The Day the Music Died

**darmstadt** · 8 December 2005, 14:22

John Lennon - Wanking Class Hero

This ugly and seemingly passive hippy was actually a bad tempered and
violent bastard. He may or may not have kicked to death a drunken
German sailor in the early '60's. You see, to supplement his meagre
wages in the Beatles Hamburg days, John-boy used to go mugging. What
a rotter. Yep, our John was a smelly-scally, pseudo-hippy. But he did
have an utterly depraved drug habit to his credit. In the late 60's
he kept a large mortar and pestle by his bed. Into it he put, and
ground up, every drug he was given or bought. Whenever, by some
extraordinary fluke, he felt himself coming down, he'd wet a
finger, stick it in the bowl and Bob's your uncle! Off he'd go again
to the land of marmalade skies. Johnnie gets the brownie points for
actually bleaching out the colour in his vision for a while, through
too much acid.
However John Winston loses a lot of cred for going out with the
unpleasant Yoko, whose only beneficial act was to help split up the
Beatles before they turned into parodies of themselves. And I'm
afraid I'm going to have to deduct more points for the criminal act
of putting a naked photo of them both on the cover of 'Two Virgins'
LP.
Johnny utterly lost control when Moano briefly dumped him in the 70's.
Trying to be funny, he sat in a nightclub with a tampon on his head.
In the course of being ejected for stupidity, he demanded of the
waitress, "Do you know who I am?, to which the quick witted girl
replied, "Yeah, you're an asshole with a tampon on his head." Remember
him this way kids.
Lennon gets some marks for writing the archly-hypocritical 'Imagine' -
"Imagine no possessions" - F**k off John, oh, and lend us a fiver.
Absolutely no points for getting shot in the head. Sorry. Only 3/10
on the cool-ometer for this deadbeat, I'm afraid.

**xoggoth** · 8 December 2005, 14:25

"Imagine"

Drippy crap. JL was a total twat in my view.

**Rebecca Loos** · 8 December 2005, 14:27

soooo last century.... who was he exactly, and did he live at the same time as Tchaikovsky?

**AlfredJPruffock** · 8 December 2005, 14:28

Originally posted by xoggoth

"Imagine"

Drippy crap. JL was a total twat in my view.

Well if you knew all of his repertoire rather than the cliched stuff they will trot out on the radio perhaps then you would know of a very different kind of John Lennon.

You already know I wanna bite your spleeeeeenn

Yet I think this one is pretty profound ...

Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film

Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film

**wendigo100** · 8 December 2005, 14:45

I didn't particularly like the bloke, but he did come out with a lot of good music which was part of my childhood and youth.

I like McCartney even less, but ditto.

It just goes to prove the rule: The most talented are usually arseholes in other ways

As if to prove it, I think Ringo Starr has always been a nice bloke.

**BoredBloke** · 8 December 2005, 14:52

You can't imply that Ringo has no talent. Thomas the tank engine didn't have a voice before Ringo. Now all trains have a scouse accent.

**wendigo100** · 8 December 2005, 14:58

Originally posted by TonyEnglish

You can't imply that Ringo has no talent. Thomas the tank engine didn't have a voice before Ringo. Now all trains have a scouse accent.

God no, I wasn't implying he had NO talent, just that he wasn't among the most talented. Actually he is probably several rungs below the most talented, but yes, he was a brilliant Thomas the Tank Engine, and pretty good value on chat shows.

I'd rather have a few pints up the pub with him than the other two. Even if Lennon were still alive.

**AlfredJPruffock** · 8 December 2005, 15:03

Originally posted by wendigo100

God no, I wasn't implying he had NO talent, just that he wasn't among the most talented. Actually he is probably several rungs below the most talented, but yes, he was a brilliant Thomas the Tank Engine, and pretty good value on chat shows.

I'd rather have a few pints up the pub with him than the other two. Even if Lennon were still alive.

I dont think George would be much fun in the pub these days either Wendy.

Still Ringo did have his musical moments, like Octopiss Garden , and the famous ... Youre Fourteen ... vintage stuff.

**wendigo100** · 8 December 2005, 15:20

Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock

I dont think George would be much fun in the pub these days either Wendy.

Still Ringo did have his musical moments, like Octopiss Garden , and the famous ... Youre Fourteen ... vintage stuff.

I loved You're Sixteen ... yes, I got to admit Ringo sang some good songs too.

But it was the prodigious good songwriting that made L & M great.

No, I didn't mind George. Bit of a hippy though. Opened a Hare Krishna temple in Letchmore Heath near where I lived. Used to see them wandering about in their orange gear.

The Day the Music Died