BARF ALERT
See if this'll cheer you up.
An excerpt from David Sheff's September 1980 Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:
Sheff: Just to finish your favorite subject [the Beatles], what about the suggestion that the four of you put aside your personal feelings and regroup to give a mammoth concert for charity, some sort of giant benefit?Lennon: I don't want to have anything to do with benefits. I have been benefited to death.
Sheff: Why?
Lennon: Because they're always rip-offs....
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Sheff: But the fact is, $200,000,000 to a poverty-stricken country in South America...
Lennon: Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
http://john-lennon.com/playboyinterviewwithjohnlennonandyokoono.htm