punches in interviews.
Here DAVID EDWARDS looks at some of his acerbic comments on everything from religion to the Rolling Stones.
ON PAUL McCARTNEY
WE got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. Paul took over and supposedly led us. What's leading us when you wander around in circles?INthe studio, every time he sang the line 'Get back to where you once belonged' he'd look at Yoko. HEis an egomaniac.
ON ELVIS PRESLEY
"ELVIS really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him and the rest was a living death."
ON THE SIXTIES
"IF someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
ON RELIGION
"CHRISTIANITY will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that, I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Forgot why I disliked Lennon so much.
John and Paul had made up by the time of John's death. John was one messed up guy for a while.
John Lennon: God is dead.
God: John Lennon is dead.
"JOHN Lennon was almost as famous for his biting HALFwit as he was for his music."
Corrected.
Another sub moron from the left. The supposedly erudite Lennon was really a fool.
Then why'd you marry this, smart guy?
Genius? From this he sounds more like he was an egomaniac.
Lennon.
A great entertainer.
A lousy world statesman.
That he acheived such Guru status shows the lack of depth and understanding of the looney left.
Lennon's overrated.
Genius is what an Einstein or a Mozart or what a shakespeare did. This yuppie-hippe got drugged and wrote some songs that sold a while. OK. so?
Yeah, that' pure genius right there.
I don't recall where I read it, but it was a review of a Lennon album where the critic said of Lennon's work (and I paraphrase), "This guy could back up to a microphone and sing out his @ss and he'd sell a million records". Obviously, John did just that on more than one occassion.
Gads, that pick is gonna give me nightmares for a looooooong time...
Here head, have some more crack.
Who discovered that you could call someone special or interesting, then make millions by parading that freak (ummm, "John") in a figurative three-ring circus side-show that we call "entertainment"? And people DREAM of this role?
Celebrities. *PUKE*
(At least Elvis understood his role... shut-up and sing!)
Too bad John is dead. It would be fun hearing him spout off endlessly about Islam, Palestinians, Israel, President Bush, the US, etc, and organizing peace concerts. As long as the money kept coming in.
"Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can,..."
Actually, I can't imagine that. Even socialists own something -- usually bad breath and a hidden stash of cash. Even John owned something. In fact, he owned millions of those somethings.
"HE was working with two brilliant songwriters and he learnt a lot from us. I wouldn't have minded being George, the invisible man, and learning what he learned."
Lennon was always my least favorite of the lot. Harrison of course was my favorite. I'd put Derek W. Dick (Fish - ex-Marillion) up against Lennon in a battle for best songwriter any day.
Lennon was a drugged out socialist/Marxist who wrote some good songs... come to think of it, Fish is a drugged out socialist who writes good songs. What is it about drugged out socialists that they write good songs?
Manic-depression. They're (a) very creative, and (b) very suicidal, i.e. they want to kill themselves (drugs) and everyone around them (socialism).
Jesus I know, John is just a faint memory to me and a "who?" to my children.
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