re: 41 years ago John was killed

A sad day and week. RIP

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Obviously they don't like Lennon.

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It wasn't southern rock, so immediately it's commie bs

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I made this a topic on the OT and it went over like a fart in church

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happens every year

people who hate his politics (includes me), people who think he was a hypocrite (also includes me), Zep fans who are jealous of the biggest band of all time, assorted fans of assorted shitty acts, and most annoying of all, people who insist on mentioning that dimebag person and piggybacking on Lennon instead of starting a separate thread

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He seemed like such a genuine and authentic guy in the film, and for some reason that makes me even more sad that he went out the way he did.

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this ..the doc was very telling in that we didnt know him at all.

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And we are all hypocrites in some shape or fashion

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we don't all write songs celebrating values we openly and blatantly disregard

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From hearing all the lore, I always had this impression that John was this snobby hipster who thought he was too good for the Beatles toward the end

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John redefined music.

And then redefined pussy whipped

Most of the hate he gets stems from his obsession with Yoko and demand that she be recognized and respected as an artist. You need only to watch his performance with Chuck Berry to understand.

Chuck Berry is a legend and a pioneer. And one of John’s heroes and idols. He has never met him before this performance so it was a once in a lifetime dream come true. And he brought Yoko. And he put her on the stage with them. And she shite on it. A lot.

John and Chuck

All that said, the hate he gets is undeserved and he’s definitely taken on a strange warped persona in pop culture following his death.

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Hell, it was Paul's 'Coming Up' that spurned John into a songwriting fenezy

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“frick a pig. It’s Paul”

I always get a laugh out of all the stuff Paul wrote it was Coming Up that John Lennon was like “damn that’s some good shite”

Dude was a piece of shite. Beatles are the most overrated boy band of all time!

It seems clear in hindsight that the gentle icon the hippies worshipped was actually a man with very serious psychological problems who often flew into uncontrollable fits of rage, which he took out on the women in his life.

As his critics sometimes point out, all you have to do is go straight to his songs. The man who sang “imagine no possessions” lived a millionaire’s life in a posh New York hotel. The man who sang “imagine no religion” was obsessed with every spiritual and New Age fad that came his way, including Hindu meditation, the I-Ching, and astrology of all kinds. The man who sang “all you need is love” was a bitter, violent, and angry man who abused his family and friends. The man who praised having “nothing to kill or die for” helped finance and publicize radical groups who extolled the use of violence. Quite literally, everything his fans see personified in the icon of John Lennon represents the ideals the man himself either couldn’t or wouldn’t live up to.

Chuck Berry's face when he first hears Yoko