Just Strum Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 I was bartending that night. What? You are one of the old farts like a number of us here. I had you pegged for 30'ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johno Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 What? You are one of the old farts like a number of us here. I had you pegged for 30'ish I was 26 years old in 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Chico Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I was 26 years old in 1980. I wasn't even a thought in 1980... GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stig Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I was a senior in high school when he died, and a huge Beatles fan. I was devastated. If he was alive today, he'd be writing his third straight album full of songs *****ing about how much he's paying Yoko in alimony and child support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Strum Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 I was 26 years old in 1980. Hey, were the same age, so you are young. :D/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron G Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Aside from my own shock and horror that day, I was particularly struck by the reaction of my supervisor at the time. He was a big ruddy Irish/American from the rough, working-class Port Richmond neighborhood of Philly - a person who I least expected to give a hoot. He couldn't hold back the tears. I then realized how big a deal John's murder was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prozac86 Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1679838.ece ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1679838.ece ... Trashing John Lennon's memory has become something of a cottage industry. The allegations made in this new book seem marginally less atrocious given the fact that Lennon was not raised by his parents. If he had lusted for Aunt Mimi, then I'd be concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Trashing John Lennon's memory has become something of a cottage industry. The allegations made in this new book seem marginally less atrocious given the fact that Lennon was not raised by his parents. If he had lusted for Aunt Mimi' date=' then I'd be concerned.[/quote'] Yeah, we love to build them up (beyond all recognition) then tear them down/apart! Humans!..."Not Logical, Captain!" Given John's complexity, the age he was (14, when hormones are raging) when this "alleged" incident and fantasy took place, and his mother seeming more like a close, trusted friend...and how he would (often) seem to verbalize his every thought, and damn the consequences....I don't really think it's any big deal. There are all kinds of studies, papers, theories, even historical accounts of/on "incest" mother/son, father/daughter thing. Many, in fact, seem to play out in "real" life...more than we might have imagined. I'm not condoning it, obviously, but it happens. He didn't really Do anything, apparently. So, the social, religious, or other taboos must have "worked," in his case. All people are complicated...in so many ways! We've seen some of that, here. John, obviously was, as well...and loved to "push the envelope," in most every way. Anyway...that "revelation," does nothing to diminish his "worth," to me. "He who is without sin, cast the first stone," and all that... CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 And, besides...it will sell books! LOL! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Norm Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Reading a lot of books about the Beatles and a few on John Lennon makes me think he has been a bum...but a very bright bum. For myself, John Lennon could have done wathever he did, he's not my body..he's my Idol and for all the music he did he will always be the greatest of all. For the rest of his actions...it was his life and I really don't care. The only thing that makes me a little bit sad, it's his relation with his son Julian.... By the way, I was 28 when he got shot...and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing...when I heard the sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 He was certainly damaged goods, insecure, short tempered, a bit sociopathic, etc. His actions toward his first wife and his son were not laudable. But he did generally feel bad and apologize when he hurt people. I don't know how I would handle going from being a nobody to someone that popular in just a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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