Posted on 08/23/2014 1:20:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I concur!
That copy has since been sold at auction (someone at the scene picked it up off the ground).
Who's the real sickie? The guy who got it signed, the obsessive fan who thought it would be a good memento, or the collector who bought it later knowing what it was?
> Ah, let's not get carried away.
Let's be clear: I disliked his leftist politics, and while his efforts to promote world peace were nice, a lot of hippies were doing that back then. I'm not at all fond of the political stuff from his Yoko Ono controlled avante garde period.
I was talking about his non-political musical output, which is the vast majority of what he produced. The man was a creative genius, musically. Even if you weren't a fan, you must admit he was a hell of a prolific songwriter and millions of people enjoyed his songs.
As a musician, I mourn that we never got to hear what he would have done in his later, less-political years. Those songs would have improved the musical world, at least.
"Imagine" was written in 1970/71 at the peak of his political, drug-laden, Yoko Ono controlled, insanity. That song, and its One-World peace/love hippie sentiment, is far too easy a target for criticism (I don't particularly like it either), and it is not representative of where Lennon was headed a decade later. Reagan or not, Lennon would have produced outstanding rock-and-roll and R&B tunes -- those were what he had in his musical soul.
I was a Beatles fan in the 60's, but I lost track of Lennon from about 1970 until "Double Fantasy" was announced. That album was a disappointment -- I didn't much care for the continuing influence of Yoko Ono, or the personal/romantic nature of the release, but I was glad he was writing and recording again. I don't think for a moment that "Imagine" was "an example of what else was to come". I looked forward to him returning to rock-n-roll and R&B and enriching the world with more great songs.
Mark Chapman stole that from the world, for which he can rot in hell.
I just got the Blu-ray edition of A Hard Day’s Night and while I will say that the comedy does not hold up (I didn’t think it was too funny when I saw it as a kid), there is no doubt that the musical sequences are absolute powerhouses - and that Lennon was the obvious driving force behind it. I always hated Yoko’s influence in turning him from a macho tough guy (which he truly was!) into a fake peacenik which just didn’t suit him at all. Interestingly, for all her peacenik junk, she was and is a hard-nosed business woman who buys up Upper West Side real estate like you and I would buy jelly beans.
I meant thing. But I guess it works....
That is always a possibility. But I don’t think so, I think everyone around him would have exiled him if so. Don’t think he would have done that.
He was a revolutionary, if he had the chance, he would have overthrown the UK/US governments without hesitation. I think, that is one of the reasons he was killed. His voice reached millions, much like MLK. Once a public speaker/celebrity starts spouting about revolution on the level that MLK and Lennon did, then they get taken out. Sometimes I think this is the truth, other times I think opposite. Dunno.
I’ve always heard that Lennon was becoming more and more conservative as he got older.
His biggest crime was not shooting Yoko.
“What kind of country is this where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f’ing bullet.....explain THAT to me.” - Dennis Leary (No Cure for Cancer)
On that we can agree.
I heard her "sing" back then, and was appalled. The screeching was unlistenable.
I heard her "sing" again recently on a late-night show, and was appalled all over again.
I acknowledge that she is a part of God's Creation just as much as I am. But I keep hoping that He will reach down and reclaim the bit of clay that is her, roll it back into a ball with His great hands, and say, "Okay, that's quite enough of that."
But no, she'll probably outlive me. *sigh*
I know this is rhetorical but why is John Hinckley Jr. granted partial freedom and Chapman rots in jail?
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