Posted on 12/08/2005 10:30:24 PM PST by Brian_Baldwin
What I find so annoying about Lennon's little manifesto "Imagine" is its hypocrisy. "Imagine no possessions", indeed. The man had a nine-figure fortune when he died. (Wasn't that one of Chapman's reasons for killing him? That he was a 'phony' and that he was Holden Caulfield in a people-shooting hat, stalking 'phonies'?)
That said...Lennon's solo work was crap. So was McCartney's. Together, they were the best. I love the Beatles. Especially their later work.
All his life Lennon wanted to marry a shrill, talentless hack. Since Kate Bush was not yet available, John 'married' Yoko.
George Martin and Paul McCartney still have nightmares over what the Beach Boys accomplished in the studio on Pet Sounds.
I remember the story of Paul walking into the studio with the Pet Sounds album and bitching George out about why he can't get Paul's bass to sound like that.
Much to do about a dead dope head.
I heard Yoko did the same thing she does every year. Show up with a bunch of bodyguards for 3 minutes for a photo op, and then walk across the street back into her apartment.
I think of Lennon and the story about the waiter telling Lennon how much he loved his great song "Yesterday."
Lennon's candles will burn forever... He was a freeking fruit loop socialist
Isn’t 25 years of burning candles for Lennon just boringly enough already?
The tourists like it. And no doubt somebody is making money selling the candles.
True that!
The Dakota isn't a high rise (It's actually the apt. housein Rosemary's Baby).
He wasn't shot in the lobby, he was shot on the street
He was shot in the back.
I agree with you.
You know so much, how much is the rent???
Lennon started out with a sense of humor. Then he became a pompous rich windbag, lecturing the masses on socialism while living a life of luxury. Like so many liberals do, he lost his sense of humor. Blecch!
His solo output is trite, banal, forgettable.
And the idea that Brits discovered black music that white Americans ignored is B.S. There were very popular black (and white) doo-wop groups in the 50's. Rockabilly music was influenced by Southern black music. And then there were the decades of jazz that preceded the 60's.
It's condos, though some apts come up for rent every once in awhile. More interesting is how it got its name -- the Dakota. It was built as a luxury building in the 1800s. When it was built 72 street was the upper edge of Manhattan -- or at least wherre respectable people lived. Folks ridiculed the joint, saying, "You might as well be living in the Dakotas."
A great musician? You can stop smoking that crack pipe.
Just another talentless dead hippie.
Imagine there's no Lennon it's easy if you try.
If you take Lennon as a political figure first, rather than an entertainer, and judge him for his political statements, rather than his artistry, are you making the same error or taking the same wrong turn as he did when he turned from music to politics? Arguably somebody has to deal with the social and political consequences that artists leave behind, but too often it leads to critics simply putting politics first and ignoring the achievements that brought such artists renown.
BTW, some in the media are talking about Lennon's "assassination." That's not a word that most of us would use. It has some applicability or relevance, but doesn't entirely fit what happened. It's not a word that we use in regard to other celebrity murders.
He was a very wealthy musician living in NYC. He behaved accordingly.
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