john lennonist and George Harrison laugh at Sir Macca

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The book is complete and total B.S.


If you are to believe Goldman, John Lennon was homosexual.

What was his incredible, compelling, well-researched proof?

It's that John went to Thailand once during his house husband days. As we all know, the only people who visit Thailand are homosexuals. :rolleyes:


How about Goldman's incredible, compelling, well-researched contentions that during the house husband years John just lied in bed stoned for weeks or months at a time?

I have a one-degree-of-separation source who strongly refuted that:

During his reemergence, when asked what he'd been up to during the five "private" years, one of the things he said was that there was a little coffee patio place around the corner from the Dakota that he used to go to a lot (I have two pictures of him and Yoko sipping coffee there -- they’re on two different 45 picture sleeves).

When I made a pilgrimage to the Dakota in the mid-80's, I decided to seek this place out.

When I couldn't find anything "around the corner," I asked several locals who passed by if they knew of it before one finally did -- it was actually about a block-and-a-half away and its entrance was so small I could see how it could easily be missed.

I went in, ordered something, and sat at one of the tables in the little patio.

At a point when he wasn't serving customers, I worked up the nerve to speak to the proprietor (who had a European or Eastern European accent) -- told him I was a big Lennon fan, had read that Lennon had frequented this place, yada, yada, yada.

He proceeded to talk to me for about 15 minutes... and you could see how shattered he still was from the loss. He said that when John was in town, he used to come there almost every day (at about the same time, IIRC), and usually sit at the same little table (which he pointed out to me).

{Unless someone carted the always-stoned Lennon, in his bed, down the Dakota elevator, though the streets of Manhattan, then propped him up at the coffee shop every day, I'd argue that's (just another) Goldman lie.}

He said that he sometimes brought Sean, and/or sometimes Yoko would accompany him (but that most of the time John came alone).

He said John was very friendly and they often talked for quite a while... and that often John would be talking about, and showing new photos of, Sean. He clearly was in love with that kid, according to this proprietor.

He said every time John would travel (to Japan or on the trips that Yoko sent him due to her astrologists and numerologists :rolleyes: -- if they were so damn prescient, maybe they should have told him not to enter the Dakota at the main entrance on the night of the 8th :realmad:) he would bring back a gift for the proprietor.

He also said John brought him some of the bread he baked a couple of times (and was very excited about it)... though I agree with other sources that John exaggerated the extent of his "bread-baking" period during the December 1980 interviews.

He pointed to a framed picture on the wall behind him (behind the coffee machine, not in clear public view) of John, Yoko and Sean in Halloween costumes that John had given him.

I asked what John's favorite coffee order was, then ordered a cup (and I don't even like coffee) and sat at John's table -- and tried to send vibes of love and how much he was missed into the great beyond.

BTW, it was here (IINM) an incident took place that John told a funny story about in one of those interviews shortly before he was killed:

Apparently there was an older couple who were having coffee there and recognized John. He said he could tell they were working up the nerve to come over and say something to him and, that when they finally did, they said they loved his music, but especially his song "Yesterday" :laugh:



Cafe La Fortuna, New York City - John Lennon's favorite haunt, to be closed - Exploring Monkey


Cafe La Fortuna, New York City - John Lennon’s favorite haunt, to be closed [ in Feb 2008 ]


And most of the other aspects of Goldman's book are as accurate as the portrayals I refuted above. :cussing: