From: norbertkosky69@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, February 5, 2024 at 6:55:02 AM UTC-8, Norbert K wrote:   
   > According to May Pang, when Apple representative Tony King met her and John   
   in Los Angeles, John gave Tony a tape of his new record "Mind Games" and asked   
   him for advice. He wanted to know how Tony thought he should promote the   
   album.    
   >    
   > King hesitated, then told John that he needed to "Let people know that   
   you're okay." John needed to abandon the angry persona he had been projecting   
   in interviews for some years and convey to the public that he was happy and   
   healthy.    
   >    
   > In his early-to-middle-period Beatles interviews, Lennon was humorous,   
   witty, and sometimes irreverent. By the late 1960s and particularly the 1970s,   
   something had changed. Lennon became resentful of his fellow Beatles and of   
   seemingly the whole    
   Beatles experience.    
   >    
   > John's resentment seemed to peak in the early 1970s -- in spite of his claim   
   that his 1970 album "Plastic Ono Band" was "the best thing I've ever done."    
   >    
   > I'm looking for theories as to what had transformed John into such an angry   
   person.   
      
   I think John was mimicking Yoko's resentment towards Paul (which was born of   
   his rejecting her advances) and the Beatles.  Yoko resented the Beatles   
   because they were (justifiably) successful while she was a laughingstock.     
      
   If you look at John's behavior and statements from his time with May Pang,   
   you'll be struck by how obviously his pride in his work and his friendliness   
   towards his former bandmates had temporarily returned.  Why?  Because he was   
   free of Yoko's control.     
      
   By 1980, all the anger and paranoia was back in spades.  John was giving voice   
   to Yoko's resentments.   
      
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