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John would have been 77 years old yesterday. Happy Birthday icon, creator, poet, artist, songwriter, influence, genius. Thankyou.
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he was the most interesting of the Beatles, to me.
Paul always had a problem in never having got to college of any kind; he was always wanting that sort of respectability.
John did go to college – an art college – but like all the best people (*takes a bow) he was kicked out. It was a time when every student was posing as an Angry Young Man. His tutor said that Lennon really was an angry young man – the Real McCoy.
Paul attend the Liverpool Institute which was part of the lpool art college, a grammar school rather than a secondary moderm school. Years later the school fell into disrepair, McCartney was determined to save the building. Paul came up with the idea of a fame school. the building reopened in 1996 as Liverpool institute for performing arts LIPPA for short which is a short walk from Liverpools china town area. John was more your rebel type , he had to put up with strict, narrow-minded instructors who clearly didn’t have a clue what he was about, and a bunch of stuck-up college kids who got on his nerves.I dont think he ws kicked out of art collage? maybe quarrybank school? John spent a lot of time in the pub behind the college Ye cracke which is still there today one of my fav haunts.
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John Lennon was a genius, Legend.
In my opinion……tell me if i’m wrong by all means but it was John and Paul falling out that led to the end of the Beatles? I never liked the Beatles and i never will. How-ever, in my opinion…….i would say that John Lennon was the force behind the Beatles. It’s a bit like Elvis dying…….people will say, well if Elvis was alive today what would he be doing or singing?
To be honest….if Paul (Macca ) died…you might get a sudden rush for sales from the record company or what ever. but in my opinion, it’s John Lennon who died with the music still in him or/and the words.
I liked the Beatles a lot – the only one in my class at first. They had catchy tunes with a real dynamic after the mush they were serving in those days – songs like venus in Blue jeans and singers like Fabian and Matt Monro. They were fun, you could laugh and feel life had something to offer.
Their music also became more interesting. Songs like Fo no One and Eleanor Rigby were heart-wrenching as well as more complicated than the standard fare.
I didn’t like any of them after they split up. Even songs like Imagine and Jealous Guy, while catchy, seem poor stuff compared with the collaboration of those different talents.
Lennon’s Mother album was very stark, though, striking.
This is the best biographical video, played to Working Class Hero, from that album.
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