Some people are betting that, to live even John Lennon would not be the legend that is now.
Others, however, suggest that Britain was capable enough to deal with so many Vietnam as he crossed the road and today would be one of the most acclaimed live musical figures in the world.
Son of divorced parents, born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, education Anglican, stories and melodies of Elvis Presley scored the child who later would become one of the greatest composers.
The Beatles would be the path. Since the pair with Paul McCartney is historically the most relevant rock is already possible to know in detail the participation of everyone in the compositions usually attributed to both.
So, we know that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (from the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967), "Strawberry Fields Forever (Magical Mystery Tour, 1967) and" Come Together "(Abbey Road, 1969), among others, are entirely of Lennon.
In 1970, the musician is clear from the band and traces his own path. After three experimental albums, released to the world John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band. Him stand the shrill "Mother" and "Working Class Hero", which calls for the fight.
goes a portion thereof, that some relate to the compositions of Bob Dylan:
"Since you're born they make you feel small / Why do not you give time rather than give it all / Till the pain is so great that do not feel anything / You could be a working class hero.
"I do harm at home and hit you at school / They hate you if you're smart and you make a fool / Till you're so stupid you do not understand anything / could be a working class hero. "
that year, Lennon tells Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone, the situation then:
"I like the music in person, but for more complex and much more only very occasionally wrote specifically about myself. Now everything I write is about me. And I like that. This music is me, and nobody else. "
also publishes books: In His Own Write ", in 1964, and" A Spaniard in the Works ", the following year. Composed of short stories and drawings, including Lennon shows a rich inner world that is around nonsense and naivete.
His second solo album, Imagine, 1971 would be the most popular. From there it follows the famous piece that gives title to the production and encourages long for a world without possessions, countries or religions, in the midst of the Vietnam War. Behold
value Lennon lyrics: put the talk of pacifism and confrontation with authority. Taken
everyday situations and their own biography, Lennon said more choices and paths of many outlets.
The next album, Some Time in New York City, of more direct political court, it would bring bad reviews and would lead the FBI to open the file. Mind Games, 1973, would be better received. The song that is named reiterates its message of harmony.
"We're playing those mind games together / pushing the barriers planting seeds / mental guerrilla playing / singing the mantra of peace on earth / We've all been playing those mind games forever / druids are kind of making floating the veil / by the guerrillas mental / some call it magic the search for the Holy Grail. " That's
Lennon. At least most like Lennon "Love is the answer and surely I know," he says in that song. "Love is a flower you got to let grow."
would come Walls and Bridges and the covers Rock 'n' Roll, produced in the "Lost Weekend" period of separation Yoko Ono and also has a Mind Games. Then, Lennon and Yoko would devote five years to her and their son Sean.
appears in 1980 Lennon's last album Live: Double Fantasy, production that reconciles with the criticism. Leaving him two singles: "(Just Like) Starting Over" and "Woman."
In the first part: "It's been so since we took time / is not the fault of anyone / I know that time flies by, / but when I see you, dear / is as if we were falling in love again / be like start over, start again ...".
no affectation in his lyrics. Timely reflect the pleasure of reconciliation and harmony that lived then.
From "Woman", "Woman, I know you understand the little boy inside a man / please remember my life is in your hands / and woman, hold close to your heart / however, distance does not keep us apart" .
The third single from Double Fantasy came out after the murder in the Dakota building, "Watching the Wheels", a beautiful piece that depicts him as it was at that time.
"People say I'm crazy to do what I do / Well, I have given all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin / When I say that I am well, they'd look a little weird: / 'Surely you are not happy now that more you play the game. "
"People say I'm lazy / to take my life in dreams / Well, I have given all sorts of tips / designed to 'enlighten' / Well, I say I do well / by looking at the shadows on the wall / ' Do not waste your time, boy, will not always be strong '.
"I'm just standing here / watching the wheels go round and round / I really love to see their money / No more trips to the' little train of happiness' / It's just that and let him go. "
do a lot different songs from the biography of its author. Other parts that enrich the album is" Beautiful Boy ", dedicated to his son, and" I'm Losing You " .
Years later, the market launch Yoko Milk and Honey, by Lennon with Double Fantasy, Live in New York City, the second in vivo after Live Peace in Toronto 1969, and Menlove Avenue, made from discarded and old versions .
Lennon Who would not have crossed paths with Mark David Chapman's mad and now have 70? Impossible to know.
What I know is that the legacy of this poet who believed in giving a new chance for peace, 30 years after his death, is so large and challenge at the same time timeless. Perhaps for centuries. Published
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