The Beatles
I grew up with the Beatles. They were part of my life. I remember the day I was told about John being shot. Incredibly sad.
When in New York we had to visit the Dakota where he was shot and the memorial to him in the park.
I often imagine. If only…
This is one of my favourite songs of theirs. Everything changes my world.
I hate Christmas songs – sickly and annoying.
This one was a bit different.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were castigated and ridiculed for their bed-ins, bag-ins, acorns and publicity hype. But I greatly admire them. I think they were greatly misunderstood.
They had more money and fame than they needed. They decided to try to do something positive with their fame. They decided to put all their efforts into stopping the stupid, illegal, cruel war in Vietnam.
They used the power of their fame to draw attention to the war. What could be much better than that?
How rare is it for someone with that wealth, power and influence to attempt to do something positive?
Oh how we desperately need some new singer singing stuff with real venom. I’m fed up with these lying politicians, greedy bankers and vicious despots.
All I want is the truth now!!
I’m sick and tired!! Trump!!! Johnson!!! Bolsonaro!! Populist liars!!!
I’m sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just give me some truth
I’ve had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just give me some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is going to Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope
I’m sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama’s little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just give me some truth, now
I’ve had enough of watching scenes
With schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth, now-now
Just give me some truth
His best album – raw and brutal.
This album is so raw. A bit of isolation for isolation.
How much do we need people to speak out, protest and ask the questions?? Where’s today’s Lennon??
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This album was so raw – and God – that still works for me. Lennon at his best!
As the medieval fanatics of the Taliban advance into the cities threatening to take over the country and throw everyone back into the stone-age it made me think of this song.
These religious thugs want to force their distorted views on to everyone else. They are ignorant imbeciles who believe in a abhorrent philosophy. Religion is bad enough but this takes it to a different level.
They want to ban music.
They want to destroy art and architecture.
They want to erase history.
But worst of all they want to dominate and completely subjugate half of humanity – women. They want to chain them in the house as slaves. They want to prevent them being educating, working or assuming any position of power. They insist they had to be covered from head to foot in robes and veils. They want them obeying their husbands, churning out babies and doing menial work. They wish to treat women worse than dogs.
If that isn’t worth opposing I don’t know what is.
John Lennon recognised how bad things were for women in the Western world – let alone this barbaric idiocy. He deliberately used the word nigger because of the power that was in it.
Fifty years on woman is still the nigger of the world and in Afghanistan it’s about to get a lot lot worse!
Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes, she is, think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it, do something about it