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When was John a 'militant' as alleged by this guy?
Just because he may have been taken in by an actor who fooled many others doesn't mean he became a totally different person.
It'd be a more meaningful story coming from Yoko than from a guy who worked for Lennon for a year and for all we know has an axe to grind. There's at least 2 sides to the story, hearing only one doesn't mean very much.
I'd simply argue that I'm not surprised. John Lennon was a shell of his former self before he died. In the early to mid 70s Lennon was drinking, tripping and doing coke at an epic pace and was an all-around A-hole. Then he mostly got clean and limped home to Yoko. He released an embarrassingly feeble album (Double Fantasy) for a guy not 10 years out of the Beatles.
Hate to say it, but as a teenager jumping on the punk and new wave bandwagon in the late 70s, when Lennon was killed in 1980, it felt necessary. He had become everything young punks wanted to put an end to: classic rock, crusty 60s flower-child, ego-driven starman who sang about things he didn't adhere to.
He was pretty cool in 1965 though, just don't ask his first wife and kid.
Considering that Lennon died in 1980, I don't think he had enough time to become a Reagan fan.
I agree with Back to NE; Lennon was much more pre-occupied with his personal life than he was in American politics.
I understand NE's thought that Lennon's death was necessary, but a better word may be 'inevitable', given our predilection to kill our pop idols of the moment. It's that '15 minutes of fame' Andy Warhol talked about.
Lennon was always a simple peacenik. He hated war, but he never indulged in specifics, and it's important to remember that he was a Brit. I don't think he ever understood the ways of our version of democracy very well. And didn't care to learn about it much, either. He was much more content just staying home, playing with his son, than he was before he went into his huge flame out of a few years earlier. Naturally enough; after a steady diet of jet-fuel grade drama that nearly killed him, politics is nothing but very pale and weak tea.
My cat has more journalistic integrity than the Mail.
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