John who?
-Dan
>Isn’t 25 years of burning candles for Lennon just boringly enough already?
Lennon's candles will burn forever...he was that great!
-Dan
"Imagine there's no lennon...'
You just made me even more satisfied with my own life choices.
At the time, I was too busy studying to notice all the hippy twittery was going on. The Beatles were just another annoying band this git would play all night in the lab on a radio he'd sneak into the lab. They still are.
I know you spent a lot of time on this, but why?
John Lennon was one of the great rock 'n' rollers, the Beatles were a true entertainment phenomenon, and their music still rocks and has a lot to say. They're not dated, not a bit.
That's an extraordinary accomplishment. Politics ain't everything.
Yes, John Lennon is missed. His death was a tragedy. Had he lived, there is very little doubt the Beatles would have made more music together, after rifts had been healed by time, and might even have toured.
John -- and George -- were a big part of lots of our lives. Lots of us are sorry they are gone.
Bury him already...
LOL...Brian......2x4....4x4....or my boot....quit your whinning.
I can forgive Britain for the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, but not for sending the Beatles to America. The Beatles took good American Rock and Roll down the toilet. The musicality of their singing sucked. Acid rock and worse followed. They drove a stake through the heart of American Pop music so thoroughly that today, young singers can't sing. And, soccer moms make their kids listen to the Beatles telling them what great musicians they were. The Beatles SUCK.
No. Not everyone.
Most of those morons think they're burning candles for Lenin.
Much to do about a dead dope head.
I think of Lennon and the story about the waiter telling Lennon how much he loved his great song "Yesterday."
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.
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.
Why should we care how folks remember Lennon. It;s not for me but it's their business.
I was one of those who had been brought up on the whole Beatle "Legend." They had broken up long before I was old enough to listen to them. The closest thing to a Beatles experience my generation had was Kiss. Lennon was an intellectual goofball, but he was able to clean up his act so that he could be a father to Sean Lennon. Had he lived he probably would have wound up as semi-retired rock royalty, making occasional appearances on talk shows; heck there might even have been a reality show starring him by now.
Lennon was a truly great musician and writer but probably an unpleasant and selfish person, addled by drugs and emotional difficulties.
I never will forget Merv Griffins description of dealing with the Lennons after their time on his TV show. He said they totally trashed their studio rooms and went out of their way to be rude and mean to underlings. And his treatment of his older son wasn't too hot either.
I've always given him a little bit of a pass considering he seems to have been a true drug addict. Doesn't anyone wonder why he spent all that time in bed? He was too sedated to move.
Judging from Yoko Ono, he had terrible taste in women.
She looked like a little boy. But then, maybe that was the point with him.
Yeah, his death has been overdone.
The "peace and anti-war musician" couldn't even make peace with Paul. He could be a real prick sometimes.
What a phoney.IMO