This week I found myself rediscovering my vinyl collection once again. It's a joy to actully sit and listen to a whole album in it entirety, the form in which it was intended to be heard rather than a single track within a playlist on an iPod. Of course my favourite Beatles' albums were given a spin. The first one up was 'Rubber Soul' one song in particular got me thinking...
John Lennon was not always the angel people like to think he was. Since his death and canonisation little has been said about his bouts of questionable behaviour. In his formative years he had more than his fair share of fisticuffs, later on he wasn't very respectful of his first wife and child, especially while partaking in no-end of shenanigans in Hamburg.
He publicly ridiculed disabled members of his audience. He was a tyrant professionally, often bullying and lambasting the other members of The Beatles and those around them. He drank heavily and later on in his life had a prolonged heroin addiction. I'm not judging him, I'm saying that there was more to his character than a yearning for love, peace and understanding. He occasionally accepted responsibility for his actions and wrote his regret into songs, cleverly shrouding his bloops with poetic embellishments with sugar coated wordsmithery and instrumentation. One of the finest examples being the fine song 'Norwegian Wood' More...
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John Lennon was not always the angel people like to think he was. Since his death and canonisation little has been said about his bouts of questionable behaviour. In his formative years he had more than his fair share of fisticuffs, later on he wasn't very respectful of his first wife and child, especially while partaking in no-end of shenanigans in Hamburg.
He publicly ridiculed disabled members of his audience. He was a tyrant professionally, often bullying and lambasting the other members of The Beatles and those around them. He drank heavily and later on in his life had a prolonged heroin addiction. I'm not judging him, I'm saying that there was more to his character than a yearning for love, peace and understanding. He occasionally accepted responsibility for his actions and wrote his regret into songs, cleverly shrouding his bloops with poetic embellishments with sugar coated wordsmithery and instrumentation. One of the finest examples being the fine song 'Norwegian Wood' More...
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