Imagine No John Lennon, It's Easy...

October 15, 2009  1131am

Imagine No John Lennon, It's Easy...

John Lennon wanted us to give up all our possessions and religion to achieve a brotherhood of man. This revelation undoubtedly came to him while he had a net worth of over $150 Million  and as he watched homeless people during his limo ride to & from the Dakota, that luxury apartment building in New York (or was it the slums of India?)...

The same John that abandoned his first son Julian at age 5 and later that same year in 1968, moving in with Yoko Ono and all his wealth? Throughout the marriage, Lennon slept with other women and would leave drugs "lying around the house." Things came to a head when he drunkenly told Cynthia about his affair with the Japanese artist Yoko Ono. Soon after Ono revealed she was pregnant, Lennon's divorce was finalized at the end of 1968.

No songs were ever written by John for Julian, the emotionally abused, unwanted first son. It was bandmate Paul McCartney in 1968 that felt so sad and helpless thinking about what Julian ("Jude") was experiencing watching his parents divorce and then be abandoned... Trying to cheers him up I guess by telling J to cheer up and give Yoko a chance, let her into your heart... 

Right, says Julian in 2019, finally clearing the air; "“I have to say that, from my point of view, I felt he was a hypocrite. Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces – no communication, adultery, divorce? You can’t do it, not if you’re being true and honest with yourself.”

The same gentle icon the hippies worship was actually a man with very serious psychological problems that was documented for/as:

1. Wife-beater -- all the way back to his Liverpool days, and he eventually admitted it himself later in life.

2. Emotional Abuser  -- Once, Julian giggled and Lennon shouted back, “I hate the way you f-ing laugh!” He wrote his first wife Cynthia and told her to get over it (the divorce, abandonment, no money, etc), saying basically that it was during the 'Beatles' years and he was under the influence of LSD, that's all it was... a bad trip...

and maybe the psychotic split from reality that allowed his hypocrisy to go off the rails, and pen "Imagine?"

3. Pathological Liar -- claimed he had been a working class lad from Liverpool before the Beatles; he was actually raised in a comfortable middle-class home. He denied being married during his early years of stardom. He claimed to have met Yoko Ono at an art show and their love blossomed spontaneously; in fact, Ono had stalked him for months before he gave in to her advances. He claimed to have lost interest in the Beatles due to Paul McCartney’s tendencies toward pop music and dominant role in the group, as well as his desire to do his more avant-garde work outside the band; in fact, he had all but left the band in its last two years as the result of a serious addiction to heroin. 

4. Hypocrisy -- His song 'Imagine', its lyrics are such utter irony coming from this poseur.

This special touch of hypocrisy and self-righteousness earns this song 1st place on my most idiotic songs list:

The man who sang “imagine no possessions” lived a millionaire’s life in a posh New York hotel. The drive from his swank Upper East Side digs to and from "The City" took him past some of the worst slums in the Big Apple says 'Rough Guides' New York City edition.

The man who sang “imagine no religion” was obsessed with every spiritual and New Age fad that came his way, including Hindu meditation, the I-Ching, and astrology of all kinds. 

The man who sang “all you need is love” was a bitter, violent, and angry man who abused his family and friends. 

The man who praised having “nothing to kill or die for” helped finance and publicize radical groups who extolled the use of violence. 

Quite literally everything his fans see personified in the icon of John Lennon are ideals the man himself either couldn’t or wouldn’t live up to.

Lennon? Remember he's the one that felt that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and that Christianity would vanish and shrink? Lennon? Where's he at? Interestingly, after his remarks, The Beatles never toured again, ceased to perform concerts, feuded and shortly disbanded.

Ask me and millions of other to truly imagine a world or our lives without Jesus and you'd hear an astounding chorus cry out, "Never!"

But imagine a world without John Lennon, it's easy, heck, we've been doing it for nearly four decades, forty years...