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Lennon
Today is the 26th anniversary of John Lennon’s wildly premature death. Few incidents in my childhood marked me deeper than watching my peace activist/superfan mother completely break down when she heard the news, and the memory of that day is still astonishingly vivid and unsettling.
If you are a fan and you’ve never seen Imagine, I highly recommend renting it, though you should be prepared to bawl your eyes out at the end. That said, it might be hard to find a copy in stores today, so here’s a meager substitute:
And in effort to counter-balance all that misty-eyed sentimentality, please enjoy this clip of Lennon recording what is arguably the best revenge song ever written:
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Flamingbanjo--Yes, it is "How Do You Sleep At Night."
There's no "At Night" in the title there.
I meant to say, too, thanks for the clips.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
- yeah john, you mixed up "visionary", how do you sleep at night?
The early Lennon stuff has been at the top of my mind lately, so I'll have to go give it a spin this weekend.
When he died, the kids at the bus stop harrassed me a bit as that "Beatles lover" and ha ha, he is dead...and I honestly didn't believe them. I think I spent the 12 following hours after school listening to the news on the FM rock station.
good time to dig his solo stuff up.he did some wild stuff,even a show with Zappa
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Damnit, the embedded files aren't showing up on this computer, so I can only guess that the revenge song in question is "How Do You Sleep?," which is indeed a great song (featuring George Harrison on slide guitar, no less,) although also arguably pretty mean and a little unfair.