From: norbertkosky69@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 12:19:01 PM UTC-8, oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2023-12-20, Norbert K  wrote:    
   >    
   > > However, as his best friend Pete Shotton phrased it, John    
   > > Lennon turned his life into a "continuous acid trip" --    
   > > only to end up surrounding himself with predatory nuts.   
   > It can happen to the best of us here on Planet Predatory Nuts.   
   > > Can you imagine the John Lennon who once labored alongside    
   > > Paul McCartney at the piano in search of *just that right    
   > > chord* dribbling a two-chord piece of drivel like "Give Peace    
   > > a Chance"?   
   > Clearly not his finest work. And yet even in his alongside    
   > McCartney days did he manage to output "Run For Your Life",    
   > which he openly despised. I think one of the things I loved    
   > most about him was his willingness to take artistic chances.   
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   Yeah, but you don't really think that "Run For Your Life" is on par with "Give   
   Peace a Chance," do you?  There's much to like about the former song.  Even if   
   you don't like RFYL, the bulk of John's work from that time is among his   
   best.  By the time of    
   GPAC, he was a spent (or a drug- and Yoko-addled) force.      
      
   John bashed "Run For Your Life" in the Playboy interview, which was really a   
   publicity campaign aimed at promoting Yoko, so I'm not sure he really believed   
   the song to be bad.  It was in this interview that John claimed McCartney   
   subconsciously sabotaged    
   his (John's) songs, and that a couple of his dreary, musically vacant songs   
   were on par with his best Beatles songs -- in other words, he was spewing   
   falsehoods and absurdities.     
      
   Yet, during interviews and his guest-DJ stint in 1974, John's pride in his   
   Beatles work returned.  Why?  Because he was aay from Yoko.     
      
   If John had not fried his mind on acid, I believe, he would not have touched   
   Yoko (or Alex Mardas, or Allen Klein) with a ten-foot pole.  And his creative   
   work would have stayed on track.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)