Re: The dark stuff
Date: May 18, 2007 00:47
Nikolai Wrote:
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> LA FORUM Wrote:
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> > Goldman could have written about Morrisson,
> Brian
> > Jones or Keith without death threats because
> they
> > are not saints in the same way as Lennon or
> Elvis.
> > Brian Jones has crazy fans and so does
> Morrisson
> > but the drugs and the dirt has always been
> there.
> > Elvis was untouchable for a long time. Lennon
> was
> > after he died. And he was murdered which made
> it
> > impossible to suggest he wasnt just a bread
> baking
> > housewife during 1975-1980.
>
>
> Indeed - there have been enough myth-breaking
> books about his last five years, beginning with
> May Pang's expose and culminating in books based
> on Lennon's personal diaries.
>
> Lennon was no saint, far from it. He was a
> wife-beating thug. He came close to belting Linda
> during an argument in 1969. And - frankly - all
> this "man of peace" is based on what - exactly?
> That his most famous ant-war protest consisted of
> him getting into bed with Yoko Ono for a week, and
> Imagine - a song sung by a multi-millionaire about
> living without possessions. Right.
Yeah but I'm a fan, I think he was great, genius really. And he didnt pretend he was a saint. He was very sincere but the fans never listened. Had he been a painter noone would have been shocked by Goldmans book.