Ono urges day of healing on anniversary of Lennon's death
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Shame on Ono! Lennon was gifted but he was an ignoramus when it came to understanding global realities and cultural trends. His obsession with peace and love and universal brotherhood has been one more obstacle for western societies to overcome as they confront the bewildering and chronic dangers set out before them on the world stage today. Lennon, like so many boomers, simply didn't understand what lay ahead. You can't tolerate and kiss everything. Their stupidity has made our life more challenging and our future more uncertain.
Gawd, what awful hubris Ono has. Lennon's not that important, and neither is she. He was a better than average singer/songwriter in his time (which certainly can't be said of her, she's a nobody in that context) and he created some good stuff in collaboration with Paul McCartney which has endured well, but when it came to reality, he was a complete innocent. Makes about as much sense as honouring those who've suffered from drug addiction on the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, or gluttons who've choked to death on the anniversary of Mama Cass's death.
Jeez Ono, get some perspective.
Jeez Ono, get some perspective.
Really! So unimportant that a press release by his widow becomes advertised in every major newspaper around the world over 25 years after his murder...yes..so very unimportant...
Really! So unimportant that a press release by his widow becomes advertised in every major newspaper around the world over 25 years after his murder...yes..so very unimportant
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Your posts cry out to be so "unimportant" Dexter Sinister.
Good Post ,Padre Snanctus
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Your posts cry out to be so "unimportant" Dexter Sinister.
Good Post ,Padre Snanctus
China and Sanctus, you really don't get it. Consider the importance of most of the things the mass media report on, and let me remind you that being newsworthy, which really just means a story that'll help sell the product, isn't the same as being important. Lennon and Ono are irrelevant. Lennon was gunned down in a city street a generation ago. A bad thing, of course, but so were a lot of other people before and since, and his premature passing is no more important or unimportant than the premature passing of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mama Cass Elliot, John Denver, George Harrison, and thousands of others. And so what? What changed because of it, what didn't happen because of it? No way to know. Lennon's death was a tragedy to those who loved him, as any death is, but the earth didn't move when he died. Lennon's death is no more important or unimportant than the death of anyone else who's been gunned down and died prematurely in a city street, or died of a drug overdose, or a brain tumour, or choking, or any of the other million stupid mischances we all risk any time we step outside our front doors. Lennon just happened to be famous, that's all, which is the only reason so many news media around the world picked up the story.
Famous doesn't mean important.
Famous doesn't mean important.
Dexter Sinister :
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Yoa are Wrong Dexter Sinister.John Lennon is famous, and his work is very important in a world of music.
Just "Imagin" that I know what I'm saying .
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Yoa are Wrong Dexter Sinister.John Lennon is famous, and his work is very important in a world of music.
Just "Imagin" that I know what I'm saying .
How short your memory must be! At his death, the world certainly came to a sudden halt, as if he was a politician. his ideas influenced and generated millions of people around the world. Artistically alone, he was one fourth of the most important artistic and social revolution in the past 100 years. Things the music world take for granted today were developed and first appeared by him and his three partners.
There are thousands of organizations who have devoted themselves to ideals he spoke of, the Spirit Foundation, the Lenono Trust, Imagine, etc.etc.
In the avant-garde art world, his wife is a respected and sought after artist to this day. Her work is regularly featured in major galleries around the world.
Don't confuse politics with being all there is to importance. Both John and Yoko are very important in the fields of art, music and social activism,
That is why millions still read and take to heart his widow's letters to the press.
That's for sure. As an artist his importance is still influential. His Beatles era compositions with Paul alone are major works of musical artistic value, still as popular today as when they were first created. If he had stopped doing anything artistic in 1970 when the Beatles split up, that would have been enough to generate him as one fourth of the most important artistic upheaval of the past 100 years.In short, his influence in the fields of art, music and social activism are still immense.
Don't forget an important point....
The Beatles - while revolutionizing the pop world's taste in music were a group of musicians - uniquely well tied together - but as individual musicians were not any more special than most of the day.
I'll give a nod to McCartney's composition and Lennon's "imagination", but they were necessarily a group for their individual skills within a group. As soloists they would not have reached the fame they did.
The BeeGees had the same talent - lesser representation.
If one compares musicians with some of the soloists in our world or composers who have passed down individual bodies of work incomparable...and unique.... (including the great classical masters)...the Beatles were just another group of talented musicians who "caught" with the public - who made them famous.
They were not famous for their talent as musicians. Unless one equates "talent" with "financial gain".
And Oh No? Oh please..... she has been riding on John's coattails since she tied up with him.... having no talent of her own.
The Beatles - while revolutionizing the pop world's taste in music were a group of musicians - uniquely well tied together - but as individual musicians were not any more special than most of the day.
I'll give a nod to McCartney's composition and Lennon's "imagination", but they were necessarily a group for their individual skills within a group. As soloists they would not have reached the fame they did.
The BeeGees had the same talent - lesser representation.
If one compares musicians with some of the soloists in our world or composers who have passed down individual bodies of work incomparable...and unique.... (including the great classical masters)...the Beatles were just another group of talented musicians who "caught" with the public - who made them famous.
They were not famous for their talent as musicians. Unless one equates "talent" with "financial gain".
And Oh No? Oh please..... she has been riding on John's coattails since she tied up with him.... having no talent of her own.
If I may say so, you have fallen for the typical propaganda of Beatles fans who believes this about Yoko. In fact, marrying John may have seriously hurt her career. She was a thriving and impassioned artist long before she knew what a John Lennon was, being involved in a group of avant-garde artists known as FLUXUS in the early sixties. She was quite respected in that field, especially in the ideology of conceptual and visual art. In fact, she is a very talented artist and I personally have visited some of her exhibits. She has the mark of a true artist, her work makes me think.
While Lennon may have had personal character flaws (and who among us doesn't), it should be remembered that he was a very charitable person. A great many artists have followed his example by donating money to worthy causes and through concerts. He, indeed, was a great artistic influence. But his charitable work was also praiseworthy.
Dear Sanctus - Good Morning!
I am writing my opinion only of Ono - and if you believe her to be an outstanding artist individually - then I can only state she made poor choices in becoming a lesser of a pair. Perhaps she is a worthy artist (was?) - I have no knowledge of her accomplishments prior to the Lennon period of Ono's life which seems to have been her last.
Additionally anyone including Ono and even Lennon who has to use narcotics to advance themselves into artistic creativity is not necessarily a pure artist....
Again only my opinion.
I am writing my opinion only of Ono - and if you believe her to be an outstanding artist individually - then I can only state she made poor choices in becoming a lesser of a pair. Perhaps she is a worthy artist (was?) - I have no knowledge of her accomplishments prior to the Lennon period of Ono's life which seems to have been her last.
Additionally anyone including Ono and even Lennon who has to use narcotics to advance themselves into artistic creativity is not necessarily a pure artist....
Again only my opinion.
But in a few more years, after the generation of people who appreciate his music etc die off, no one will care...
Morning Gopher
I am not knocking any of the good things Lennon did at all - his music was wonderful as a beatle and perhaps his poetry was outstanding (or rather lyrics), and I praise anyone who is a charitable person - but I stand fast that individually not one Beatle was a particularly outstanding musician. As a group they were
totally unique - bring the pop world back into some serious music.
Many many fans learned a great deal about music from the Beatles and groups like them - raising the standards for the artists to come later.
