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monty
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That was played on the box last night, Liverpool Nativity. My daughter was gobsmacked because I could sing it without a hitch, one dad felt sooooo cool
Vastly overrated though.
monty
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Why we have John Lennon airport I don't know, left the city, left the country and never came back. Ken Dodd would have been better.
Love his music though but he missed McCartney more than McCartney missed him..........such is life.
Suits, yes snot the pretentious bitch
QI Interesting moment
Before meeting John Lennon, Yoko was married to a US artist, Arthur Cox, sometimes called himself Michael. Her one claim to fame was that she assisted him in a compilation book showing unnamed celebrities bare arses. FACT
Love his music though but he missed McCartney more than McCartney missed him..........such is life.
Suits, yes snot the pretentious bitch
QI Interesting moment
Before meeting John Lennon, Yoko was married to a US artist, Arthur Cox, sometimes called himself Michael. Her one claim to fame was that she assisted him in a compilation book showing unnamed celebrities bare arses. FACT
So that's where Rob Japan is. Any idea how we get him out of the telly?
monty
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Welton Toffee
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Lennon is a hero.
Although Instant Karma was imo his best solo effort
Although Instant Karma was imo his best solo effort
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neonleon
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Let me tell you a story...
sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
When I was eight and Lennon was murdered in New York, my dad took me and my brother into the city centre. Outside St Georges was the biggest mass of people I've ever seen congregate into one area in the pool (there were people crawling over the lions and up the lamposts). There was an incredible mass outpouring of grief, coupled with a desire to celebrate the life and passing of a truly remarkable man. People were crying, singing songs (give peace a chance), holding candle lit vigils, shouting slogans (this was the start of the 80's so people still gave [Poor language removed] about stuff other than money. The rest of the eighties didn't care about anything other than money).
For me, the moment was an epiphany. It was an understanding of what it was like to be from Liverpool, whether red or blue, our grief was communal. Four likely lads whose imagination, music, style, scouse wit and ideas had taken the world not just of popular music, but of human consciousness by storm - and one of them had died. And we were all marking his passing. A man who had stood for peace, had been violently murdered. Same thing happened to Ghandi, but this was a fellow Liverpudlian. I'll never forget to my dying days, and when I think of the community spirit of Liverpool, and what defines us as a city above and beyond history, I think of that moment, when the people of all races, colours, teams, classes and mentalities gathered together to mark the passing of a great man.
He has helped put Liverpool on the map, and to this day, how many working class scousers benefit from the tourist trade of beatles tours, hotel staff serving tourists, another assorted beatles commerce.
Living in an age of faux celebrity and false prophets, I can't believe people would so readily put down a true son of Liverpool town. A bona fide legend. A working class hero.
I could tell you how many number ones he helped write or co-write. But I shouldn't have to on an everton forum.
I'm not angry anymore with the posters here. I just feel pity for you. I continue to enjoy his music. I don't understand the kind of crab like petty mentality necessary to desire to defame such a talent.Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city, but its inhabitants have always been filled with wanderlust. It is not money, it is the Liverpool gene. (and perhaps that bit of irish in us) I have travelled extensively over the world to many countries. I have been to a country that doesn't even have a mcdonalds ((this is traveller code for somewhere really exotic). You can find scousers everywhere though, in every port on every major city. Are they all traitors? What about the people on this forum, who are originally from Liverpool and now find themselves estranged from our fair city?
Sometimes when you love something you let it free.
Oh and as for the yoko is synonymous with katona. Please. Yoko was a member of a conceptual art movement name of fluxus. Katona would have to look the word conceptual up in a dictionary. She made him happy. We never owned him, I was gutted the beatles split up cos they were the soundtrack to my childhood - but then lennons solo stuff was great. Macca's was good as well. Both had patchy periods, musically.
Not saying Lennon was perfect, but who the [Poor language removed] wants perfect heroes? Nietzsche was a misogynist. Bukowski an alcoholic, Ginsberg a pederast, the list goes on and on.
Lennon was a great man. But in the interests of peace, I will not give the [Poor language removed] dressing down that monty and suits deserve.
glad the youngsters on this site (excuse ridiculously patronising tone) are full of wonder for the mans talents. The bitterness of some of the more regular posters on all things glorious hasn't completely taken over their souls.
sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
When I was eight and Lennon was murdered in New York, my dad took me and my brother into the city centre. Outside St Georges was the biggest mass of people I've ever seen congregate into one area in the pool (there were people crawling over the lions and up the lamposts). There was an incredible mass outpouring of grief, coupled with a desire to celebrate the life and passing of a truly remarkable man. People were crying, singing songs (give peace a chance), holding candle lit vigils, shouting slogans (this was the start of the 80's so people still gave [Poor language removed] about stuff other than money. The rest of the eighties didn't care about anything other than money).
For me, the moment was an epiphany. It was an understanding of what it was like to be from Liverpool, whether red or blue, our grief was communal. Four likely lads whose imagination, music, style, scouse wit and ideas had taken the world not just of popular music, but of human consciousness by storm - and one of them had died. And we were all marking his passing. A man who had stood for peace, had been violently murdered. Same thing happened to Ghandi, but this was a fellow Liverpudlian. I'll never forget to my dying days, and when I think of the community spirit of Liverpool, and what defines us as a city above and beyond history, I think of that moment, when the people of all races, colours, teams, classes and mentalities gathered together to mark the passing of a great man.
He has helped put Liverpool on the map, and to this day, how many working class scousers benefit from the tourist trade of beatles tours, hotel staff serving tourists, another assorted beatles commerce.
Living in an age of faux celebrity and false prophets, I can't believe people would so readily put down a true son of Liverpool town. A bona fide legend. A working class hero.
I could tell you how many number ones he helped write or co-write. But I shouldn't have to on an everton forum.
I'm not angry anymore with the posters here. I just feel pity for you. I continue to enjoy his music. I don't understand the kind of crab like petty mentality necessary to desire to defame such a talent.Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city, but its inhabitants have always been filled with wanderlust. It is not money, it is the Liverpool gene. (and perhaps that bit of irish in us) I have travelled extensively over the world to many countries. I have been to a country that doesn't even have a mcdonalds ((this is traveller code for somewhere really exotic). You can find scousers everywhere though, in every port on every major city. Are they all traitors? What about the people on this forum, who are originally from Liverpool and now find themselves estranged from our fair city?
Sometimes when you love something you let it free.
Oh and as for the yoko is synonymous with katona. Please. Yoko was a member of a conceptual art movement name of fluxus. Katona would have to look the word conceptual up in a dictionary. She made him happy. We never owned him, I was gutted the beatles split up cos they were the soundtrack to my childhood - but then lennons solo stuff was great. Macca's was good as well. Both had patchy periods, musically.
Not saying Lennon was perfect, but who the [Poor language removed] wants perfect heroes? Nietzsche was a misogynist. Bukowski an alcoholic, Ginsberg a pederast, the list goes on and on.
Lennon was a great man. But in the interests of peace, I will not give the [Poor language removed] dressing down that monty and suits deserve.
glad the youngsters on this site (excuse ridiculously patronising tone) are full of wonder for the mans talents. The bitterness of some of the more regular posters on all things glorious hasn't completely taken over their souls.
monty
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News flash, Liverpool was a truly great city long before a certain J Lennon was born FACT. If you were gutted when the beatles broke up, where you in the womb. I lived through those times, music, drugs rock and roll so with due respect Leon the fact that you had a personal epihany doesn't make the guy any greater, he was happier baking bread in New york than visiting his city of his birth. He always said he would not pay taxes in this country because it paid fot neuclear weapons, didn't exactly buy sweeties in the USA. Give me Mc Cartney any time, the Lennon/Ono bubble should be burst, it is a myth.
neonleon
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its "were" by the way. And I was gutted when I was old enough to comprehend (that they were no longer together). The Beatles and the music of Macca, Lennon et al. didn't belong to your generation, or the people of Liverpool but to everyone. McCartney doesn't live in the city either(though I'm sure he has a token address) so what's your [Poor language removed] point..? You conveniently ignore the fact that Liverpool has always had a transient population - as a major port, nexus of travel and city of commerce (and one of the epicentres of the slave trade - one of the not so great historical moments, that the past wealth of the city was founded upon).
But [Poor language removed] everyone who doesn't still live within ten miles of the mersey eh?
Its this territorial attitude I most abhor in people like yourself that have (seemingly) never left their own settee and seen something of the world but take twisted solace in ripping apart their betters with snide comments on this forum.
tell everyone on this forum they are worth nothing because they don't live in Liverpool anymore.
Never said Lennon was perfect, but he was a better man than me and thee.
As for epiphanies, you are right, it's mine alone. I'm younger than you, so my opinion obviously counts for a whole lot less. But I shared that feeling with a hell of a lot of people that night.
You know, what the poignant myth really is? The lie all children are told? Its one of the worst realisations in life, is that wisdom rarely aggregates with age - stubbornness, bitterness and cynicism are more common.
I hope your personal belief that Lennon wasn't a big deal makes you happy.
I'm happy with my myths thanks...
(you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one)
monty
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What can I say to that rant, I lived for some years many miles from Liverpool so that part of your theory is popped, have a happy christmas, which again is something that annoys you and grow up because the only time I object to Lennon is when people like you glorify him to an extent that is unjustified and unhealthy
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