“Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream”—John Lennon Photo by Yoko Ono. Updated. Perhaps it is one of those curious fearful symmetries(1) that the words of John Lennon quoted above are found in the Beatles’ album titled ‘Revolver’…and that he was finally gunned down, shot multiple times in the back by a “fan”.… Read More John Lennon and The Seductions of Beautiful Nothing
“God” is a song by the English musician John Lennon, from his first post-Beatles solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The album was released on 11 December 1970 in the United States and the United Kingdom.[2] The song references the Beatles and other cultural phenomena.[3] As with the rest of the album, Ringo Starr plays… Read More Revisiting John Lennon’s Anti-Credo
I don’t mean to rain on Patrick Madrid’s (or anyone’s) parade. But consider. He writes in bold letters on ‘X’ that The Beatles are the “Greatest Band in History. Don’t Trust Anyone Who Doesn’t Like The Beatles!“. But the Beatles cast both genius and deepest shade. I’m in my 7th decade of life. I’ve loved… Read More The Beatles and Where We Are.
There is a reason I have pointed it all out more than once over the years. The more charming, the more dangerous. Brilliant, fun, and gifted-beyond-belief stars such as The Beatles, whom I’m talking about, can also be dangerous, false global prophets. It can be annoying to hear that, if one is not sufficiently aware… Read More Even Sadly Broken Clocks…The Beatles.
Steve Turner in his important 2016 book, Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year, relates what John Lennon told him regarding his view of Jesus Christ; “Once he left school and music began to take up more of his free time,” Turner says, “John stopped attending church, but wealth, adulation, and his drug experiences made him reconsider… Read More John Lennon, The “Passover Plot,” and The Gospel “Bullshit”
Philip Norman in his book SHOUT’ The Beatles in Their Generation, writes, “If we are honest we must accept the extent to which the heady new freedoms of youth in the sixties paved the way for the frightening, ungovernable world we see about us today. From the happy high of pot and pills and the… Read More The Beatles, the Sixties and Us
Before there was Gloria Steinem or Michel Foucault, there was Dada. And it was deadly serious. Kickoff, Demolition time. “Dada thrives on contradictions. It is creative and destructive. Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it.” So says one narrator of journalist-filmmaker Mick Gold’s Europe After the Rain, a 1978 Arts Council of Great Britain documentary… Read More 1914. Europe After the Rain.
