I'm Russell Kane, comedian and podcast host.
I'm also a massive John Lennon fan.
Music that cuts across generations. Is he the greatest popstar ever?
Or was he just a bit of a git.
In an interview in 1980,
he admitted that he was violent and cruel to women.
He said...
A drunken John once attacked Bob Wooler.
He was the man responsible
for introducing the Beatles to Brian Epstein, their manager.
Bob had been joking that
John and Brian were in an intimate relationship
and John just lost his temper, started hitting him
and he only stopped because he thought he was going to kill him.
Wooler was left with several broken ribs and admitted to hospital.
Lovely.
Does that sound like the bed-sharing "give peace a chance" hippie?
How can one preach love and practice hate?
If you really mean the love
you wouldn't be practicing something so vile and vicious.
Something else you might not know about John Lennon.
He wasn't a great dad either.
In fact he was pretty horrible to his first son Julian.
Julian said...
In fact, John Lennon hated his own son's laugh.
Once he turned to him and screamed,
"I can't stand the way you [BLEEP] laugh."
Lovely, day out with daddy anyone?
So maybe all this social campaigning,
all of this genius was just a PR campaign
to cover over what a nasty git the man really was.
I mean I love Yellow Submarine...
So was John Lennon a musical visionary genius
or a violent misogynistic bully?
You decide.
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