The Real John Lennon
Though John Lennon is known through out the world as a 'Peace Activist' Turns out the real John Lennon may not have been into Peace and Love as much as he claimed.
Now I LOVE John Lennon he is my favorite Beatle but I am going to make this as fair as possible.
I find that a lot of the time the arguments about John's life have been extremely one sided.
The movie 'Nowhere Boy' that gives people a false impression on John Lennon's upbringing, Seriously. ( It's a good movie but don't believe a thing from it because after reading Cynthia Lennon's book and Julia Baird book I know that everything in that movie was a lie. >.<) or this one for example:- Click here Literally makes John look like the nastiest person to walk the face of the earth, when in actual fact half of those facts probably aren't true. Anyway lets get started.
be warned now some of these facts aren't going to be pleasant for you Lennon worshipers!
While growing up John did had a difficult life.. being taken away from his Mother must have been hard on him but he did have a relationship with her. In the movie Nowhere Boy it is made out that John didn't have a relationship with her until he was in his teens and that's just not true, The truth is Julia and John had a close bond. Julia came to visit him almost daily and spent a lot of time with him. When he started school, Julia and Mimi would walk him there or he would sometimes go with his Uncle George.
When John got into heavy drugs. He did a lot of stupid things, The public had lost all interest in him. The Beatles had split and no one really cared anymore so John did things (Just like Aunt Mimi said in her interview in 1981) for attention, He wanted a reaction. The Two Virgins cover for example. He also became a compulsive liar, denying things that the public already knew about. Like..
He never married Cynthia, that he doesn't have a clue who she is.
That Julian wasn't his son.
That he was a middle class working boy from Liverpool, who had a rough childhood.
He met Yoko at a art show and they fell madly in love and decided to get married.
When in actual fact..
He did marry Cynthia, He proposed to her and said he wanted to be a real family, that he loved her and the baby. Cynthia told him that he could leave and she would raise the baby by herself but John was the one who said they had to get married. Not Cynthia. They had been dating for three years before hand so he knew who she was.
Julian is 10000% John's son.. all you have to do is look at his face! That should be proof.
John may have came from a broken home but he certainly did not have a rough childhood. Mimi and George bought him the best clothes, the best bikes got his hair done nicely, bought him smart glasses anything they could possibly do they did for him. As Mimi put it "He never lifted a finger a day in his life."
Okay, lets get this sorted right now.. I'm not Yoko's biggest fan.. She's not my cup of tea and I'm not going to pretend to like her but I will be as nice as I possibly can.
Yoko met John at a art exhibition in London. John was looking at one of her pieces of work and Yoko asked him who he was. although she probably knew Gold digging W**** He told him who he was and said he liked the her work, then spent the evening talking whenever they bumped into each other. From then on out Yoko spent months stalking John and sending him letters. When his first wife Cynthia found the letters John laughed it off and said it was a just 'A Crazy Fan'. Cynthia knew that there was more to the story than John would tell and she started noticing a woman with long black hair following them around everywhere. Even on family holidays.
When Cynthia came back home to find John and Yoko in bath-robes, clearly stoned out of there brains all John could say is "Oh Hi." The next day when John had came down from his high and Yoko had left John begged Cynthia for forgiveness exclaiming "It's You I love Cyn! Only you! You where away and I needed a quick shag that's all it was! Please don't leave me Cyn Please!" Cynthia stupidly gave into him but while on holiday with her Mother and Julian, 'Magic Alex' had flown out to tell her Yoko was pregnant and that John was filing for divorce taking Julian and taking all her money away from her. John Lennon filed for divorce and moved in with Yoko Ono in 1968.
John the dad.
Julian
Up until the divorce John seemed to be a good dad to Julian. John was away all the time, touring or in the studio whenever he came home he would stay in bed and sleep until two in the afternoon then spend sometime with his family.
Here is a segment to describe how John treated Julian.
Emotionally Abused His Son.
Without question, the greatest victim of Lennon’s character failings was his oldest son, Julian. Lennon clearly resented the young boy whose conception had forced him into a marriage he didn’t want and trapped him in a domestic routine he was too immature and narcissistic to sustain. Both Julian and his mother Cynthia have publicly stated that Lennon was alternately absent, indifferent, drug-addled, and generally unpleasant to be around during Julian’s early childhood. After he divorced Cynthia, Lennon took off with Yoko Ono and dropped out of his son’s life for years. After they reconnected, Lennon severely emotionally abused his son on several occasions, berating and screaming at him until the boy was reduced to tears. Once, Julian giggled and Lennon shouted back, “I hate the way you fucking laugh!” Julian was not yet a teenager at the time. In perhaps the saddest statement ever made about Lennon, Julian later stated that Paul McCartney was more of a father to him than his real father was.
Taken from Top 10 Unpleasant Facts about John Lennon
Julian confirmed on his website that that John did yell at him a lot and tell him that he hated the way he laughed.
Sean
Although Sean was quite little when John died, They didn't seem to have much of a relationship. Although Lennon claimed to while had a break from music he baked bread and cared for Sean, the truth is he stayed locked away in his bed room in a drug induced haze, writing music and watching tv. Sean raised by babysitters and Yoko (When she wasn't working.)
Though it is clear that John favored Sean because he was Yoko's he didn't really spend time with him or bond with him before he died, Which is such a shame.
Peace and Love
John Lennon's real interest in 'Peace' didn't really occur until The Summer of Love in 1967. He always had a interest in stopping war and having world peace but he never really expressed it until then. When John and Yoko got together they spent most of their time singing about Peace or going to protests and constantly campaigning to stop fighting and start loving. Which was a horrendously hypocritical act, as it turns out John Lennon himself was funding The Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. Though they claimed to be all for Peace and Love and Black Power just like John, The Black Panthers where a very dangerous organisation causing damage and destruction where every they went. Killing people who thought differently than they did and just generally causing destruction.
Hypocrite
I have come to the conclusion that John Lennon was a very big hypocrite and I know that's hard for you to understand, as a fan you want to think of him as this bright shining star whom despite his faults was still this amazing, almighty lyrical god, who was misunderstood by the whole world when in fact that is simply not the case. John Lennon went around preaching 'Love is all you need!' to everyone but couldn't show any to his own family?
A man who wanted no fighting, no wars. But beat woman?
A Man who let drugs rule his life and just a terrible role model.. Will that stop me loving him? NO!
In my eyes John Lennon was a amazing human whom had great talent. Doing this blog report has REALLY opened my eyes up to the real John Lennon. A angry, heartless man who cared me about getting high than being with his Son and Wife. Who let his wife talk for him and control his life, a gutless shell of a man who let drugs change him and make him lose everything he once valued.
-Emma x
