C&L's Late Nite Music Club with John Lennon
By Susie Madrak Monday Dec 08, 2008 9:00pmTwenty-eight years since John Lennon was killed. Boy, it seems like yesterday ...
Shine on, John.
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Twenty-eight years since John Lennon was killed. Boy, it seems like yesterday ...
Shine on, John.
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It's similar to the same question about the JFK hit...
I was living with my family in a dirt-floored hogan next to the Navajo rez out of Winslow, listening to an old car radio hooked up to a car battery, that night when the news came. I was shocked. Pulled out my red guitar and played a long, soft dirge.
I was commuting east from Lakewood OH to an inner city Cleveland hospital for my shift as an LPN. It was dark, five in the AM and I was weirded out.
I began singing to myself, "Happiness is a Warm Gun."
Perhaps John's spirit took hold of me and made me sing it, thinking it a great joke.
Or I like to think.
More likely I had become a very sick puppy, working in the ICU.
I was in Lethbridge working as a rodgirl on a surveyor crew and had just gotten back to the motel for the evening meal. Needless to say, I didn't eat much that night.
Even with his fame and wealth, John was really a down-to-earth guy who just wanted peace for all of us. It's so sad that his openness to strangers ended in his death.
The Beatles really did change the world. I bet John and George are jamming upstairs right now and entertaining the 'locals'.
I will never forget you, John. Peace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefCg23-xcY
http://www.360cities.net/image/john-lennon-st...
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I knew tonight's LNMC had to be with John Lennon. The Beatles were my first band, even if people my age were listening to punk in the late 70's, I had all their songs on tape and knew all their lyrics by heart. Lennon's love of Asian culture and his liberal hippie views have always had big influence on me. Here's Lennon in the studio singing Give Me Some Truth.
I find a John Lennon Style Sunglasses..It is cool.
GOD- john Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3ic6OOXns
I was watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell broke in on the commentary by Frank Merdith and Don Meridith on the implications of the game for the playoffs and said that was all well and good, but mattered little because John Lennon had been shot. I recall wanting to throw something at the screen because if he was wrong....
But it was true. And later that night on Nightline, they caught up with Paul McCartney and Linda (r.i.p.) as they were leaving a theater and the look on his ashen face said it all. A horrible night.
That's where I heard it first. Monday Night Football.
doing calculus homework & listening to Walls & Bridges,
Old Dirt Road
...for sure. And he'd come by C&L and tell us all to keep up the good work.
Don't Let Me Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riOnVUJAo3k
*Live ON Abbey Road Studios' roof.
Fantastic video.
'She done me good' ... the boys were certainly having fun and enjoying themselves!
I disagree somewhat with that right-wing termonology. He was "assassinated", IMHO.
...a new immigrant to Montreal, Canada, escaping the Reagan Revolution for a job in the Great White North. I was dozing when I was awakened by a CBC special bulletin...I almost thought I had dreamed it, or nightmared it, if you will.
At that time I lionized Lennon, yet now, I mostly recognize him as a good songwriter and performer, but no longer as any kind of hero. Just learn a little of his treatment of his first wife and son, that pretty much pops that hippy dippy bubble for good. Still, I miss the artist.
Bullshit.
All history owes the dead is the truth.
It's true that Julian could write his own Plastic Ono Band about his abandonment issues. But in fairness to John, he was just beginning to find the inner peace he had always sought when he was killed. He never got a chance to make amends.
John was the first to admit the flawed character he was. He always said he was not a peaceful man - he was a violent man who learnt not to be violent.
Credit to him for that.
Not bullshit. Not to dis John on the anniversary of his death, but there can be no doubt he treated Cynthia like shit and was a crumb to his first son. At the time John was shot, his first wife was running a sandwich shop in Wales to make ends meet. Julian had only seen his father 5 or 6 times in the twelve years since John had taken up with Yoko. Julian had to sue to get anything out of the estate. The litigation dragged on for years. Very shoddy and very sad.
But AC (Annoyed Canuck), do you really believe what the MSM (Main Stream Media) says on it's face????
Not sure what MSM stuff you're referring to. John's life is well-documented and so is his relationship with his first wife and child. Julian has long been outspoken about his mixed feelings toward his Dad and the way he was brought up.
Don't get me wrong, Lennon was a brilliant songwriter and musician. But he was (like all of us, alas) flawed. Bob Spitz's book, The Beatles, clearly conveys John's genius, but also describes how deeply he was affected by drugs. Fact is, John was strung out on acid and heroin for years. For long periods of time from 1966 on, he was out of it. This was a factor in the breakup of John's marriage and the friction between the band members especially between John and Paul.
Only one-year old at the time. Didn't know the guy, but I learned to like his music through his son Julian. Their voices came off more real than the manufactured "talent" soon to follow. Anyway, I blame Reagan for his death, since he hated peace.
The Beatles: Fool On The Hill -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIsou0IRIQU
The Beatles: KNOWhere Man -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv34Cat3Vw
(Bush is the leader of the "Know-nothing" movement (look it up.))
Paul McCarthy wrote all the pretty music, but it was John who gave the Beatles their depth. If it wasn't for Lennon, the critics would have never taken the Beatles seriously. Through collaboration and competition, John Lennon forced Paul McCarthy to perfect the Beatle sound. You can compare each Beatle to their solo careers for evidence.
John had an agenda that went well beyond most rockers at the time. And for this, John was well before his time. He was a musician artist activist. Lennon's activist music was edgy and sensitive at the same time. His commentary never really left his working class roots. Considering the time and context Lennon wrote his songs, his talent, and his courage to say what needed to be said, makes me stand back in awe.
"Recording The Beatles" Authors Interviewed
http://emusician.com/videos/interviews/rec_th...
10 Beatles covers that will blow your mind
http://www.examiner.com/x-498-Indie-Rock-Exam...
I really never was much of a Beatles fan (I happened to love the Association so much more ... ), until I hit the net. What can I say, along came windy ...
and it's been years since I've heard that music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tVhCbOXP30
and so are you. Alas, it's time for zeds. A special good night to lafingas.
Sleep well to all ... until next time.
The Beatles Revolution Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWDeOu4Rv4
What's the New Mary Jane written by John Lennon, and inspired by Syd Barret.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixKCfJhW_x8
but Revolution will always be a top pick for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrvJj3p3Nc
Happiness is a Warm Gun - John Lennon [Beatles]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2Vdcv9Q_o
Where was I?
I was in the middle of pave’ setting 5 carats of 20 pointers in a western style belt buckle in my studio on the west side of town. I got up to turn the news on the tube. It’s then I first heard. I was so pissed off that when I tried to set another stone I snapped it in half, needless to say I quit for the night and finished the buckle the next day.
I remember back to the evening I heard the news...hot anger boils inside. Most all of us knew then that our government was behind Johns murder. When you consider the fact that all who remember this murder, have spent a great deal of our lives under a government who kills,steals,robs and just plain fucks the hell out of everybody and anybody... the fire burns...hot! How many other people have these low-down rat fuckers killed? These poor excuses for human beings have tormented this country and the world almost our whole lives, I can't FUCKING believe it! When does justice get served? CEO,citizens,eyes,open(wet)
mentioned tonight how much Mike Malloy hates these people???? ( ;-) )
something kept nagging me today as I remembered all the way back to Catholic School that today Dec 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception... then it hit me... the way more real and deep feeling of this man's life ending. I remember before I got the news seeing a bus driving down Sunset Blvd near Doheny in L.A. and someone had spraypainted onto the bus in red letters: Beatles4ever
when I got home I understood what had happened.
One of my very first memories is seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964, when I was 4. I had 4 older siblings, so I heard all the music they liked and grew to love the Beatles most of all. I still have a strong sensation of the intensely happy feeling that came over me as a kid when I listened to the early rockers: I Saw Her Standing There, All My Loving, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, etc. Those harmonies and guitars, the sheer energy, really cast a spell. There was nothing else remotely like the Beatles. And they just kept changing and getting better. I just love the Beatles. They gave me the soundtrack of my childhood and adolescence.
I was a student at the University of Toronto when John died. The radio was on in my room and I was laying on the floor trying to study when the news from New York was announced. A few weeks before, I had spent a few days in New York, at my sister's small apartment 5 blocks from the Dakota. One morning we went for coffee and pastry at a neighborhood place called Cafe Creme. John and Yoko used to drop by sometimes. The owner had taped snapshots of them to the wall. To the people of the West Side, Lennon was a regular guy they often saw in the streets. I've often regretted not getting a flight down there after the shooting, just to pay my respects.
studying for finals, when the knock at the door brought our floor's own self-styled Jim Morrison heir apparent to announce the news. I thought he was b-s ing me, but then we all gravitated to the nearest television and kept watching the coverage. Yeah, it was pretty morbid even back then, but nowhere as bad as it gets with tragedy these days. What a weird year that was - the coronation of Saint Ronnie and the dispatch of Lennon in barely a month's time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCjaiXmUb0
I came home from the hospital that day with my new baby. Such excitement, such joy. Then John was dead. Such sorrow.
I visited Strawberry Fields in Central Park this summer. I sat and watched people there for about an hour. Then I cried, sitting on that park bench. My 28 year old daughter held my hand while I cried.
My ex-husband played on "Imagine" and had his own album produced by Ringo. When we heard of John's murder, the first thought was the culpability of the government in making his life in the US such a trial, which then made him such a weary target. Your tribute was beautiful and one of the reasons I always check your site is because of your adding music to the day's events. Where would we be without that context?
Some facts:
- Chapman had been associated with World Vision, a Christian organization with ties to the CIA.
- John Hinckley Sr., the father of Reagan's assailant, was director of World Vision and a long-time family friend and business associate of George Bush Sr.
- Bush Sr. was CIA director in the 70's.
- In 1977, CIA officials boasted to Congress how they could brainwash anyone into being a programmed assasin in 6 months.
- In his only public interview 2-3 years ago, Mark Chapman said that after he shot Lennon it was like he 'awoke from a dream' and then realized what he had done.
Google 'John Lennon World Vision' for more or visit Mack White's site for a rundown – everyone should know this stuff:
http://www.mackwhite.com/lennon.html
That's Paul singing "The Long And Winding Road".
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