The day John Lennon died, the world lost one of its greatest talents. However, it also cemented a legacy as well, because, shortly before Lennon died, he was making records so bad that people started to doubt the assumed wisdom that ears were an evolutionary advantage.
Basically, John Lennon’s death ensured that his quality output would always outnumber his criminal records (something which cannot be said for Paul McCartney).
However, the collective we can’t help but wonder what Lennon would have done had he lived. Would he have had another creative spurt which would turn music on its head? Would he have let Jools Holland play that awful boogie-woogie piano on his TV appearances? Yoko Ono has a theory and it involves him pissing about on the internet.
For reasons unclear, Ono has said that John Lennon would have approved of the internet. Of course, the internet would have gone ahead with or without the Beatle seal of approval, but y’know, he would have loved it all the same.
Whether he’d have massive hissy fits over illegal downloads and keep The Beatles’ back catalogue from appearing on Spotify and iTunes is a different matter altogether.
He definitely would have sat around watching loads of porn though, that we can be pretty certain of.
Ono said on The Andrew Marr Show:
“I think he would have been going very strong and creative still.
“I think he would have been very interested in playing [on] the computer because he always jumped on some new media and that is a very interesting new media.”
Playing on the computer? That prompts the image of a dribbling Lennon in a poindexter hat, haplessly poking at buttons and gurgling with glee at the flashing pop-adverts.
Anyway, seeing as we’re based on the internet and Yoko reckons that Lennon would approve of the online world, we’ll take that to mean this:
HECKLERSPRAY: Approved by John Lennon.
Jeff says
Congrats. Yoko also endorsed The Beatles and staying in bed with a bag on her head to end war everywhere forever.
Those things worked out just great.
Luka says
So so tired of McCartney bashing. His solo career includes some great records and some awful ones — just like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, and every other freaking artist out there. But I’d listen to McCartney’s best records (McCartney, Ram, Chaos and Creation, Electric Arguments) any day over anything John Lennon produced on his own.
Screw you haters.
nina says
mccartney bashing is sooo outdated!
anyone who said that he has not released quality records since the break up of the beatles is an ignoramus, that can be said of the writer of this article.! screw you lennon ass’ kisser!! paul is a much better musician and person than your hero!
Cookie Monster says
She meant that John would have taken to Modern Warfare and Halo like mushrooms to strawberry fields. That Jesus guy’s kill-death ratio would have been pOwn3d, had John lived. It’s too bad, as the rest of us have to suffer JC’s resurection hax along with his constant shit-talk on Xbox live.