January 7, 2013
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John Lennon
The book I read to research this post was The Lives of John Lennon by William Goldman which is a very good book which I borrowed from a friend. This book depicts a pretty grim picture of John Lennon especially towards the end. Apparently Cilla Black & Paul MacCartney dissaprove of the book. Cilla Black’s first hit single was written by the Beatles. Some of the things in the book are that he was a bit of a primadonna, used to wander around his home naked, he was quite grumpy through drug use & appeared to have anorexia. One thing I think is definitely true is he would wander around Central Park without bodyguards & people could freely go upto him. This was a bit unfortunate because as you probably know he got assasinated. I think Paul Maccartney is more gifted musically & I think his body of work is more consistent. Nevertheless John has written a lot of great songs but a lot of what he has written especially when he & Yoko Ono were doing half an album each like with the Imagine album he has written a lot of rubbish. Also despite modeling himself as a working class hero he was never really working class. He had a problem upbringing and was frequently naughty as a child which I think a lot of people identify with. I saw an interview with George Martin who was their producer. He said they were really nice lads but weren’t exceptionally talented. He said they played one of their songs for him and he told them if they picked up the tempo they’d have their first No 1.
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John would say he ASPIRED to be a working class hero. He never had a role model growing up, as his father, Fred, was a bit of a layabout. I remember one story where the police went to John’s apartment in NY and broke up a loud party. John allegedly told the cops they couldn’t arrest John Lennon. This was never proven or disproven.
Imagine that
@RighteousBruin - Thank you. That’s very interesting.
@mlbncsga - Thank you