December 8, 1980
Presented for your delectation by the Gentleman Farmer at 10:07 AM
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
--Archilochus
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem
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The Smoking Gun has a lot of interesting documents up in honor of JWL:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1208051lennon1.html
I wonder if anyone else did more than John Lennon to popularize and legitimize illegal drugs?
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While John certainly had a role to play in it all, he was fairly tight-lipped about drug use when it came to the normal speaking-to-the-people conduits. Most of the quotes you see nowadays are things he said sometime after the height of his popularity (much of it in his 1980 Playboy interview). It was actually Paul who first spoke publicly about the Beatles' use of pot and particularly LSD.
I feel like Lennon had as much to do with the popularization of drugs as he had to do with the popularization of circular glasses, or white pianos, or transcendental meditation (which he quickly renounced, to little effect on its popularity).
Yes, John Lennon was a notorious user of drugs. But the popularization occurred because he was massively popular and it was something he did, not something he sought to advocate.
You don't have to make too many public statements on the subject, if you entitle songs "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (get it?) and sing "remember to let it under your skin, then you'll begin to feel much better".
There's a well-documented drawing of Julian Lennon's (reprinted in the Beatles Anthology book) entitled "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." You should check it out.
Also, "Hey Jude" was written by Paul, in its entirety. Furthermore, the lyric is also, "the minute you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better." He's talking to a child whose parents have just divorced and has been more-or-less deserted by his father (John).
Honestly, don't try to debate Beatles history with me - you will lose.
Should we start hurling mud at Ol' Blue Eyes, because he's "got you [obviously, a hypodermic needle] under [his] skin"?
Wasn't he gay? I mean Yoko might as well have been a man. Total surfboard.
Lots of speculation about him and Neil Aspinall taking Mediterranean vacations...and Neil, we know, was a FLAMER.
ps. Brian Epstein too.
Oh, that's right, I forgot: For some people, "the Beatles" is in the category of History (like "Watergate", an entry in the encyclopedia).
The "sixties" (i.e., roughly 1968 to 1975) was a dreadful time, and the Beatles, bigger than Jesus, were at the vanguard.
John Lennon is to be admired for a high ideal of married love.
I got news for you - 2001-2005 has been a pretty dreadful time, and contemporary music is awful too.
Tsk, tsk. We cannot have comments that include grossly inaccurate historical information.
"The '60s" commenced on November 22, 1963, and ended on August 9, 1974.
Just trying to keep the facts straight.
Two questions about John's hand gesture (two fingers up), sometimes called a peace sign:
1. Is there any articulable basis for identifying this sign with "peace"?
2. When did it morph from being V for Victory (a la Churchill) to standing for peace?