From: norbertkosky69@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, February 12, 2024 at 7:11:41 PM UTC-8, geoff wrote:   
   > >On Monday, February 5, 2024 at 9:55:02 AM UTC-5, 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.   
   > He always was the slightly bolshie antagonistic member, right from the    
   > very early days. And probably to a degree since childhood.    
   >    
   > Just became more extreme as 'time moved on'.    
   >    
   > geoff   
      
   He was always provocative (e.g., doing impressions of Hitler before German   
   audiences), but the character of his interviews changed post-LSD and Yoko.     
      
   Lennon was proud of his Beatles work when Yoko wasn't around.  For example,   
   during his guest DJ gig in 1974, he played the Stones' and Beatles versions of   
   "I Wanna Be Your Man" back-to-back to demonstrate the superiority of the   
   Beatles' version.  On that    
   same occasion, he played solo hits by McCartney and Harrison.     
      
   Yet when he was back with Yoko, his seeming resentment towards the Beatles was   
   back.  He dismissed much of it as "rubbish" that had not been recorded   
   properly; claimed his solo stuff held its own against his Beatles songs; said   
   that a Beatles reunion    
   would be "boring"; and claimed that McCartney had subconsciously sought to   
   "sabotage" his (Lennon's) work.   
      
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