JOHN LENNON - Unreleased 2-hour interview with British students - Kenwood, December 2nd 1968

#thebeatles #johnlennon #thebeatlesotherwise
"Just another Beatle Fan Channel" you're thinking I s'ppose ?... Well yes. But with a new approach.
Away from the usual clichés on the Beatles everyone goes through all the time everywhere, away from the mandatory topics attached to the Beatles, away from the conventional esthetics most Beatles channels have... I want this channel to have a different look as well as a different outlook and take on the band once called "The Beatles", the most influential, socially significant, commercially most popular and culturally most worshipped music band in the history of the Western world. This channel wants to look through a new prism.
It will use other means and elements to go through usually overlooked subjects in their history, usually neglected characters, ignored notions in their narrative, unusual views or non politically-correct angles on certain aspects... Well you see the spirit.
Because what tends to be obvious these days when you go through all the Beatles related channels across KZbin, is the monotonous conception and predictability of most videos really, no offense...
Basically, in most cases you do end up either with some slightly sad, slightly lost, slightly lonely chubby boomer going through their "vinyl collection" like they were talking to themselves out loud really... Or you might come across some trendy 25-year-old New Jersey hipster, often nice but also often corrupted by product endorsements, telling all about various existing Brazilian vinyl pressings of "Abbey Road"...
Not to mention the unavoidable channels of "tribute-bands/ look-alike tribute-bands", complete with wigs and Sgt. Pepper outfits, delivering cringy renditions of "This Boy" on cheap out-of-tune guitars before extatic devotees holding out smartphones, somewhere in a Liverpool "Beatle museum" of some sort or in some "Beatles convention" upstate Arizona, USA...
Call me ugly but, remembering John's clear sarcastic and iconoclast tendencies and views on all myths including the Beatles' myth and his loathing of silly stereotypes, I can't help envisioning what the personal John Lennon's take would have been on Beatles "tribute-bands" had he lived !... But that's another story.
My point being : the Beatles always stood for staying away from conventions, away from any "group mentality" and away from any flock of sheeps.
One must NOT forget that before becoming themselves The Establishment in many ways, The Beatles and especially John Lennon always stood for "Political Incorrectness", always stood for "non-conventional", always spoke for all the underdogs and always proposed new paths to their audience. The Beatles were always in themselves a world apart from all the rest.
Some might say it seems today they have become The Rest.
The Beatles were the very opposite of a corporate company and the very opposite of a "formula-type band". And they spoke a language which was the very opposite of a Corporate Language.
It was a language of truth, and most of all, one of sincerity.
The instinctive language of sincerity. And I believe we must remember this.
... However big Paul and Ringo will always remain in my heart and however vast my gratitude will always be towards their talent and genius, I can't help but feel a bit depressed when I realise that all that's left of my sweet beloved Beatles today is an empty and purely commercial Macca acting like he's on automatic pilot, telling the exact same three Beatle anedotes litterally everywhere he goes, and one freshly died-haired lost Ringo going "peace and love peace and love peace and love" whenever asked about anything, like some ludicrous robot with a bug he can't shake off... I mean, really ?...
I personally think the Beatles deserve better than that... But let's say I'm just a nasty idealist.
Like John was.
MY OTHER BEATLES-RELATED CHANNELS :
Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles historian bit.ly/3Nf2yYg
The Beatles Ideal Discography bit.ly/3z6CGZ0
The Beatles Ideal Filmography bit.ly/3CWSGxH

[@thebeatlesotherwise]

*IMPORTANT NOTE : since this video presents audio and visual elements whose copyright I do not own, it is of course NOT monetized and was uploaded for educational purpose only and the pleasure of Beatles fans and connoisseurs, with love and without any money-seeking nor copyright infringement intention.*

[@juandiegorojas664]

I love how beatles fans always help each other, whether there is a personal benefit or not.

[@johnthompson478]

The generational bullshit has accumulated already. So by to hem time we come into conscious criticism with it . Say like ,Jesus it's already 30 years of your life gone. It's a tremendous task to change people's heads . Heads up to Lennon for trying he did yeoman service. Thanks John you did well, the critics never really got you. They made you a mathyr and that's decent

[@petercrick-y6t]

Thank you for your time today for putting john's revelations on and yoko's .what a great day that they had.

[@delainepep22]

He was such a brilliant thinker. I could listen to him talk all day. John is not stupid. So wise and my fav Beatle ever. Just love this beautiful genius. So young to think how he did.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Not Stupid but was always unhappy.

[@delainepep22]

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES sure he was happy with Sean and you could tell he mellowed out. Still a genious. Most people who are like that have a troubled life and we all know John had that and didn't know how to function. He I am pretty sure he suffered from ptsd from his childhood which I have. Then severe depression

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Well he smoked and used Drugs. He brain was fried at this point of his life

[@claudiaedwards5138]

Ignorance/ stupidity is a bliss so enlightened /wise would be ___ . My guess is unhappiness comes with the territory.. wisdom and awareness isn’t cheap .. I assume

[@delainepep22]

@claudiaedwards5138 I have my own opinions. Actually we don't know how he felt is and none of our damn buisness. So don't assume stuff. We're you there? Nope didn't think so

[@ScoochCubing]

I love how John's 'interviews' always feels more like a casual chat rather than an interview

[@samuelmath1723]

I agree with you. John was able to master the interviews by himself, and it is something we don't see quite often in interviews.

[@davidallen346]

He is a true Renaissance man. a spokesman for the generation male frame of mind

[@gartnait1]

Hes the most interesting person in music history.

[@tjcint]

I agree with you. An incredibly gifted man who had an impact on mankind few ever have ...

[@hobbes4583]

This interviewer is actually better than a lot of pros. He's not afraid to let Lennon wander through his thoughts, doesn't feel the need to jump in and direct him, even lets Lennon "charm" him a bit. The soul and energy of Lennon comes through. Obviously kudos to Lennon to grant this candid fearless interview on the first place.

[@shokuchideirdrecarrigan7402]

It’s 2023 and we’re not groovy, John. I am sorry. You tried. Thanks. Your music still speaks volumes.

[@reefk8876]

You are groovy dude… never doubt the groove 🤘

[@JC-jr9hw]

Why do you think they killed him? His vision for the world clashed with their vision of division and endless war.

[@dongenovese5169]

I’m proper Groovy 🤩

[@petercrick-y6t]

Grovey just means that your with it

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

I met John Lennon in New York, at what turned out to be his favorite cafe, the Cafe Fortuna. There was no room inside so I was offered the patio and was seated in the corner with two couples on either side. I’m a cartoonist and was on deadline, somewhat in a hurry. The guy next to me was smoking and the smoke wafted past me every few seconds. To make matters worse, I could sense him looking at what I was doing…cartooning. Suddenly, I was in a cloud of his smoke and I turned to him …irritated. He had dark sunglasses and he sarcastically said “Sorry Senator!”. I turned back to my work, a little shaken. I knew that voice…that nose (he had a hat). It was John Lennon! My god, I just offended John Lennon! He was with an Asian woman but it was not Yoko. What astonished me was that he was so pale…so thin and a bit gaunt. Much later I discovered that he had loved cartooning as a teen. What I should’ve done is apologize and maybe get on my knees, groveling! “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!” He would be dead in 3 months …

[@thebeatlesotherwise]

*He was with an asian woman who wasn't Yoko ??... I can't imagine John having a coffee out alone with one of Yoko's niece really... Wonder who that must have been... But thanks for that nice anecdote Christopher !*

[@stephenfisch615]

I would guess that the Asian woman was May Pang, the Lennons’ assistant who had an affair with John at Yoko’s insistence during The Lost Weekend.

[@reefk8876]

John’s ‘I believe’ era Such a brilliant mind

[@johnsain]

"I don't believe in Jesus,.....I just believe in me...Yoko and me" - John O Lennon

[@charwest9449]

37:20 So here's John at Kenwood, his marital home with Cynthia and Julian, now supplanted by Yoko, disdaining all his material things, "the house on a stinking hill" 12 cars, and 40 suits. He's saying that he just wants a little plot of land where he can grow macrobiotic food. That was Dec 68. Yet mere months later, summer 69, with Yoko he buys the monstrous 72 acre Tittenhurst Estate near Ascot with a mansion and several houses on the grounds and they spend an equal amount renovating it just so. A stickler for decorating Yoko demanded white carpets throughout, only white and black flowers (they had to make do with dark purple because black didn't exist in nature) and a pond surrounded with cherry trees. In the next few years, they added numerous Dakota apartments, scads more real estate, cattle, art, designer furs and clothes, and their homes were constantly filled with decorators, astrologers, art advisors for art investments (not conceptual art of the sort Yoko had been peddling). John's wild material bonanza sadly lasted right up until he was murdered. So much for the little plot of land where he could grow macrobiotic food. So much for conceptual art. Suddenly it all morphed into investments and growing his money to become richer than Paul McCartney. Ironically, it seems Paul's lifestyle was closer to John's ideal.

[@subg8858]

Wah wah

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

Let's look at your life now. What have you done.

[@charwest9449]

@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh I'm talking about his either being a hypocrite, incredibly confused, or misled by that greedy wife of his. Obviously neither of you is capable of discussing that.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

@@charwest9449 Yes, I know, I've seen your name on several threads constantly bashing Lennon. I want to know what you've actually accomplished in your own life other than pointing ignorant critical fingers at other people you never knew, some with arguably tremendous talent and creativity. It's ok, I think it's pretty clear who the hypocrite is here. Do better.

[@YoureMyBlueSky2022]

@@charwest9449 Lots of hypocrisy and contradiction in John's life, just like in everyone's life. Still interesting to listen to this snapshot in time, and how peace is still elusive in the US and in the world.

[@jefffoster7105]

He,s talking about the food we eat being rubbish and we know just how true this is today but this was decades ago, even the chickens and animals dying in fear and we now have brands of eggs advertising the freedom of the chickens 🐔 fair trade. The man was well ahead of the curve. Legend.

[@patriciaeddy7629]

John and the guys achieved everything he set out to do by the ripe old age of twenty-five. He never needed to do another thing to prove himself or his group. The Beatles changed the world and life would never be the same again.😊

[@Yidspurs]

John was very intelligent and was always searching for answers which we all should do. He was always the most vocal. There is a lot of focus on Paul being a good songwriter but John was just as good if not better. I bet he would have been into hip hop. On another interview he said he was into a new sound of music called reggae which hadn't really gone out to the masses in the UK yet

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

What makes you think a musician and songwriter would appreciate the genre that dismisses musicianship and songwriting?

[@erickraven7161]

@@ThisBirdHasFlown Does it really dismiss musicianship and songwriting when a lot of hip hop songs includes (samples) melodies, rhythms, and sometimes lyrics into the songs? In some cases those "musical" elements are the foundation for the rapping element of the hip hop song. Regarding the songwriting aspect, are not rap lyrics songwriting? They rhyme and communicate something, it's just usually at a faster pace than "traditional" singer/songwriters' communication of lyrics. Doesn't Dylan "rap" in "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleedin')"?

[@Rowlph8888]

@@ThisBirdHasFlown Because he was a maverick, Poet and a wordsmith,, Before he Because was a musician. He was on record stating that his favourite songs were the ones that stood as poetry, without the music.You also always loved developing intuitive, spontaneous phrases, off-the-cuff. John was always positive about other artists and anything new - Very flexible in his tastes *Lennon would have loved Hip-hop and would definitely have got involved. He would have spun it away from the gangster side. Yoko already mentioned decades ago, that he would have loved it and would have got involved. I think he would have done Something like what Kanye has done,before Kanye

[@3hooks781]

Tsk tsk. kzbin.infoUgkxXxTtRO9YxcXciljqtKpdObeUZejZ6o6t

[@petercrick-y6t]

Thank you for your assependace and the service you provided to me it's your own words that I will be able to make a difference in my mind when things get tough and yoko also with lots of love Pete

[@danielmoore7342]

At about 40 minutes in John reminds me of the Edwin Arlington Robinson poem about Richard Cory (Simon and Garfunkel used it as a song basis). I think it's amazingly true. The richest person I know (great gobs of cash) has kids that tore his family apart over money, and completely trashed the "Golden Years" the man worked so hard for all his life. An overabundance of wealth KILLS happiness.

[@thebeatlesotherwise]

*Pretty true indeed...*

[@ADayInTheLifeofMrsPerkins]

This is precious 💕. Thank you to whom ever saved these tapes I appreciate it so❤. John has a simple but very complex soul. Notice NOTHING IS PAST TENSE. His MUSIC,POETRY,LIFE has touched so many and will continue to do so. Of the many nuances of John, the One I admire is his ability to admit he is wrong. He is only human afterall. #9 Dream.

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

Great musician and vocalist.

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

@@topazthecat8704 Yes, he was. Too bad hate ruined his career and life. He was definitely a progressive thinker, I'm not saying I totally agree with Imagine, mainly because it was such a Hit, but he was great.

[@THECLARENCES]

Long live John’s memory. xoxo The Clarences

[@rtward9]

let's steal clarences great ideas and kick him out of the band.

[@stewartcohen-jones2949]

Yes it’s sprinkled with the naivety of a man in his mid twenties but by god there’s bucket loads of wisdom and intellect here. John was searching for meaning and ready to wrestle any angel that came his way whereas Paul , George and Ringo played it safe and tipped their caps to the powers above. John will always be one of two central music figures of the 60’s. Him and Bob Dylan were without doubt the most imitated individuals of that era. Not just musically but as people. The amount of men walking around and speaking with a Lennon affectation in their voice was inescapable and to be honest a bit annoying, but the power The Beatles and especially Lennon had over young male youth was akin to a mass cult.

[@delaroache]

Lennon & Dylan are truth seekers by any means necessary

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

Indie musicians still try to sing like him. They always fail, though. End up sounding silly and nasally. One dimensional.

[@rabblerousin8981]

Deride Paul and Ringo all you want, but without the popular appeal we wouldn’t have revolution 9 or the funkier things they opened us up to.

[@aliceterry108]

I'm delighted to find this channel. Thank you for all this and the other channels too. Wow, you're way cool. Thank you a million times!

[@Gigiroo]

The older I get the younger he stays. He was 28 here. I’m 56 now lol we were the same age once 😢

[@rc6981]

Fantastic.Good interview man.keep them coming. ⚡TCB

[@Tomrogersmusic-]

Thanks for the upload - some great nuggets of wisdom here.

[@adamfindlay7091]

No one save Christ is as eloquent as the incomparable J.O. Lennon. Timeless❤️yet timely. Always Lennon sought the truth.

[@urasam2]

That’s a very odd comment

[@SoundSpirals]

Can’t think of any interview with Paul as philosophical as this one.

[@tjcint]

Paul is nowhere near as deep as John.

[@subg8858]

One thing I learned from Get Back doc was that the Beatles ate a lot of toast

[@loosilu]

Paul has been singlehandedly keeping the Beatles music in the public eye for forty years, which has kept the money coming in to all of the Beatles estates. Every beatle family member owes him a debt.

[@delainepep22]

Every Beatle family has kept their music alive. Yoko kept John's music alive George family also kept George's music alive. Ringo always is keeping them alive. They don't owe Paul anything. He outlived 2 beatles. John started the band. He was murdererd for him and his music. George was almost stabbed to death. Did Paul reach out. Who knows. Also John's sons have kept them alive too also George's son. I think Paul has to do it to not be depressed

[@jeffreyroedel9804]

Quite right. And all those Lennon-McCartney songs that Paul plays live benefit John's estate as well.

[@loosilu]

@@delainepep22 Ringo plays small clubs, the other families do nothing. Paul keeps it alive for stadiums of fans. He has never stopped. He doesn't need the money. He doesn't need to play for 3 hours. He does it because he LOVES IT

[@loosilu]

@@delainepep22 They owe Paul a LOT. He's the only one who has never stopped performing, which gives money to all of them. Yes of course Paul reached out. Both of John's sons absolutely worship Paul.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

@@loosilu Worship? Try again fanboy.

[@elham5502]

Thanks for this 🤍

[@justinhamilton8647]

Thank you for all this, where do you find all this great recordings, and no unnecessary editing too just great

[@marcyfan-tz4wj]

i have obsessed over john since i was 3 and didn't know this existed. thank you.

[@bobbytropo2314]

12:30 is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard when I look at the world today. Never before have humans been so connected yet divided.

[@constantreader7944]

Amazing that we are talking about the same exact subjects. Inequality, capitalism, humanity, suffering. Also, I adore John and I adore Yoko, but let’s also recall here, that they were tripping a lot on acid, they were also dabbling in heroin. You can always hear that tone in John’s voice. I wish a techie could take this audio and clean it up a bit. It’s quite good source material.

[@seanflannick9215]

Seriously he is talking about quantum physics and is so right on how stuff works, thought waves etc. GENIUS!!!

[@jnagarya519]

Can a non-genius identify genius?

[@stratovation1474]

This channel is a find. So is this interview. Reminds me of hearing the white album for the first time. The comments about Paul and Ringo are cheap and mean tho. Ringo almost didn't survive childhood...

[@lenalennon8746]

Thanks for your work. ✌❤❤🕊✌

[@mayag224]

I don’t get the criticism that Paul is doing something wrong or being overly commercial because he tells the same stories. He’s asked the same questions over and over again. If he started giving different answers to each of them, THEN I would be concerned. Plus, he doesn’t owe it to the public to dredge up demons from sixty years ago because we crave drama. Separating the public self from the private self isn’t an insult to the Beatles - it’s healthy! Plus let’s not pretend John was always 100% honest in what he said. Just because he was disposed to the “I will say whatever is on my mind and then change my mind five seconds later” mindset doesn’t make him more truthful. And he was clearly very good at PR. Look, overall I agree that since the 90s or so, Paul has definitely had a clear public persona that he is putting forward in interviews and things. I just struggle to see what he could be doing differently now that would appease people besides just being less productive and being interviewed less.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

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[@tomasgrounauer6180]

Great stuff. Thank you for uploading it!

[@constantreader7944]

I think when you see John in the period, he gives off such a Kurt Cobain vibe. It’s a miracle we didn’t lose him years earlier. He really could have died so easily during that period.

[@shaunmcgee4204]

John Lennon loved life, despite his perceived pain. John never would’ve un-alived himself. It was obviously too much for Kurt Cobain.

[@reefk8876]

They’re similar, both idealistic and anti materialistic. John seems more defined and sharper though.

[@patriciaeddy7629]

There were so many in authority that despised his quick wit and his drive for change. John Won Out !

[@joebeamish]

He was a survivor, as John himself liked to say. Not self destructive at all.

[@cactaceous]

As much as I was a fan of Cobain’s when I was 12 years old and Nevermind came out, I can now with adult perspective realize he may have been a very immature, over sensitive, greatly confused person with a genetic chemical imbalance or personality disorder. Lennon felt real abandonment, loneliness and pain from an early age that made him have to adapt and be of stronger material. His aunt Mimi also didn’t coddle him and educated him to be smart and strong. Cobain was self righteous and opinionated but not in an intellectually capable way. Lennon also learned tools to keep him seeing the bigger picture. Specially through LSD, mysticism and spirituality teachings he sought plus he was always seeking how to be better. He was also into nutrition and health even when he was doing heroin.

[@petercrick-y6t]

Yoko laughing in the background speaks volumes

[@papacaloducaeric1379]

Beatles for two love that channel ! Congrat !

[@LucyLennon20]

"Everybody's talkin' 'bout Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism, This-ism, That-ism, ism, ism, ism ... All we are sayin' is Give Peace a Chance 🎶 Hit it!

[@petercrick-y6t]

Hari Hari Hari love and peace

[@petercrick-y6t]

It's a pity people didn't give peace a chance what I do is just let peace live in me and my way of life

[@LucyLennon20]

@@petercrick-y6t 🎶 Isn't it a pity? Isn't it a shame? How we break each other's hearts 🎶 - G. Harrison

[@petercrick-y6t]

@LucyLennon20 you have a heart of gold john love does live in the way he predicted yoko is the only person who really knows how much I love the people it's the way I am

[@petercrick-y6t]

@@LucyLennon20 I mean that yoko new how much john cared

[@woowah32]

A great soul, songwriter and thinker but ultimately also naive to think we can all live in some idealistic utopia.

[@owenmartin3307]

In fairness he does say there is no such thing as complete happiness.

[@vicentematricardi3596]

Gracias por poner subtitulos !!!!!!🖐🖐👍👍👍👍

[@clendenenjames8804]

Brother JOHN LENNON WAS A STRONG WILL MAN ALL OF HIS LIFE WAS A BEAT DOWN BUT OUT OF IT ALL JOHN LENNON STILL ABLE TO PULL THROUGH IT FIINDLY TO A CRAZY WITH A DAMN DAMN PISTOL TO STOP HIS MIGHT, BUT THIS 70 OLE MAN STILL LOVE HIS MUSIC 🎶

[@clendenenjames8804]

Yes my friend, John lennon was before his time and a will that couldn't be broke all the music that he gave the world just outstanding I'll never forget brother John lennon

[@jennifferlidbury6882]

The truth from John as if it's today x it's the same for me today as then ,no acid for me ,just the truth x God bless x

[@eileenworth7862]

Transcription, captioning would be helpful. John is clear, interviewer not so much.

[@BeesWaxMinder]

The built in captioning option on KZbin seems to work okay here but I’m only a little way in…!

[@jk4675]

would be, but very time consuming without money

[@goodbababadbaba6370]

Listening to this I'm convinced John if still alive would have had the first jabs but then awoken and be speaking out about the ☠️💉and new world order to the world

[@LaurenPassarelli]

This is probably from actual tape and it played too fast, the pitch is higher than John's voice. Pitch shift it down and it will really sound great.

[@Rachel-rg064]

KZbin has a dial to slow down the speed in the top right hand corner of the screen....this also takes away the high pitch to an extent with slowed speech.

[@futuregenerationz]

It seems to me like John microdosed acid for weeks at a time, and it really worked for him. Yoko was his safe person. John may have accidentally grabbed the wrong pill at a session, but he had the acid with him. I don't have knowledge of this, but rather just listening to him talk. I've been there a few times.

[@Bigeazy87]

Your theory is 1000% plausible. He is very stream of consciousness here. Sometimes too prescient.

[@jnagarya519]

@@Bigeazy87 He was often stream-of conscious before doing acid. I've seen too many acid casualties to let your naive comments go without challenge.

[@Bigeazy87]

@@jnagarya519 Wow, naive! I was 11 when Lennon died, cried when I heard about it during Monday Night Football, have every Beatles and Lennon album and many bootlegs, have seen many interviews he did starting in 1963 up to playboy and RKO on his last day. And my kid's middle name is John. Please do not lecture me on anything related to John Lennon. His wives and bandmates know more about him than I do. I'm not giving YOU that credit!

[@jnagarya519]

@@Bigeazy87 I was 15 when "The Beatles" hit the US. And I first heard them on Chicago radio in October, 1963. I became a writer, beginning in 1965 when in high school, in part because of Lennon. Yes: Lennon was politically naive: just listen to "Sometime In New York". I was involved in the politics of the time, knew Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and taught David Peel his first few basic chords. I was 20 then. I was 32 when Lennon was murdered.

[@chancethadood]

i’m convinced he macrodosed for at least a year, possibly two.

[@w1lf1ewoo]

It needs a bit of audio enhancement or subtitles , but great find !

[@TheJoehines]

I love where John says “People are going to be writing about us for the rest of our lives and after we’re dead!” Well, in just a bit more than a month, John will have been dead for 43 years (3 more years than he actually lived) and people still are! Case in point - ‘the last Beatles song ever’ comes out tomorrow and the internet is flooded with stories about it. RIP, John and George. Hope you guys are jamming up there in that great rock and roll band in heaven!

[@petercrick-y6t]

Just remember what john said in revolution,How we would like to change your head shoby doo upp

[@joebeamish]

It’s weird to think that this guy would go on to make Double Fantasy, which is competent, but banal.

[@subg8858]

42:13 Enter the Secretary of the Ministry of Silly Walks.

[@petercrick-y6t]

About what john said about suicide

[@guzylad5]

He get the "they're gonna crucify me" from here?

[@thebeatlesotherwise]

*Who knows... Maybe !*

[@elizabethgode1763]

😘❤🥰😘❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Fab4Forever]

I worship John, Paul, and the whole Beatles body of work, but NO veggie crap for me. No "India". Meat, ciggies, booze..for me. Till the day I die. 😁😄😃

[@samhailess]

awesome ! rock on ! 😁😄😃

[@jk4675]

why do you worship people

[@LaMYsteriosa87]

Absolutely agree.

[@staceykeeley4219]

Which will be next week if you're not careful! Only joking, I'm the same except delete the booze and insert the weed.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

Meat's fine - booze and cigs, well they will just speed up the process.

[@petercrick-y6t]

What a great idea to have to live your own life in the same way that you have no intention to use anybody. john said capitalism don't make sense. That's my bag as aswell

[@ploppill34]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌️

[@tubepets8055]

I hear a bass guitar in this.

[@LdevArt]

john advocating veganism-but no evidence he changed his diet accordingly..

[@jefffoster7105]

The silly talk from activists that talk about breaking down systems with no idea what or how to replace said systems. Using Russia as an example of a non capitalist Eutopia ffs 🙄 😄 🤣 😂. Hilarious really. John talks sense , what a man eh.

[@johnholmesinchesahead2347]

He was remarkably ignorant regarding world history. His view on the USSR is purely Bourgeois. His view is ignorant and racist. Interesting - as part of the Beatles his own programming was transcended - until toward the end. He says nothing about the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan across Asia during the 1930s and 1940s. He possesses the viewpoints a Bourgeois multimillionaire should have. Shame. The Soviets lost 41 million men, women and children during WWII for the freedom he is now exercising. Cliche.

[@thebeatlesotherwise]

*... You are absolutely right but... But let's not forget something that most people reflecting on Lennon today tend to forget : that was a very young man. Lennon was 27 at that time, and this was 1968... Let's not forget we're talking about a very young, very immature, very scarcely educated man here... What was interesting in Lennon was his intellectual alertnes and the impetuousity of his thoughts. But the man was indeed very under-educated and most of all very immature because very young and over-privileged.*

[@subg8858]

If that were the case, why didn’t any of eastern europe get any of that freedom Russians supposedly died for under totalitarian Soviet regime

[@subg8858]

Tell me how many millions of Russians and Ukranians were killed by the Soviet regime before WWII even began

[@tjcint]

*He was not a historian.* He was a musical genius. I think it better to appreciate the happiness and joy he gave literally millions of people than to get picky about something that was not what he was born to do. It is like picking on someone for the colour of their socks. Totally irrelevant.

[@b.g.5869]

Inaudible

[@michaelsmart95]

Was probably stoned. But so what

[@williamtynertyner1425]

Funny, Chicago has become just what he said it would.

[@revrotunda3206]

But the baddies he talked about are in all large metro cities, even in the city he lived in. Aside from walking around freely in & around the Dakota, the baddies were there including his murderer. Otherwise, the sheltering his wealth provided him from not living in poorer & inner city neighborhoods wasn’t enough to keep him alive.

[@subg8858]

The Dakota couldn’t be any more inner city

[@jnagarya519]

We saw how politically naive Lennon was with his "Sometime In New York" LP. And banker's daughter Yoko? Please.

[@MIB_63]

He was naive for sure but at least he had good intentions and used his fame to promote peace and agitate against injustice. So-called celebrities today only care about being politically correct and about how many likes they get on SoMe.

[@jnagarya519]

@@MIB_63 Yes, he had good intentions. So did many on the far-Left, but there were destructive results. The far-Left included Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, who I knew. They instigated all the havoc at the Chicago Convention in 1968. Their "street theater" chaos got Nixon elected. They wanted to get Lennon to do a concert at the Republican Convention. That lead to the efforts to deport Lennon. The road to Hell is paved with honorable mentions.

[@kend1964]

Everybody here is so much wiser 🤪

[@MIB_63]

@@kend1964 Troll detected.

[@jnagarya519]

@@MIB_63 I was there. I leave trolling to the uninformed amateurs.

[@philfletcher3434]

Anything with the Japanese poisoned dwarf in it is off limits to me. Sorry.