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    Posted: January 13 2014 at 09:51
I remember reading something a long time ago about John Lennon hearing the music of MAN and stating that it was very good and reminded him of some of the songwriting he did with The Beatles. John Lennon must have been so cool to work with and he probably had a very open mind accepting new artists all the time. When observing some of the film footage of the Imagine sessions with Spector...he was frustrated with "Oh Yoko". Like many creative artists he could not tolerate certain situations and I believe that is what made him so great. I love his confrontation with the fellow who was sleeping on his lawn/property. On film he tells the guy..."Those are just nonsense lyrics" and he says...."How could I have been talking about you?" He tries to set the guy straight and suddenly you get the impression that John Lennon was truly a down to earth person who had much love in his heart. He may have been frustrated with certain aspects to life, but I get the impression that he was for the good of life and about helping people. You can witness that on the Imagine film when he invites the guy in for breakfast. That's another reason why I have a rip in my heart whenever I think of his death. Love ya...John!

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2013 at 03:07
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

I feel it a bit ironic that this thread is named after a line in Sgt.Pepper, a song Paul rote
That's not irony, but thanks for you input.

How is it not irony?
Because it isn't. Titling a tribute to someone with words written by someone else isn't ironic.
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i·ro·ny
n. pl. i·ro·nies
1.
a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
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a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
3. Dramatic irony.
4. Socratic irony.
[French ironie, from Old French, from Latin rna, from Greek eirneia, feigned ignorance, from eirn, dissembler, probably from eirein, to say; see wer-5 in Indo-European roots.]

Even if I had assumed that John wrote them, or wrongly attributed them to John that still would not be irony



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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

I feel it a bit ironic that this thread is named after a line in Sgt.Pepper, a song Paul rote
That's not irony, but thanks for you input.

How is it not irony?
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Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

I feel it a bit ironic that this thread is named after a line in Sgt.Pepper, a song Paul rote
That's not irony, but thanks for you input.
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Lennon was the only public figure I ever cared about. He was a total one off , someone who created much beauty for us to enjoy but also wanted to change the world for the better. Imagine is a song that makes you think. That in itself is incredibly rare.
Not only that he gave the Yes drumming legend that is Alan White his first big break.Big smile
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Points: 14169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2013 at 20:41
I feel it a bit ironic that this thread is named after a line in Sgt.Pepper, a song Paul rote
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Originally posted by proggman proggman wrote:

Great tribute to John Lennon,  Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the first songs I remember, the mellotron intro is impossible to forget.
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A fellow Libra and a downright arsehole....in the sense that he spouted peace, truth and love and our cynical press, leaders and powers that be deemed him a degerenerate arsehole.  The world needs more arseholes.

Remember BIll Hicks...."They shot Kennedy, MLK, Ghandi, Lennon, but Reagan they wounded.....wrong choice!"
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Great tribute to John Lennon,  Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the first songs I remember, the mellotron intro is impossible to forget.
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Very nice tribute, Dean! Clap

December 1980: After exploring the back catalogues of bands like Genesis, VdGG, King Crimson, Yes and Jethro Tull, my brother (four years older than me) and I "rediscovered" The Beatles, and we had only just begun with Lennon’s solo albums, starting with Plastic Ono Band and the brand new Double Fantasy.

I remember coming home from school the 9th. After a while my five years younger sister suddenly said: "Oh, have you heard that John Lennon is dead?" My brother and I thought it was some kind of sick joke, but we phoned a news line (no internet in those days) and, sadly, she was right.

A black day indeed. But he’s not forgotten. And he will never be forgotten as long as man lives.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Sometimes you can say the same about death.

I remember the day after when I heard the news at work...me and another Beatle fan made black flags and hung them from our car antenna's Cry 
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Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2013 at 13:56
Very nice tribute, Dean! Clap

December 1980: After exploring the back catalogues of bands like Genesis, VdGG, King Crimson, Yes and Jethro Tull, my brother (four years older than me) and I "rediscovered" The Beatles, and we had only just begun with Lennon’s solo albums, starting with Plastic Ono Band and the brand new Double Fantasy.

I remember coming home from school the 9th. After a while my five years younger sister suddenly said: "Oh, have you heard that John Lennon is dead?" My brother and I thought it was some kind of sick joke, but we phoned a news line (no internet in those days) and, sadly, she was right.

A black day indeed. But he’s not forgotten. And he will never be forgotten as long as man lives.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Sometimes you can say the same about death.
He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
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Fave John songs...Strawberry Fields, I Am the Walrus, Revolution 9...the man was prog before there was prog Bowdown

You say it's your birthday?  Happy birthday to you! Thumbs Up
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RIP John Cry my favourite solo John Lennon song is either Mother, the opening track on "Plastic Ono Band" or the obvious classic "Imagine". A great artist, music would probably not be like it was and is today if it wasn't for him/The Beatles with those great albums, especially Sgt. Pepper. 

Happy 73rd John!!
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<-------------It was twenty-four years ago today when this fellow was born. Shocked

Party Happy birthday John!!!


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My favorite Lennon-Beatles song
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Points: 3126 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2013 at 18:11
His personality affected the attitudes of American teenagers and kids. It was so cool when he came into our lives. Remembering all the hilarious comments he made between 64' and 65' on national television and he simply won us over. That film of The Beatles performing in front of the Queen?..."The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands....and if the rest of you just rattle your jewellery." Or when he says to Dusty Springfield on Ready Steady Go..."Let me see your scabs"  He truly took American kids out of their depression! We looked up to him as a leader of our youth. That may seem corny to some, but it was inevitable he was to come into our lives and influence us. During Beatlemania...he wrote love songs with some of the strangest twists in the lyrics. He had a very different style of using words that no one in America had ever heard before. And...it stuck with American kids  to a extreme point where they would actually quote those lines when they were on a date. Girls and guys both..did this sort of thing in high school with John Lennon songs.
 
He brought a message to America...where he somehow addressed us to express how we feel! We weren't doing that in school because it felt forbidden, but John Lennon was Rock n' Roll, carried a proud and outspoken attitude that taught American kids to not be afraid of life. It felt good not being afraid of the teacher, the principal, the adults ..whatever? That is what he taught us and his songs influenced us to follow that path..for real! He changed the American environment. He was truly great! 
 
When he died...I was 24 years old, driving in the rain , heard the announcement and had racing thoughts of the first time I saw him on the Ed Sullivian Show. In my mind..he was bopping his knees up and down (as he often did) and dressed in a suit. And then all his songs raced through my mind until I arrived at the band house where everyone was crying. They couldn't understand!  Some of us were in denial. Everyone was remembering what he meant to us all and all at the same time!  It was like a electrical shock and felt as if someone of great importance had been taken away from us without warning...and so everyone cried and cried endlessly that day. Most people in America loved him and so it was like a rip in each one of their hearts.  


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Points: 36285 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2013 at 15:15
Very nicely done tribute, Dean. 

I love John Lennon's music, and certainly listening to his music and watching documentaries about him has had a big personal impact.

I know this is not about Che, and so sorry to go off-topic in this post: when I saw Che mentioned the first I thought of was the Revolution song.  I don't want to talk politics, but there are definite connections to be made.  One of the things is simply that Che and John were two of the most iconic personalities of the 20th Century -- had this rock star status, and both were often looked up to by the same people.  I think I only have two t-shirts given to me with the images of people -- one is of John Lennon, and the other is Che Guevara.  As different as their paths and approaches were (Lennon took on more of a Gandhi approach to resistance, whereas Guevara used violence as a means). Both Che and John had contradictions that make them more fascinating. Both have a certain mystique and have been rather branded, and have evoked a certain mythologization.  Both have been adopted by protest movements and radicals, and their images adopted by left-wingers.

Anyway, though i was young, I remember when Lennon was killed, and his life, even when contradictions between action and word, still makes me rather lachrymose.
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great tribute Dean Cry
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Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2013 at 15:04
my favourite song of his is Woman ans So This is Christmas [/blush]
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