Articles tagged with: John Lennon
If you’ve ever liked a popular band such as B*Witched, S Club Juniors or Shed 7 then you’ll have realised that the press quickly stops running stories on them when they split up. The same rule of thumb however doesn’t apply if you happened to enjoy the titillating musical delights of The Beatles, though. Liverpool’s finest export have been delighting music lovers for generations. Their songs about peace, love and the results of multiple drug binges helped them to keep a presence in the public eye. During their career, The Beatles didn’t do much to piss anyone off, apart from the time John Lennon claimed that his band were "more popular than Jesus†in 1966. For 42 years, The Vatican has never forgiven the Beatle for what he said. But in a swift change of heart, they’ve decided to kiss and make up. Not literally of course, kissing the corpse of a dead man would be sick and wrong.
For a song that sounds like the call-waiting music you'd hear if you were phoning Satan, John Lennon's Imagine is still bewilderingly controversial. Recently a 15-second clip of Imagine was used in a weird creationist documentary by the man who played the teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and it caused Yoko Ono to hit the roof. Yoko sued the makers of the movie for copyright infringement, but it looks like she's been unsuccessful. Yoko Ono has now dropped the lawsuit against the movie, presumably because the use of Imagine was covered under 'fair use' rules. So it looks like it's one-nil to the creationists! You see, they're always right! Apart from, you know, all their basic religious tenants and stuff! But still! Party time!
As websites go, hecklerspray is one particularly bent on justice. For instance, we think Charles Manson should get another life sentence or two tacked on to that which he was already given. We'd like to see Ted Bundy get executed again, and for the love of Pete we think it high time Rachel Ray finally gets what's coming to her. What's coming to her is cookies or something. As far as we know she has never killed people on a mass scale, and deserves very little incarceration if any. Another piece of undeniable justice that deserves to be held high pertains to one Mark David Chapman. We think he killed Marilyn Monroe or something. Anyway, he was up for parole for the fifth time recently - and once again got denied. Probably because even seventy years later, people still really, really like Marilyn Monroe.
It’s fair to say that John Lennon was a bit of a musical genius. He and Paul McCartney momentarily stopped nicking cars and Hobnobs from the corner shop to write a whole load of pop tunes. These songs captivated a city, a country and later the whole world.
However, every successful star has a downfall, and he had a couple. But unlike today’s woozy musicians, like the moon crater face bloke from Keane, the copious amounts of drugs he took didn’t knacker him up. Instead, it was a stumpy Japanese woman called Yoko Ono.
Lennon and McCartney stopped writing together because Paul McCartney developed a fixation on John Lennon's hair that freaked John out - it's thought that She's Leaving Home was first called I Want To Stroke John Lennon's Lovely Hair.
And he wasn't the only one with a slightly unnatural obsession for John Lennon's hair - because this week an auction sold John Lennon's hair for $48,000. Not all of John Lennon's hair, you understand - that would be creepy - but just a lock of John Lennon's hair. A lock of John Lennon's hair in a bag that you can occasionally open and sniff, pretending that you and John Lennon are such close friends that he can put his hair in a bag and let you smell it. And that's what the mystery hair-buyer will probably do - either that or blast it into the sun, thereby creating an evil nuclear-powered John Lennon to brutally enslave the world with, like in Superman IV.
There's nothing like a list of people who earn more in a year than you ever will in your entire life even though they've been dead for years to inject some sunshine into your life, is there?
That's right - the annual Forbes Dead Celebrity Rich List has been published, and it's been another classic year for Elvis Presley. Elvis has managed to earn $49 million over the last year, $5 million more than his nearest rival John Lennon could muster. It's a triumphant return to the top spot for Elvis Presley, who was knocked into second place last year by Kurt Cobain, with industry experts claiming that this reflects the current public trend for favouring bloated corpses with blasted-open colons over miserable corpses with bits of their heads missing.
