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To: Mister Baredog
BARF ALERT

See if this'll cheer you up.

From John Lennon on live 8

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....

snip

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


11 posted on 07/01/2005 5:31:47 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver

"We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour"

Well. "Imagine" that.


12 posted on 07/01/2005 5:35:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: DumpsterDiver
There is no one concert.

Well now, there's a hidden gem.

Something else to be ignored by the intelligensia and the MSM.

13 posted on 07/03/2005 8:44:16 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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