Liverpool humour, Karen. Right?

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If not for Paul John would have ended up in prison.

@@Jominycrocket0 John lived on the edge because Paul enabled him. Touring with a record called Revolver when he unleashed the wrath of US bigots was a sale idea that worked! They burned the records and bought them again once the frenzy was over. When John mentioned doing heroin on the Disney Get back movie the police were notified in 1969 and John was busted that summer and the Beatle broke up cuz they couldn't tour. Ditto George. That's why Paul is still alive. Not living close to the edge. When the Son of Sam hunted in NYC, John didn't know it was a violent city? He had the tv on always 24/7. Did he think not having security would help him with future sales, if he was killed with zero security? If only Yoko had a black belt in karate, eh?

@@martinkent333 I totally agree with everything you wrote. All John needed was ONE man assigned inconspicuously or not to assure he was safe. I never bought the MDC story. How could a dishwasher from Hawaii afford to fly into NYC, down to Atlanta and back ( buying ammunition?) to the Plaza, a VERY expensive place for anyone to stay. I have read when the police took him into custody he had thousands in his wallet. Not one to follow conspiracies; just saying his story is full of holes. Of course all this would be moot if John or the ALL KNOWING Yoko had simply considered the threat John posed to many people.

Judy was precious. A sweet woman. One will be in Heaven and one will not. 😢

@@sharonbowers9929imagine there’s no heaven. It’s easy if you try.

Outstanding entertainer, what a pity she died so young.

@@sharonbowers9929 She was and what a great stage entertainer too.

@@kevbob No thanks.

Judy Garland is a true ARTIST. Her rendition of The Man that Got Away from ASIB is heart rending. THAT IS TALENT. John Lennon never had that kind of vocal depth, but then again very few singers do. Insecurity is no excuse for cruelty, especially when someone is so obviously vulnerable. Shame on the MOPTOP.

Yep, doing this (being a woke activist) makes you less likeable.

What I find to be interesting about this topic is that I remember hearing Jack Parr who was the first or the second host I think it was the first host of The Tonight Show. He always had or not always but they're very many of his shows he brought Judy Garland in there who he absolutely adored to either talk about things or just to do whatever and he said that in one instance he was with her when she was driving around in a convertible and they had gotten to a traffic light and when he looked over a bit you noticed that the car right next to them was Elvis Presley. Driving in a convertible as well and Elvis looked over a saw Judy Garland and acted like a 10-year-old school boy telling her oh my goodness he said you are the most beautiful you are the most amazing singer who's ever lived I love you so much Elvis told her and she beamed to smiled him said well thank you and Mr Presley. And the check bars that I turned and looked at Elvis and said Elvis I think you are the one of the greatest singers who's ever lived he said nobody will parallel will come close to you and he said I was looking at him like who the hell are you. And Jack said he said I love that look because he said it was either he didn't recognize me from television or that look was trying to figure out who I was. But he said you were so he was so thankful for Judy's sake because of her fragile psyche thanks to Hollywood he said she was one of one of a kind yes she was and that she said she told him she told Jack Parr about how yes there were times she was having problems with money but she said I'll have to do is put together an album she said and I'll be swimming and money that's not the problem she said the problem is she said I have no peace I have no peace of mind I have no there's nothing in me that is feeling like I'm getting ahead in life. Between how Hollywood treated her and her problems with her with her father and her ex-husbands it's got to be really difficult to marry men who you find out are actually gay and back then that was not that was not a good thing but also one of those problems was that her dad the reason they kept moving everywhere they went was that her dad would m0lest boys. Judy's mother was not a loving woman to her daughters especially to Judy she was not somebody who openly told her that she loved her in any way. But her dad loved her very much so this issue of her mother talking trash about her dad which was rightfully so for somebody who was a child molester but to Judy she still loved him because the only love and affection she had from anyone in the family was from her dad. That's got to be like the worst the worst thing ever. Poor Judy all those things piled up on her and for those people who say well poor John he didn't have a dad really didn't have a mom and when she did come into his life he realized that she wasn't mom material.

​@@charliebrownie4158this is the most incomprehensible thing I have ever read.

Thanks. I didn't realize her tough life.@@charliebrownie4158

John could be an asshole.

Yoko didn't want to involve Julian because it meant taking things away from her son Sean, so she convinced John to cut him out of his will.

Yoko was a crappy person who was selfish

@@user-rj5ld7jh7n The average stepmother is like that. Yoko is no more a demon than Alan Klein.

@@luisjeremyramossotil5650​​⁠Pretty sure Allen Klein is worse. First off, the “he had to buy back his possessions” myth needs to die. There were two separate incidents that a lot of people conflate but were each distinct instances with a lot of detail omitted in the retellings: 1) In the days following Lennon’s murder, some employees of theirs stole a lot of John and Yoko’s belongings and tried to sell them. They then tried to blackmail Yoko. This was all within a week if his murder. Yoko, now aware that there was a black market for everything Lennon owned decided she wanted to prevent any further thefts of things they had left in storage when they moved to the Dakota. Rather than waiting in a storage locker to be stolen and sold by thieves, Yoko decided things like old instruments and artwork could be donated to charity to do some good in the world. She still does that to this day with various charitable donations in John’s name. Julian apparently had fond memories of some of these things and decided to buy them at the auction. It’s the kind of thing that happens at any family garage sale, except that Yoko didn’t “sell” anything. None of them were the types of things that screamed, “Julian wants this”. People hold on to sentimental value with many. 2. The second incident involves some old letters and cards between Julian and his father. Apparently Julian or his mother misplaced them in a move. Just like Yoko, his shit got stolen, some of it ended up in a second hand shop where the owner realized what it was and put it up for sale. Julian had no legal recourse, so he paid to purchase back these items. Yoko had nothing to do with it. Lastly, it must be said that John did create a trust to be shared by both his children. Julian did get sue to have more control over his share, but this is quite common, and as someone who has been involved in many such proceedings, as well as being married to a family lawyer, I have to tell you - just because you sue someone doesn’t mean you hate them. Accountants and lawyers all come in and make things far more difficult than they ought to be, but the Court exists to set things straight. Julian got 20 million from his case, which might make people today balk. “Isn’t he worth a billion?” or some such craziness. No, John Lennon did not have a head for business. Yoko actually saved his ass from blowing through his money. Allen Klein, remember? She helped get things in order and diversified his their investments. Legally speaking a lot of his wealth was preserved through her hard work. Lennon as one legal analyst put it, drew up a common “I love you” will to his wife, creative and business partner of 10 years, and mother to his child. He fully expected to be married to her for the next 50 years. Suffice it to say that Yoko didn’t “fight tooth and nail” to deprive Julian of his inheritance. She settled amicably. But when you’re dealing with a multimillion dollar trust that also involves your own child, you don’t just sign off on “give them whatever they want”. Bean counting, filing briefs, agreeing on who pays for what lawyer’s fee, which jurisdiction to take the case to, etc. all of that takes years. And disagreements are par for the course, not to mention bad counselors with their own agendas (lawyers on both sides do NOT want it to end quickly and amicably). As Meatloaf famously said about his lawsuits with songwriting partner Jim Steinman, “I love him like a brother, and he loves me. It’s just that I think his manager is the devil, and he thinks my manager is the devil.” Now imagine if that person is technically family - a stepmother of almost things. All kinds of complex feelings will arise. It speaks volumes that Yoko has never once had anything negative to say about Julian - and if she were truly the devil she would have even if he were as blameless as a saint. And Julian for his part hasn’t said anything bad about her in 30 years. He even celebrated her birthday on a number of occasions.

He admitted some days he was Jesus and others Hitler

Even when he was Mr. Peace and Love he was an a-hole. Anyone that lived through the "bed in", the nude photos, her singing and the endless political opinions, all while the press just had to display everything, you would know, John was a jerk until not that long before his death. What most do not know is Yucko broadcast their address on national TV, Nixed the request for additional security , by his security guy, and during this time John was planning to leave Yucko and move back to England. This is info given by an interview of all of the staff and assistants, and security team. Yucko mistreated everyone, including John.

He never stopped being an a-hole. He just went from major to minor.

He still was even after that.

Once an a-hole always an a-hole! I've never understood why he has been perceived as some godly figure by some people, especially so called celebrities. Liam 'our kid' Walloper comes to mind! 😏

Many, many people had a far worse upbringing than him but did not resort to the vile behaviour he exhibited. If he was some guy down the pub he wouldn't be excused by the people who are so ready to find sympathetic reasons for his abusive and often cruel behaviour.

He was not always like this he was human just like you are and me

Bing Crosby was not an angel either.. just a guy like Lennon was

Lennon did not sell himself to the devil.. he did resent the Beatles goody goody image that was a false Epstein creation .... Lennon hollered at his son.. is that abuse I think not.. was he mean to Garland maybe but its an unconfirmed allegation... Nothing more

@@manny4552 like any artist. Great creativity doesn't make people better persons. Often there are other shortcomings. Leading to the question, can we seperate the enjoyment of the music from the artist's maybe sometimes complicated personality? With Lennon I can, even though I probably would have disliked him as a person. With Morrissey, for example, it's gotten tougher over time.

The Beatles first goal was to be bigger than Carole King. Kind of a strange goal since she was still known basically as a Brill Building songstress.

@@harvey1954 Yes, in the early days they said they wanted to be the Goffin/King of England.

Carol King lived across the street from me when I was a boy. She lived at 2635 Brown Street in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. Her parents lived on East 24 Street.

He didn't insult her he just was unfriendly to her..quiet and she called him out on it years later... He apologized

I've never thought Carol King even sounded remotely like the Beatles. She just sounded to me like a sort of direct Motown rip off.

Well thank god for that at least. It could have been crushing for her to hear abusive comments from Mr. All-You-Need-Is-Love.

@@jamescarter3196 Lennon had his anger management issues long before the pacifism came along. I think it is why he came to embrace pacifism in the first place. He became aware of what a dead end such uncontrolled anger is. It's there in some of his lyrics. He became ashamed of these fits of anger, and tried to change. The lyrics in Fixing a Hole are pretty straightforward on that.

​@@bartstewart8644 getting better lyrics

Not as thrilling as Elvis trying to pick her up. Saved by Petula Clark.

@@Denis_Santos909 Yes, that's the one I meant. But Fixing a Hole is also about making changes, and breaking from the past. There were other songs where he is clearly thinking along those lines, like Jealous Guy. And then there was the song with a character who is straightout calling for violence against women - Run For Your Life. Lennon spent the rest of his life denouncing it as a piece of shit, and the worst song he ever did.

Tbh I prefer some of the rutles songs to the Beatles songs.

That's true 😄. Innes did clever parodies of their early songs which could have crass lyrics. Despite, once being taken along by 'Beatlemania,' all those years ago, I've come to realise that their lyrics often resembled greeting card verses: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, sort of level - not works of brilliance. @@JenO-ut1vn

I absolutely love the genius of the people who who make especially the ones who made the songs that were so close to the other songs like ouch instead of help. Or cheese onions or something like that, get up and go. I absolutely love the fact that George Harrison got involved with it and enjoyed immensely parodying the beatlemania thing. I really think his songs especially his most amazing song ever Here Comes the Sun and his other song that they were working on All Things Must Pass for my way of looking at the Beatles things was that that was his way of saying it's time to move on. And for both of those songs just like Paul McCartney's let it be to me is also in the same brand as All Things Must Pass in a sense of it's time to let it be let the Beatles be but let it be behind them and not in front of them.

​@@stepchicken3238when you learn what first rate lyricists wrote - Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Johnny Burke, Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, to name the outstanding ones who come readily to mind - you become aware that almost all of The Beatles' lyrics were sh*t. That earlier generation of great American lyricists would have regarded The Beatles' lyrics as at the level of "dummy lyrics," as they were called. When a melodist had a melody he wanted the lyricist to write a lyric to, he would play the melody through several times, then expect the lyricist to give him a "dummy," anything, glossalalia, nonsense, whatever, just to help the melodist establish rhythm and accent for the melody. As hard as it may be to believe, Irving Caesar's lyric for "Tea for Two" and Ira Gershwin's lyric for "It Ain't Necessarily So" were dummy lyrics. Each man just rattled them off, Caesar, drunk and half asleep, for Vincent Youmans' melody, and Gershwin for George Gershwin's melody. A day or two later, both partnerships realized the dummy lyrics had managed to be perfect. With few exceptions, all of The Beatles' lyrics were dummy lyrics. It's a major reason the older generation of American songwriters, who were great craftsmen as well as great artists, despised them.

Good point

I don't think it says anything

Wasn’t aware they knew each other….

@@frankmachin5438You're unaware of lots of things and it's not something to brag about

@@readbetweenthelineslll1635 You don't think. That's all.

Yeah he was and was honest about it if you ever get a chance to listen to John interview the day he was killed it blew my mind that he was growing and happy and had so much more to give

When I read, years ago, that he physically and mentally abused his first wife, Cynthia that was it for me! That song "Working Class Hero," to me is a complete joke! Why?! He loved money more then anything, according to what I read. Just another person calling the kettle black!

⁠@@CliffordValvick I do wonder where you read this, since Cynthia herself claimed he slapped her once when they were teenagers and apologised profusely afterwards. Maybe don’t believe everything you read.

​@@CliffordValvick😂😂😂😂

I wonder what a forensic psychiatrist would make of Mr. Lennon. And Yoko too!

None of this is news to any fan of Lennon. We're aware at how deeply flawed he was. We're also aware of how he was murdered just as he was coming to terms with how he was and was beginning to make amends.

Liverpool humour, Karen.

Yes, when JFK would get stressed, he would phone Judy and ask her to sing Over the Rainbow to him.

@@alexandrasymeon5893 The Head of the FBI said JFK never cheated on the wife and anyone who thinks so supports the Mafia that the president was throwing in jail, compliments of his bro. Right? Of course what loser listens to what the FBI says anyway, eh?

@@madhumangaldas333 John was an abusive dude when drunk. I read books.........................................

@@martinkent333no just bloody rude

That's all according to Tom Jones, I bet Lennon was more than ready to beat that Welch pri 's butt

That's not unusual

A classic bully

You're so right. When Pete Best was the drummer for the Beatles all the girls would scream at their concerts because he was the best looking one of them all. John fired him and hired Ringo, the ugliest one of them all, lol.

I think John may have come off worse. Delia Morris

She always did. Too bad he didn't hold onto the one woman that loved him before he was anybody.

I read her last autobiography and she always came across as a nice woman. McCartney said that she told him that she just wanted to be there for John when he came home. McCartney said ‘That wasn’t John’. He wanted a strong woman; a challenge. The saddest part of the book was when she said that had she known what was going to happen, she would have just walked (ran?)away from him when she first met him.🙁

Alpha widow is the current term. Tale as old as time.

I had lunch with JFK three days ago. Right after I had breakfast with 2 pac

Aye, so you did. And santa lives in the North Pole

As an artist I dread the old "mental illness" cliche. I'm up at 12:30 writing this. I'm a painter, and musician. All of my erratic behavour, vigorous study, and work are all products of the same life. I know I wouldn't have produced art without pain. My greatest achievement is when my pain actually made me a more forgiving person.

Bipolar

@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 Yup. Great art is usually bipolar.

As an artist, I have to somewhat agree with this. I see it in myself and my some artist friends. I think they would agree also. I know I'm as flaky as the day is long. lol

Fundamentalist Christianity? Conservative politics? When was Lennon into that?

I think that's crap!!

@@johnbarry1965Whoa! Watch your temper.

That explains Hitler's reputation.

@@davidemmet7343seriously?

@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv Lennon's your guru not mine! I'm just following John Lennon's logic to its logical conclusion.

Agree but it’s singing

T.B.H. I also think of Yoko's 'singing' as breathtaking...every time I hear it, I just wanna suffocate myself. 🤟🐻‍❄️

What did Yoko sign?

@@Nina5144 no it isn’t singing, it’s howling like a sick animal

@@K.J.734 😂😂😂👏🏼👏🏼

Clapton talked about when The Yardbirds toured with the Beatles Eric brought a woman backstage that he had just met. He introduced her to John who proceeded to insult her for no good reason.

The amazing thing is that Mick has the cheek to describe someone else as "mean" - in any sense of the word!

​@@elspencer6334Takes one to know one, right?

@@harvey1954 Hmmm... Clapton talking about treating a woman badly. The ironies abound. Was that backstage woman another one he stole from one one his "friends"?

One of my favorite parts from the actually there's two favorite parts from the John Lennon Imagine movie that came out back in the 80s one of them was the political cartoonist who was in Toronto when John and Yoko did the loving at the bed there and he went in there to go and talk to them and he was actually quite funny very funny as a matter of fact and he he said a bunch of things about Yoko that I understood but when he said them John was like what do you mean by that I couldn't believe that he didn't know that the way he reacted to her or what he had said to her was actually a whole lot on the side of being basically a racist but it but it was from the point of view of somebody who was quite young or maybe in his early twenties and thirties during the second World War. So at that time it was quite a lot of people who didn't have good ideas or thoughts about Japanese people and a lot of that also was because of the fact that people who could read newspapers they knew what the Japanese had done in these foreign countries that they had come into conquer so using those kind of epitaphs was kind of thing it was like yeah well the it was okay for people to talk that way about the Germans so when someone's mind like that political Cartoonist the issue was if I'm going to do that if I can do that about the Germans I can do that about the Japanese as well. Now in the movie there were two other incidents one was going to physically going to a lady who was a reporter who had written in the newspaper about how absurd John Lennon was to think that bringing an acorn to Richard Nixon was going to bring peace in Vietnam. So John went to go arguing with her and during that argue with her he is very loud and very much angry at her for daring to make fun of this these things that you know hair peace and all that other crap that was going on in that argument he is not also saying that in the same sense as him Marching for women's rights that's the other thing that is hilarious is seeing that because it's like no John you don't believe in women's rights you believe in beating them. You believe in yelling at them you believe it you know doing all these things that that you say all the other people like businessmen and such are doing to them you're doing the exact same thing so quit trying to tell everyone else had to live on that point I really love Paul McCartney because that's what that too many people song was all about and that to me was an amazing response to John and Yoko. Now with me being 54 years old I actually love Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time I like that better than Jones Christmas song because that song is so egotistical and so much you know so this is Christmas and what have you done well who is he to ask questions like that who is he to say that he has the right task somebody else what have you done to make the world a better place? If I was a musician at that time and I heard that song come out I would make I would do like a Weird Al Yankovic kind of song on that a Twist on that whole thing to sort of turn that question around to him to say okay okay John what did you do all year long what did you do for the last 40 years you know. Other than making himself rich.

I think this is documented in a few books. Lennon, after his trumatic childhood was a troubled and often violent young man, thankfully I think he found peace and ballance in his later years, especially as a father. This episode is interesting as I'm quite a fan of both Lennon and Garland. ..

@@classicalbum In what year did this incident occur?

Did he ever apologize to Judy? I’m guessing she died way before he found “peace and balance.” It’s the first I’ve heard of lennon being a jerk to Judy and it’s sickening like someone kicking a puppy. I always favored George who wasn’t perfect and Ringo who I don’t think ever did a bad thing to anyone.

@@JenO-ut1vn Not true. He beat up his present wife when they were both heavily into alcohol. He has since quit drinking, from what I understand.

@@JenO-ut1vn George and Ringo borrowed each others wives in the early 70s. No one was a saint

🤣 ya you were there

@@pgroove163 whatever

Class order was as billed: John, Paul, George, Ringo. John's wit would get him out of some tight scrapes...conversely get him into trouble too.

@@gettinhungrig2 Johnny Hutch caught John picking on some weaker guy and threatened to beat the jelly babies out of Lennon.

@@harvey1954 and I heard the same thing about Tom Jones threatening Lennon after Lennon made a nasty comment to him

@@1967PONTIACGTO I don't know about the "threatening" part but as the story goes Tom Jones was rehearsing and John Lennon walked in and started singing "It's Not a Unicorn It's an Elephant", a parody of Jones's hit "It's Not Unusual" and the Welsh singer apparently wasn't happy about it.

Chapman knocked him in his place.

mean drunk

Sometimes it is when a person does not do the "wrong stuff" that they have become habituated to that the really bad stuff happens. Sometimes they make sure that they have a "good reason" to do it again by starting up with their loved ones.

He was like far too many boys without a strong male figure in their lives. Bully even when sober. Easy pickings for Yoko.

treated his own son like crap.emotional abuse..beyond " under the influence"

Well, I guess that makes everything all better.

Brilliant comment.

Liverpool men are like that. Mean and not knowing it's mean. Right?

Absolutely.

Some of the most talented people I admire turn out to be the biggest jerks when I met them.

@@harvey1954it’s better admire George Harrison, a kind soul, humble and wonderful musician, he was really aware about Lennon cruelty…

I would say they were the opposite sides of the same coin. Both Lennon and Macartney tempered each other. Not too sweet ...not too sour.

Jesus wanted eternal horrors for those who refused to bow down in submission to him and accept his cosmic authority .

You wouldn't know either you worthless piece of shit.

And yet Tommy Smothers is there front and centre in the live recording of 'Give Peace A Chance'.

I've seen in depth videos on that incident. It mad me sad.

@@elspencer6334 Yes. That was during the same visit as the bed-in. The Troubadour incident happened a couple of years later.

@@DoubleMrE And? The fact is that The Smothers Brothers understood that the "incident" stemmed from Nilsson thinking that Tommy liked to be heckled and they weren't bothered or traumatised by it. Still, 100 years later it's grist to the mill of a bunch of simpletons, trying to make a big deal of it.

Was John bipolar? Or just a wanker? I always thought he was the best of the Beatles, but he wasn’t. He definitely needed Paul for song writing. Walter Brecker and Donald Fagan wrote a song about John and his silly song “Imagine.” A man who wrote about imagining no possessions while sitting in his multimillion dollar penthouse. It was spot on, “Only a Fool Would Say That.” I now understand why I never like Imagine.

Don't be sorry. Lennon was a complete prick.

He was just a kid running the streets with no parents around, I mean he had his Aunt Mimi, but she wasn't ready to handle an incorrigible teenaged boy.

She should have been able to handle him. Was there something wrong with her?@@BillySBC

says the one living in a glass onion

​@@sprsmoke Yes, there was.Try viewing the video for comprehension

I recommend the book, “Get Happy” by Gerald Clarke. It seems to be objective, and his writing style is a joy to read. I’m presently reading daughter Lorna’s biography of her mom. I was never a fan of her father, but the more I read about him, the more I’m thinking maybe he wasn’t the horrible fellow I thought he was. Yeah, he had his faults, but so did Judy (and so do the rest of us!). He seemed to be a decent father to his kids, and that’s winning me over. I’m a dad, as well. It’s not easy to constantly make the right decisions. Lorna held her daddy in high esteem. And that warms my heart.

emotional mess...drugs and booze

@@pgroove163 And you're so much better, right?

Garland never stood a chance from day one and she had the misfortune of being a complete genius so the exploitation just went on & on till her final day. Not one person ever stood up for her including her own mother. Disgusting.

Seems all he was bothered about was yoko since he met her ..she was a strong woman who became like the mother he never felt he had ... she also used john for fame an attension .getting him force feeding his own fans her horrible singing an work

​@@beestonpoeti believe yoko bewitched john. She was into the occult and makes you wonder....what man follows a woman like a dog on a leash...none!

@@user-dk3up2nl1m men are responsible for their own behavior. Women are not witches.

You and 50 million others! How modern of you!

@sableonblonde1973 And Yoko the evil witch who seduced John to the dark side.

Best most down to Earth no shit Lennon interview I know of was in 1975 on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. I don't know if it was Tom's skills and gregarious nature with people that made Lennon likeable that night or that he could have been on his best behavior for the feds were trying to deport him out of the U.S. Not before then or til he was murdered in 1980 had I seen John Lennon so remarkably like a regular person. Great interview by Tom. Definitely made Lennon look good. Best ever interview. In fact the only interview I actually enjoyed from Lennon.

@@kentduryea7109 Yep, best behaviour.

I wish they wouldn't have given John such a bad reputation he was not a wife beater he slapped Cynthia once when he was young and dumb and apologized a million times and tried to make it up to her when he was older and matured and yes he was very cruel to his son but he had reasons for some of his actions Lennon had a very complicated childhood his mother didn't really want him and dumped him off to his sister for her to raise him and then his mother died when he was young and it's just complicated, Lennon wasn't a very bad person overall he only had a few bad actions in his life and made poor decisions but we all do and yes he wasn't the best person but i don't think he deserved to be murdered so cruelly and awfully.

Yeah, notice how Lennon targeted a weaker person. He would never have dared to try it with a stronger man. A coward of the first order.

He probably did nothing because he was an ex boxer. If it assault charges were pressed he'd be in serious trouble. A lot more serious than an ordinary guy. If you're a pro fighter, current or former, your hands are considered deadly weapons. Assault with a deadly weapon. Good luck with that charge.

YES!! I think he used to beat up Judy from time to time. Sid was a pretty mean guy too. I think Liza had nothing to do with him in his later years. Still, he needed to knock Lennon's teeth.

Good point. @@adamsmith7058

Well, that’s not true. I find that people often jump on others when they die because they can no longer retaliate.

Except for deceased friends, and relatives, and martyrs, and...

She bewitched the guy! She was even cheating on john during the last days in the dakota. He turned a blind eye to it all

Great comment. Keep loved ones away from him. I'd rather have a beer with Charles Manson, at least he was honest.

She covered "Imagine".

@@josephsauris4949 Ah, there you go.

It didn’t help that his maternal relatives constantly belittled his dad. Bunch of harpies

He was a crazy he said he sold his soul to the devil very evil man sad to say he's in hell now

He used his parents’ divorce and his mother’s death as an excuse constantly. We all have problems, though. We all have heart ache. It’s like the Hey Jude song though. Take a sad song and make it better.

@@lv67890 Never underestimate the psychic damage caused to a child by divorce & abandonment. It shouldn’t be so easy. But such is the way of secularism..

⁠@@lv67890 That’s not how it works. “We all have problems”. Yes, and they’re OUR PROBLEMS. Relative only to our own situations. Obviously if you start comparing then you’ll find someone worse off, but then using that logic nobody would be allowed to complain or be upset about anything, because technically there’ll always be someone with it worse.

Sorry. If you beat your wife and child and abandon them penniless, or humiliate vulnerable and suicidal people, you can't ever set that right.

Though growth through good will is possible. Guy was corrupt. So chances are he could've grown into more of a narcissist.

0lenon siempre fué una r474.

I chose not to be a fan anymore probably right before his... "death".

Julian described his father as a glaring hypocrite.

Never had a relationship with his father. Raised by an aunt whose husband died shortly after John moved in .then his mother died...

You could literally say this about anyone who claimed to have a traumatic childhood and just dismiss them by pointing to someone that had it worse. The whole point of peoples trauma is that it’s theirs. It’s relative to them. Not to everyone else. Otherwise I could easily say that you have no right to complain about your life, because there’s a homeless man down the street who has it worse. You can’t ever dislike a meal because someone is starving in another country, you can’t ever be miserable at work because someone else doesn’t have a job. See how that doesn’t work? So yes, Lennon’s childhood could’ve been traumatic for him. Saying “oh well loads of peoples mums die so what’s the problem” is such a brain dead thing to say. Especially ending it by saying he struck gold by being in a successful band, ahh yes because as we all know money and fame makes your life perfect!

His dad abandoned him and his mom died before he was famous. Then his dad returned only to glom onto his fame.

Not enough soon enough. Great artist but any "amends" he made were lazy and, unimperitive and far short of what he easily could have and should have made.

Hate to say it but I think Lennon was a fraud unto himself. He used his idealism to cover up who he as a person was, something perhaps we all do to some degree. It's your actions, not your words that determine who you are.

All assumptions, too long ago for accurate “sources”.

Let him rest in peace. Leave it alone, grow up, stop tarnishing him further. So unnecessary. How would you like it, being cancelled so long after your death. 😊

@@user-ev4ie2wx7k he put a nail in Judy Garlands coffin. There is no forgiveness for that. He's an utter fraud. Singing Give Peace A Chance while terrorizing people in his orbit. He deserves cancellation.

It was schtick it was everything like Sergeant Pepper like all you need is love. It's all about Him pretending to be a communist but in reality he's the biggest capitalist who ever lived the only one bigger than him and that regard was George Harrison but at least he was honest about it regarding making sure he was getting every penny that he should get from writing songs that the Beatles had on their albums. I'm not surprised at all that Paul McCartney was the one Beetle who became a billionaire but again he had the talent in the discipline that John did not have. And to be honest that whole issue of of the things like Vietnam and other things like that it's been a proven fact that the people who were pushing the hardest to try to get others to fight to get America out of Vietnam was being paid in bankrolled by the different communist leaders had nothing to do with people wanting peace it was people wanting to stop the war there because Vietnam was beginning to crack under the military things going on. And John was part of those people who believed those kind of Lies. But then again was such people as Allen Ginsberg. Of whom I have the greatest amount of hatred for with that person being a child molester.

He pretty much abandoned his own son juliàn. That says it all

Does it make a mockery? Was he supposed to have been a terrific person every day of his life in order for people like you to accept his music? I can only assume that you’ve never done or said anything that could be perceived as negative, because if you have then that means you’re a bad person, and if you do anything good in the future, then it’s a mockery because you did something bad previously.

But to the end John, while writing the ballad "Beautiful Boy" for Sean, had no paternal providence for Julian, left him out of his last will and testament.

@@JudgeJulieLit I'm not going to contest that. He never sorted out things with Julian and that is truly sad.

@@JudgeJulieLit At least Paul visited Julian and wrote Hey Jude for him.

That interviewer was definitely British, not American

Hurt people, hurt people! Yeah, it's a bit cliche, but it's true. We have more knowledge of the dark side of celebs today like Steve Jobs for example. But does it create more understanding of the people? I get it now that I'm older.

I’m curious, what is the source for this story?

Also,...Lennon's original lyric was "baby you're a rich man jew"....and the song was about Epstein.

@@johnsain Not true.

What the hell is a tongue lashing???

It’s well known

Agree except for the brilliant part 😂😂😂

Funny Paul being labeled as the hardest working considering Lennon pushed the band as a live act and wrote practically every hit until Paul pulled Yesterday out of his ass.

All of them never really get any recognition it's always " John and the other Beatles "

I think you may be right, which is why I may acknowlege his book, I look at a few different biographies

Well at least he was also a drug addict and a hippiy hippocrite

George lived next door to the airport in early teen and used to hang out there as boys often did in those days.

Paul was the best Beatles in so many ways. The thing against Paul is he wasn't martyred at 40 and ascended into sainthood. When that awful day comes and Paul's gone there will be a massive rethink about how fantastic and phenomenal he was. I was always a Lennon fan but accept that he was a nasty person who I would not have liked if I'd met him. Great voice and songwriter though but a very flawed individual as am I.

@@johnbarry1965 I agree, Paul seems a decent man.

Lennon should have gotten prison for such an assault. What an ass.

​@pmesa7305 Yeah. I am shocked that he didn't!

They only excused him because he was a Beatle and sO fAmOuS

@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh I am familiar with Bing and read about him being one of my favourite singers from that era.

Yes he had his faults but he was kind to her. Bit of a hard dad I read, but men of that era were. Delia Morris

@@nielszindel1151 Yes heard he was a hard dad as well but as you say he was kind to Judy in this instance

Comparto totalmente tu opinoon,lemon era una m....

Saying you’ve got no respect for two people you didn’t know personally just because you know some of the bad things they’ve done is hilarious. It’s almost as if people aren’t black and white, good or bad. Almost as if it people are more complex than that.

Well, Chapman clearly cancelled Lennon

True✅

So??

not really john hit yoko aswell,up to his death,so i dont think he changed much

​@@t2comicbooksoverviews251From what source? Goldman's infactual book of lies?

He was still seeing May Pang up until his death.

​@@johnbarry1965 May said he spoke to her occasionally but didn't see her.

Oh I forgot about him and May Pang-

The news of the attack was the first national news the Beatles got in the UK.

@@MrPhilreilly Thanks for the information I've worked out why I never heard the story. I was in the Libyan desert at the time and only heard partial newscasts.

Brian Epstein fed an "apology from John" to the tabloids over John's objections, "He called me a bloody queer!" Bob took a settlement and kept quiet about it. That's probably the closest John came to torpedoing Beatlemania.

John lennon was also sarcastic to Tom Jones shouting insults

So how many gun fights had Lennon been in before he took the bullet that ended his life, professor?

@@termsofusepolice4

I'm flawed too, but I would not insult Judy Garland.

Albert Goodman didn’t mince words when it came to Lennon and Elvis!

I have always adored that comeback. Lennon was an assh*le more often than not, I think. I also think he became a better man in his thirties - when he wasn't drunk - but what he really needed when he was young was for someone to do to him what he did to Bob Wooler. It's a great pity that when as a teenager, he'd make fun of a disabled person, a thoroughly able person never did it.

Heh, having made that exceptionally strident and judgmental statement... I recognize, I didn't know the guy. I'm just another rando from the outside looking in. Still...

Your response is perfectly valid. I agree on all points. I deeply dislike all the Beatles as People but I'd Choose McCartney for the beer, then George, and then Ringo but Never Lennon.

They probably won't.

You said it brother.

He did go thro a phase of drinking too much. But Yoko dried him out.

I’m glad Zappa got John back for what he did.

Frank Zappa accused John of ripping off his song correct?

@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 Frank claimed John plagiarized his song King Kong

Speaks volumes about Lennon. Zappa was at least funny.

Same here, I stopped 18 years ago and Im still very sorry about a lot of things I did

Agree Brian wanted to soften their image. But he really wanted to tone down their real personalities. Story, on the roof re Get Back the police come up and say to McCartney, ‘you’ve got to come down’ John looks at Paul, Paul tells him , ‘keep going’,McCartney was the naughty one with the angel face and he played John to suit that character. But of course Paul is perfect!’

@@Saffy-yr8vo I don't think Paul is perfect. And I cried myself to sleep on the night Lennon died. Being rebellious and being mean are not necessarily the same.

​@@Kathy-ub8urright, and Lennon was mean. If he'd been rebellious, he would have quit after 1966 and given 90% of his money to children's charities.

​@@bobtaylor170 Nonsense

I know what you mean my Irish maternal side is like that. The matriarch has a lot of power... Delia Morris

I wonder if there was a pic of Paul Simon too? Didn't John call him the singing Dwarf?

LOL - Sums it up perfectly. And McCartney said it was a drag whilst chewing gum :)

Yoko was bored with John it was she who ‘gave’ May Peng to him hoping he would behave. To Tokyo’s shock he didn’t seem bothered about going back, I’ve heard.

The fact of growing up in a rich household has nothing to do with being abused and trauma.

And it was not rich. Middle class maybe, but very uptight about being so….like newly out of the working class…must have been awfully repressive for someone like John.