THE GHOST OF JOHN LENNON IS STRONG IN THIS ONE
THE GHOST OF JOHN LENNON IS STRONG IN THIS ONE
Now I’ve no idea why anyone would want to be possessed by John Lennon. He had appalling taste in glasses for one (have you ever tried to read with glasses like that - its like watching a television inside a washing machine). He wrote Imagine, a shoe-in for the worse piece of metaphysical hippy claptrap beyond the writings of Timothy Leary. Perhaps it is because he was the self styled intellectual Beatle: have you seen his poetry and those really rubbish line drawings of his? Whatever, in the years after this particular day the music died there seemed a never ending stream of people trying to steal his thunder. Never get in bed with Yoko though. Funny that.
To become John Lennon is simple. You duet with Paul McCartney. Michael Jackson not only bought the rights to all Beatle songs, he wrote one too - Say Say Say. Touched by the hand of Quincey Jones (not the pathologist) it was an insipid piece of nonsense which proved that Paul was so far from having an edge that he was positively a Klein Bottle. (I paid attention in topology). Stevie Wonder chipped in too. Admittedly the cod philosophy knocked up in Ebony and Ivory almost parallelled that of Imagine, but Stevie forgot to put on the little round specs. They probably would have fallen off when he did his little head spack thing anyhow.
Paul has dragged his own dirty name through the dirty dirt incessantly for the last thirty years. But he pales next to Elvis Costello’s turn at Lennon. Even Costello (what does he want to be Presley or a Beatle?) has nothing on the corpse re-animator general, the man who’s producerly touch is death to all who get near him. But Jeff Lynne I am leaving til another day.
In truth there is only one McCartney collaborator who has ever reached the genius of Lennon. Bear in mind I consider Lennon to not be a genius, just a Scouser who got lucky - or at least put out of his misery. Nope, the only good collaboartor was Rupert, skipping through the Frog Song with gay abandon. The frogs were good too - but the check trousered anthropomorphic representative of the conservative press really tagged the spirit of Lennon. And I daresay Yoko would shag him too.
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GMAN on October 25th, 2006
F*** YOU FOR TALKING THAT WAY ABOUT THE GREATEST MUSICIAN/MAN THAT EVER LIVED! YOU PROBABLY SUPPORT BUSH AND THE WAR! YOU WERE PROBABLY FRIENDS WITH MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, THE MAN THAT KILLED JOHN LENNON!
FT's CarsmileSteve on October 26th, 2006
just in case you didn’t know who Mark Chapman was…
Marcello Carlin on October 26th, 2006
MARK CHAPMAN
Assassin of
JOHN LENNON
Musician
Brittany on December 2nd, 2006
What in the hell is wrong with you?!
Sean Lockwood on March 20th, 2007
A typical narrow minded idiots view. You clearly understand nothing about music or John Lennons true values he lived by. Beleive me, if only 1 of our world leaders adopted his views, this stupid war in Iraq would never of been thought of.
In my eyes, you are just as bad as Mark Chapman, you are a sick individual with no true values. In future keep your opinions to yourself, I can safely say about 0.001% of the WORLDS population would be in agreeance with you.
Loser
FT's Tom on March 21st, 2007
To be fair Sean, I think if, say, the President of Andorra had adopted Lennon’s views, the course of the war in Iraq would have been absolutely the same.
Steven Vaughn on May 4th, 2007
Everyone has a right to their own opinion. John would have been the first one to say that.
Having said that, I’ve an opinion of my own…Tanya Headon’s intellect is pathetic and only makes me feel sorry for her. Peace.
j-damn on January 20th, 2008
Ha! This is hilarious. You’re almost as funny as Joe Queenan. What’s even better is there are no comments for damn near 6 years, and then the only thing these dolts can write is “Ooh, the Iraq ‘War’ is bad”.
Simps.
twstdspirit on November 1st, 2008
“producerly” do us all a favor and go get an education, you ignorant hick. How dare you bad mouth a legend like John Lennon, if you had 1 third the talent of the man you’d still be nothing. Have some respect John Lennon probably done more in half an hour than you have in your entire life.