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Post by graucho on Dec 12, 2021 22:50:52 GMT
Far be it from me to interrupt the Lennon lovefest but did he ever express an opinion that could be considered even mildly conservative? He was obsessed with accumulating wealth throughout his life — a fixation that got worse as time went on, particularly during the final five years of his life, when, crazily obsessed with the notion that Paul McCartney was richer than he was, he instructed Yoko to invest and reap as much money as possible so he could "beat" McCartney. Also, he supposedly considered becoming a born again Christian after getting hooked on watching some televangelist in the late 1970s. Yoko apparently put a quick stop to that. If he had lived, I cannot imagine that Yoko would have been able to stomach the sight of him for very much longer. I really do think she would have divorced him in the early 1980s. The world needs that Lennon bio - or is it already in one? I remember Barry Miles telling me he thought the Lives of John Lennon was the best one!
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 13, 2021 0:04:08 GMT
hoffa_nagila said: hoffa_nagila said: Well, I see my poat wasn't understood either. I was aiming for satire/cynical/funny/a bon mot. But in this age of conspiracy theories, I suppose I should have known better. I didn't think YOU were being serious. But there are people who do think that Yoko had him whacked.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 13, 2021 0:41:25 GMT
hoffa_nagila said: hoffa_nagila said: Well, I see my poat wasn't understood either. I was aiming for satire/cynical/funny/a bon mot. But in this age of conspiracy theories, I suppose I should have known better. I didn't think YOU were being serious. But there are people who do think that Yoko had him whacked. Exactly. The whole "worth more dead than alive" thing. It's been said about Lennon, said about Kobain, said about Tupac. I get ya.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Dec 13, 2021 0:55:00 GMT
Chris Cornell too.
It happens in particular when one of these guys commits suicide. In the mind of various fans, it is impossible that one of their heroes, one of their role models, could have an history of depression. And it's easier to blame some broad, either indirectly (she made his life a nightmare) or even directly (she murdered him).
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Post by Brick Wall on Dec 13, 2021 1:13:17 GMT
I didn't think YOU were being serious. But there are people who do think that Yoko had him whacked. Exactly. The whole "worth more dead than alive" thing. It's been said about Lennon, said about Kobain, said about Tupac. I get ya. I give up.
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Dec 13, 2021 1:26:09 GMT
I didn't think YOU were being serious. But there are people who do think that Yoko had him whacked. Exactly. The whole "worth more dead than alive" thing. It's been said about Lennon, said about Kobain, said about Tupac. I get ya. Like this.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 13, 2021 1:32:01 GMT
Exactly. The whole "worth more dead than alive" thing. It's been said about Lennon, said about Kobain, said about Tupac. I get ya. I give up. No, don't! I'm not the quickest guy in the world lol
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 13, 2021 1:33:38 GMT
I say we wrap up all the what-if scenarios with Lennon before it starts to reek of SHite in here. I think we all know what direction he was heading.
Anyway, back to crying and shaking over Nesmith.
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Post by CarnivalOfLightFan050167 on Dec 13, 2021 3:11:45 GMT
Mine slipped
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Post by coddiwomple on Dec 15, 2021 17:54:46 GMT
December 8, 1980. I can remember it as if it was only 4 decades ago. I was sitting on the floor about 2 inches from the TV because that was how we rolled back then. We also had to get up and physically turn a knob like wild animals or poor people in order to change the channel.
It was Monday night, so naturally I was watching M*A*S*H. What else was I gonna watch on Monday? I’m not a commie. They interrupted the show for a “special bulletin” and I was pissed. They were always interrupting Little House and Buck Rogers with these special bulletins about shit I never cared about, like gas prices skyrocketing to 70 cents a gallon and boycotting the Olympics. When they interrupted M*A*S*H I got up and went to the kitchen for some nilla wafers and gatorade.
I heard about Lennon a day or two later from someone or other.
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Post by audiopro on Dec 16, 2021 18:13:23 GMT
I remember my parents assuming he'd overdosed.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Nov 10, 2022 1:27:14 GMT
I’m a month early, but I went to visit the Dakota today almost by accident.
Seems a good reason as any to kick off the festivities.
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Post by Talky Tina on Dec 7, 2022 23:06:40 GMT
May I point out it's "Baby Held Me as I Cried Through The Night Day" again..
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 7, 2022 23:18:26 GMT
May I point out it's "Baby Held Me as I Cried Through The Night Day" again.. You just know certain SHites are chomping at the bit to be the first one to start this year’s thread. My question is who will it be, and how utterly steeped in pathos the thread’s title will be?
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Post by essayceedee on Dec 7, 2022 23:38:02 GMT
I’m going to be shaking and crying and I think Yoko knows it.
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