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John Lennon = not deserving of his legend

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Grug said:
How this man got labelled as a visionary genius of peace and a wonderful humanitarian is beyong my comprehension.

If you read up accounts of his private life he is revealed to be a purile excuse for a human being. He treated his first wife like a piece of filth, treated his son as a mere plaything and source of amusement, drove Brian Epstein to suicide and lived like a revolting, demented man child for much of his life.

His flirtations with concepts of peace and love were just mere phases he went through and overall he lived a completely self serving existance and put alot of people through misery. Unfortunately history has a way of misreporting the truth.

Over-bloody-rated.

He wasn't a 10th of the man Dylan is, or even Geldof.

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Lennon is way overrated as a person, but you can't deny his music. (At least I can't.)

"Imagine" is a stupid song, I admit, compounded by his hypocrisy, but what a tune!

Ignatz Mouse said:
PS: Don't anybody be putting down Geldolf.
I like you.
It's Geldof, btw.
 
Odd, it has never been proven that Epstein committed suicide, let alone that Lennon drove him to it. He was addicted to prescription drugs and overdosed on them. If he committed suicide, having to stay in the closet and having a reduced managerial role with the Beatles were more likely causes than Lennon allegedly calling him a, "rich Jew fag".

I don’t believe he beat his wives, but he did admit to beating up girls when he was a teen. He said he regretted deeply, and he sang about peace to overcome his inner anger. He treated his first wife badly though, cheated on her with hundreds of groupies, and worst of all Yoko. He never wanted to marry her in the first place, it was a shot-gun wedding, not that it makes his actions excusable. He also neglected his first son badly.

I always believed that Lennon was a hypocrite. Maybe Lennon was two people, the one he was, deeply flawed, and the one he wished to be, a hippie saint. I really don’t care. His 15 years as a recording artist are unmatched as far as I’m concerned.
 
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