It's a myth sweetikins... just a big myth... and haven't you noticed how many of us Queers are into chains and leather, whips and torture? (not me, but I've met a few)
I have gone to Strawberry Fields in central park for this anniversary before, which is right across the street from the building where he lived. People show up every year to honor his memory. Very cool, relaxed hippie-type vibe. I was thinking of going tonight too, but goddammit it's cold out!
He was a modern-day poet.
Strawberry Fields
When they lived in the nearby Dakota on 72nd Street and Central Park West, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, adopted this landscape as their favorite oasis in the Park.
Hardly a day goes by without some remembrance of John Lennon being placed upon the mosaic - a rose, a poem, a candle, a bouquet of flowers
http://www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/southend/strawberryfields
If John was with us at this time with the world in turmoil, I like to Imagine that this is what he would say...
John Lennon
Give Peace A Chance
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
Isn't it the most
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about
Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters and canisters,
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.
Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Oh Let's stick to it
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan,
Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Wow, 25 years ago I was 9 years old. I didn't even like his music until the last five years. Now I can't get enough of it. It's really a shame that when people speak up about things that they see are injustice in the world they become targets for assassination.
I wonder what would be different if he had lived. I kind of think his activist days were winding down and that he probably would have been more reclusive in his later years. Maybe campaigning for a few presidents like other celebrities.
Darby Crash from the Germs also died today. Lead singer of a very famous L.A. punk band.
I was watching the Tonight Show. They suddenly interrupted it, with one of those special news announcements. They said Lennon had been shot. This must have been only a half hour or so after it happened, so they didn't say he died.
I remember sitting there stunned. Then about twenty minutes later, they came on again and said he was dead. I had a feeling of total disbelief.
Who would want to kill a musician? For what possible reason?
