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Would John Lennon...
Posted by bricameron on 21 May 2010 - 9:37am.
forgive Mark David Chapman? I think he would.
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I doubt it
I know I wouldn't. Would you?
I think somewhere up there in heaven...
he's singing "How do you sleep, you cunt?"
And he isn't aiming it at McCartney.
What !
So JL goes, "Awright Mark - thanks very much for cutting my life short by 40 years - It was a pile of crap anyway & I never achieved much..."
Bollocks
God, this perception of Lennon as some kind of Scouse Ghandi, dishing out forgiveness, is tiresome.
Indeed
If he can write "How Do You Sleep?" - with the added C-word - about a former close friend & creative partner; what is he likely to say to the nutter who'd just painfully ended his life?
Paul agreed.
"He could be an manoeuvring swine, which no-one ever realised. Now since his death, he's become Martin Luther Lennon. But that wasn't him either. He wasn't some sort of holy saint."
Not a chance
Why would he? Why should he?
i read somewhere
That as he lay dying on the gurney in the hospital corridor, someone took his hand and did some Zen-type incantation related to passing into the next world. And no, it wasn't Goldman's book....
I think there's no WAY he would forgive him...to rob a man of the chance to see his son grow up is something that can never be forgiven. Yoko certainly hasn't and won't. 'I'd make love to Hitler,' indeed...
Good to see you around again mvps!
To rob a son of his father is even worse
No. Chuffing. Way.
Sorry, but this is one of the most ridiculous questions I've ever read.
Would He
balls
"It took me
two years but I can go out this door right now and go into a restaurant. Do you want to know how great that is? Or go to the movies? I mean, people come up and ask for an autograph, but they don't bug you"
Yeah he'd thank the man who would take advantage of that kind of contentment it had taken years to achieve.
He would have primal screamed him back to the stone age
I read in Cynthia Lennon's book
one of the Beatles talking about the "terrible price of fame". That's an understatement given what happened next with John & George. Viewed in retrospect, this is a chilling piece of film. Watch from 4 mins in.
Jesus.
I'm no HJH devotee, but that's both chilling and incredibly moving. I mean, clearly the guy JL's talking to isn't anywhere close to being the shilling, but - JESUS. It must have been terrifying for Lennon, that kind of situation - I'd be petrified. But he deals with it so brilliantly and humanely. Although that might be because there's a camera there - maybe he'd normally have released the winged monkeys.
(Damn. No YouTube of Mr Burns releasing the winged monkeys. Ah well. You'll just have to imagine it.)
are you hungry?
Remember when I got the VHS of that years ago I watched and rewatched that line til I nearly broke the review button.
Was trying to find that
clip the other week to illustrate a point I was making. whether or not thats the real Lennon or not I don't know although he and Yoko filmed so much of their lives at that point maybe he didn't care about the cameras anymore.
There are bits of the Imagine footage where he is clearly playing up to the cameras - the breakfast with George talking about the other Fabs using codenames.
Only if Yoko allowed him to
I say that as a BIG fan (of John´s, that is).