At The End Of The Day 295
Arthur Thacker
There's some cheeky fuckers knocking about, isn't there? That Mark
Chapman, him who was jailed twenty years ago for blowing John Lennon
away in New York, he says that he's served his time and that he should
now be released, because it's what John Lennon would have wanted. he
says that John Lennon was a peace-loving, forgiving man who would not
want to see him rot the rest of his natural away in some prison cell for
pumping seven bullet holes into his sorry Scouse hide. Er...well, if
it's what John Lennon would have wanted, let's ask John Lennon what he
thins about it, shall we?
Hello? John? Are you there?
No, sorry, Mr Chapman. We've asked John what he thinks and he doesn't
seem to have an opinion either way. You sick twisted fuck.
Mark Chapman says that, as a fan of the late great Beatle, he should be
given a second chance. Aye, like that "fan" of Jill Dando and that "fan"
of Gianni Versace. But you see, Mark Chapman has always maintained that
it wasn't his fault that he went and made a colander out of good old
John Winston in December 1980. Oh, no. Not his fault at all. He and his
attorneys (to say nothing of the sick twisted cunt's even sicker
followers) maintain that the person to blame for the killing is one
Holden Caulfield. Never heard of him? Well it's true. Holden Caulfield
told Mark Chapman to take a gun and blow the shite out of the mop-topped
Scouse icon. Indeed.
But there's one major flaw in the reckoning of Chapman and his
supporters. The one major flaw being that there is mo such person as
Holden Caulfield. Not in the real world anyway. You see, Holden
Caulfield existed only in the mind of his creator, the author J D
Salinger, who wrote the classic book in which he made his appearance,
'The Catcher in the Rye' So he's blaming the vicious murder on a
character from fiction.
Er...hello!!! Real life calling Mark fucking Chapman!
Stupid fucking cunt. He says that, because the book influenced him so
adversely as to go out and commit murder, he is not a danger to society
and ought to be freed to prove himself. Hehehehe. I only laugh because
you fucking have to laugh at such lunacy. I've read that book - 'The
Catcher in the Rye' - several times over, and there is fuck all in it
that would ever make me want to go out and kill a rock star, as much as
I despise Phil Collins. I wouldn't need to read some banned subversive
piece of American 20th century literature to take a semi-automatic to
that baldy cunt's arse, but that's besides the point.
Years ago there were loads of people going out trashing shopping centres
and stealing cars and crashing them, and all because they had read
something called 'A Clockwork Orange', written by some fat-arsed author
called Anthony Burgess. And the reason they went out and did such things
was not because of the book's controversial content; it was because they
were violent fucking headcases anyway. And the reason Mark Chapman went
out and shot John Lennon seven times at close range...it had fuck all to
do with some book he claims to have read and heard voices from; it was
because he is a sick and twisted, insignificant twat who was probably
shagged up the arse by his father and numerous uncles.
Then again...at the time of his capture, Mark Chapman had a "hit list"
of other rock stars whom he had every intention of similarly swiping out
before his murderous campaign was over. Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Rod
Stewart, Paul McCartney and Diana Ross...they were all on his list of
assassination victims. So I say let the bastard go. Set him free.
"Here, Mark...freedom, old son. And by the way...here's that list you
left with us. And here's a nice shiny new fucking gun for you to carry
on doing your dirty work with."
Remember that bloke who tried to kill Ronald Reagan? That John Hinckley
bloke? Well he tried to cash in on the Mark Chapman thing by saying that
it was watching the Robert de Niro film 'Taxi Driver' that had made him
want to shoot the president of the USA. And they found a copy of
'Catcher in the Rye' in his flat as well when the police ransacked the
place. There was quite a lot of it going about at the time.
A bloke in Detroit strangled three queers and said it was Hubert Selby
jr's 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' that had made him do it. Another chap in
Los Angeles tried to say that voices heard whilst reading 'Salem's Lot'
had caused him to go out and suck the blood of his victims.
More mundanely, the same thing was happening over here in this country.
Seventy-year-old Elsie Slagg of Billericay was sentenced to six months
in Holloway for stealing jam tarts from Marks & Spencer...and her claim
that she did it after reading chapter seven of 'Alice in Wonderland' was
thrown out of court. And when I got a suspended and five hundred quid
fine for smashing up a telephone box after a cup semi-final defeat at
Villa Park, nobody wanted to hear that I had only been driven to such a
state of lawlessness through reading the Birmingham telephone directory.
So it's a load of shit.
And what about that fucking nun up in Scotland? Did you hear about that?
She's just been prosecuted (and acquitted) for assaulting kids in her
care. It was alleged that she slapped children, force-fed them and threw
dirty underwear at them during her time at children's homes in and
around the Aberdeen area. At first I thought: Bit much is that. Slapping
kids, force-feeding them and chucking mucky skiddies at 'em...until I
heard that these allegations go back to a period between 1965 and 1980!
What the fuck's that all about? Christ, I went to Catholic schools in St
Helens between roughly the same years, all of them run by nuns and
priests, and that was pretty much what happened every fucking day! If I
went round prosecuting every nun, priest, brother and curate who ever
slapped me, force-fed me or threw anything at me I'd never have a spare
fucking minute to call my own.
You see, this sort of thing these days is labelled as "child abuse". But
it's not. Your parents do that sort of thing to you all the fucking
time, and doubtless there are still parents who do such things even now.
And more power to their elbows. But back then, corporal punishment was
legal. It was only in about 1982 that the fucking do-gooders got their
own way and corporal punishment was outlawed in state schools. So you
see, this nun was only doing what the law then allowed her to do. So how
the fuck can she be prosecuted now some thirty-five years hence? That's
fucking ludicrous, that is. Nothing more.
Seems that these days if you want to go around sticking things up little
kids' arses and cunts, they give you a slap on the wrist, together with
the reward of a nice new place to live...right next to a children's
playground and local school, and police protection so you don't get
hounded by rightfully outraged members of the public. But Christ help
you if you slap a kid's legs in public. Then it's your arse hauled up
before the beak, slung inside and your kids taken into care where they
can be sexually molested by social workers who fight for the rights of
paedophiles to live among us. And by convicted paedophiles who have
reformed and got a job down the local children's drop-in centre.
Is it me or has the world gone barking fucking mad?
We had a teacher at our school - Mr O'Brien - who used to paste you with
a fucking gym shoe across the arse as you bent over his desk right in
front of the rest of the class. And the cunt used to take a fucking run
up. Right from the other end of the classroom, he'd start. Then he'd
come hurtling at you and WHACK! And the look on his face while he did
it...I'm sure it gave him a fucking hardon. But was he abusing us? Was
he fuck. Do I feel abused for all the times I was forced to be pasted
black and blue for any minor academic misdemeanour committed? Do I fuck.
Teachers should be allowed - no, forced - to beat the crap out of kids
who don't behave themselves. Because as soon as we stopped pasting kids
who misbehaved in school...that was when we gave the little bastards the
upper hand in society. You don't go around fucking suing teachers who
beat you thirty years ago because the fucking law allowed them to do it.
That nun should be given a fucking medal for what she's done for
society, for all the little bastards she stopped from becoming bigger
bastards out there in the wider adult world.
Fucking cheeky hard-faced bastards.
--
Arthur Thacker
http://forum.onecenter.com/athacker
http://www.millersfield.demon.co.uk/archives.htm
Martin Lowe
>Is it me or has the world gone barking fucking mad?
>
>We had a teacher at our school - Mr O'Brien - who used to paste you with
>a fucking gym shoe across the arse as you bent over his desk right in
>front of the rest of the class. And the cunt used to take a fucking run
>up. Right from the other end of the classroom, he'd start. Then he'd
>come hurtling at you and WHACK! And the look on his face while he did
>it...I'm sure it gave him a fucking hardon. But was he abusing us? Was
>he fuck. Do I feel abused for all the times I was forced to be pasted
>black and blue for any minor academic misdemeanour committed? Do I fuck.
>
>Teachers should be allowed - no, forced - to beat the crap out of kids
>who don't behave themselves. Because as soon as we stopped pasting kids
>who misbehaved in school...that was when we gave the little bastards the
>upper hand in society. You don't go around fucking suing teachers who
>beat you thirty years ago because the fucking law allowed them to do it.
>
>That nun should be given a fucking medal for what she's done for
>society, for all the little bastards she stopped from becoming bigger
>bastards out there in the wider adult world.
I was thinking about this the other day.
We used to have this teacher who used to give you this big thump around the
head for what at the time seemed to be the most trivial of reasons, and I'm
*so* traumatised by it that I don't hold any kind of bad feeling or malice
towards this guy...so much that I have can't remember his name. Maybe I
should sue him...
Not letting teachers smack kids when they deserve it has been the biggest
factor affecting the quality of state education in the past thirty years.
--
Martin
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising
every time we fall" - Confucius
Martin Lowe
>Chapman, him who was jailed twenty years ago for blowing John Lennon
>away in New York, he says that he's served his time and that he should
>now be released, because it's what John Lennon would have wanted. he
>says that John Lennon was a peace-loving, forgiving man who would not
>want to see him rot the rest of his natural away in some prison cell for
>pumping seven bullet holes into his sorry Scouse hide. Er...well, if
>it's what John Lennon would have wanted, let's ask John Lennon what he
>thins about it, shall we?
Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper tune unless
McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame he
didn't get Yoko as well.
Paul Graham
Martin Lowe wrote in message
>>There's some cheeky fuckers knocking about, isn't there? That Mark
>>Chapman, him who was jailed twenty years ago for blowing John Lennon
>>away in New York, he says that he's served his time and that he should
>>now be released, because it's what John Lennon would have wanted. he
>>says that John Lennon was a peace-loving, forgiving man who would not
>>want to see him rot the rest of his natural away in some prison cell for
>>pumping seven bullet holes into his sorry Scouse hide. Er...well, if
>>it's what John Lennon would have wanted, let's ask John Lennon what he
>>thins about it, shall we?
>
>
unless
>McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame
he
>didn't get Yoko as well.
>
>--
>Martin
What a load of bollocks.
Help
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
In My Life
Girl
I'm Only Sleeping
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
Hard Day's Night
Julia
Because
Strawberry Fields Forever
Run For Your Life
Nowhere Man
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
It's Only Love
I Should Have Known Better
Dear Prudence
And Your Bird Can Sing
Across The Universe
Imagine
Jealous Guy
Woman
McCartney never had a fucking thing to do with any of those songs. Not a
fucking thing.
Nigel Swan
Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> writes
>
>Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper tune unless
>McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame he
>didn't get Yoko as well.
what a load of arse.
--
Nigel Swan
susie
>I was thinking about this the other day.
>
>We used to have this teacher who used to give you this big thump around the
>head for what at the time seemed to be the most trivial of reasons, and I'm
>*so* traumatised by it that I don't hold any kind of bad feeling or malice
>towards this guy...so much that I have can't remember his name. Maybe I
>should sue him...
>
>Not letting teachers smack kids when they deserve it has been the biggest
>factor affecting the quality of state education in the past thirty years.
1969 - 1974. Our school slap happy caner was Mr Walker. Science, was his
subject. He used to get up on the science lab tables and jump off,
swiping the cane cross the lads's hands on his way down. It was dead
thin like the top of a fishing rod.
It was a fucking status symbol to have the cane off him. The lads'd walk
round with their hands under their armpits on their way back to their
seats. But they'd walk with their backs to him grinning their heads off
and mouthing twat, cunt and fuck off, as they did.
Like in all schools, there were those who'd avoid the cane and fall in
line. There were those who got it once or maybe twice in the whole five
years there. And there those who courted it, stood up to it, and even
said "NO" when they were told to hold out their hands. Not because they
were frightened of it. But because it didn't matter how fucking much you
got it, it never broke your spirit. And I seriously doubt that it
mentally damaged the likes of Click, Taps or Spaz... who were never out
of Moose's office.
--
Susie *Score - don't score. The choice is yours.
http://www.millersfield.demon.co.uk/sinners.htm
Who's a naughty boy, then? Which players are gonna strip Susie?
Dunc.x.
Yesterday
Martha My Dear
Mother Natures Son
Rocky Raccoon
Lady Madonna
Happy Birthday
Your Mother Should Know
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Big piles of shit to the last...McCartney's finest hours in the Beatles are:
Being woken up by Lennon who drags his arse into a studio to do the bass and
drums for The Ballad of John and Yoko...
...For No One...
...being the whinging bastard who stopped Lennon burning out way too soon...
Tuppence duly chipped in...
--
Dunc.x.
You cannot imagine how difficult it is
To hold a half a gallon of moo-juice and polish the one-eyed-gopher
When you're doing seventy-five in an eighteen-wheeler.
I never thought missing children could be so sexy.
Paul Graham <miller...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Martin Lowe wrote in message
> >>There's some cheeky fuckers knocking about, isn't there? That Mark
> >>Chapman, him who was jailed twenty years ago for blowing John Lennon
> >>away in New York, he says that he's served his time and that he should
> >>now be released, because it's what John Lennon would have wanted. he
> >>says that John Lennon was a peace-loving, forgiving man who would not
> >>want to see him rot the rest of his natural away in some prison cell for
> >>pumping seven bullet holes into his sorry Scouse hide. Er...well, if
> >>it's what John Lennon would have wanted, let's ask John Lennon what he
> >>thins about it, shall we?
> >
> >
> >Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper tune
> unless
> >McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame
> he
> >didn't get Yoko as well.
> >
Dunc.x.
woody
lersfield.demon.co.uk> writes
I remember a particularly vicious temporary teacher when I was at
primary school. He got so infuriated with a particular pupil's inability
to answer a simple question that he hit him hard at the back off the
head. This caused the kid in question to bang his head on the corner of
the teacher's desk. The poor victim fell to the floor with blood pouring
from a deep gash. The teacher cried: "My god, what have I done now?".
Several stitches later the kid came back to school - the teacher,
however, didn't.
--
Woody
Wensleydale
Martin Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Not letting teachers smack kids when they deserve it has been the biggest
> factor affecting the quality of state education in the past thirty years.
Next time they get David Blunkett on Question Time I hope you're in the
audience to confront him with that gem of a soundbite :o)
W
P.Jewell
MHEREPLEASEntlworld.com> writes
>In article <%JXA5.112$L12...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, Martin
>Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> writes
>>
>>Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper tune unless
>>McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame he
>>didn't get Yoko as well.
>
... and he still fucking missed it...
--
P.Jewell
Pablo
Dunc.x. <Dun...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yesterday
> Martha My Dear
> Mother Natures Son
> Rocky Raccoon
> Lady Madonna
> Happy Birthday
> Your Mother Should Know
> Maxwell's Silver Hammer
>
> Big piles of shit to the last...McCartney's finest hours in the Beatles
are:
Rocky Raccoon - tune. As is Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Top Notch.
You're talking out of your ringpiece.
Pablo
"Afrika Shox"
Martin Lowe
<4l1B5.729$L12....@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>...
>Martin Lowe wrote in message
>>Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write
>>a proper tune unless McCartney was holding
>>his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame he
>>didn't get Yoko as well.
>What a load of bollocks.
>
>Help
>You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
>In My Life
>Girl
>I'm Only Sleeping
>You're Gonna Lose That Girl
>Hard Day's Night
>Julia
>Because
>Strawberry Fields Forever
>Run For Your Life
>Nowhere Man
>Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
>It's Only Love
>I Should Have Known Better
>Dear Prudence
>And Your Bird Can Sing
>Across The Universe
>Imagine
>Jealous Guy
>Woman
>
>McCartney never had a fucking thing to do with any of those songs. Not a
>fucking thing.
Damn right. Most of them are the worst songs the Beatles ever did. And how
many of the songs in your list were a) after the Beatles and b) any good?
None of them.
Consider this - "Hey Jude", which is supposed to be for Lennon's own son,
bears the distinctive stamp of McCartney.
Why do you think Lennon's "How Do You Sleep" has a go at his ex-writing
partner? Professional jealousy is obviously the reason. If you consider
post-Beatles solo work, McCartney's work pisses all over Lennon's from a
great height.
It's so cool to think of Lennon being the dominant writing partner out of
the two. But Lennon was *always* a triumph of style over substance - the
patient zero of the biggest fucking cancer to strike British music. I've
always admired your ability to differentiate the truth from the bullshit
Paul, but in this instance you couldn't be any more wrong if you tried.
Martin Lowe
A better question would be "Why do you have an adulterer and a paedophile
as the Chief Inspector of Schools?"
Art
She had long fingernails and one day I had a Refresher in me
mouth. She said, "Have you got sweets in your mouth?"
I said, "N...slerrushhh..Mislrlrlslslslrlslrllsl"
I can't remember what she said next, but she probably said "You lying little
twat"
Then she walked over to me and poked the top of me head with her finger
nail.
It didn't half hurt and I cried me eyes out.
The rotten fucking cow!
Arthur
< polite snip>
Art
You can tell how good a song is by the way that that tune will be in your
head
for the next 3 weeks.
C moon
C moon
Are we!
Heh heh
Arthur
Martin Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper tune
unless
> McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a shame
he
> didn't get Yoko as well.
>
Paul Graham
Martin Lowe wrote in message
Arseholes, Mart. You're talking shite. Great lyricist, McCartney, isn't he?
Even his biggest ever hit - the laughable 'Mull of Kintyre' - had to be
co-written with guitarist Denny Laine. But wait...cop this piece of
post-Lennon poetry from the brilliant Macca...
C moon
C moon
C moon
Are we?
C moon
C moon
C moon
Is she?
Exhilarating stuff there from the long-haired useless cunt.
Somone's knocking at the door
Somebody's ringing the bell
Someone's knocking at the door
Somebody's ringing the bell
Do me a favour
Open the door and let 'em in.
Fucking sheer unadulterated poetry, to say nothing of his 1972 stroke of
genius - putting music to 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' to prevent him from
having to tax his little brain to come up with any words of his own. Then
there's this.
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Yes, 'The Frog Chorus'. Truly a magnificent display of the man's musical and
lyrical genius.
But wait, there's more...
Jet Oooooooo ooooooooo
Jet Oooooooo ooooooooo
Jet Oooooooo ooooooooo
McCartney couldn't write decent lyrics if you stuck Alan Jay Lerner's brain
in his head and stuffed Oscar Hammerstein's corpse up his arse.
You think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
I look around me and I see it isn't so
You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
But what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
Cos here I go again.
Fucking stirring stuff there. Or perhaps you prefer that wank to the
inspired lyrical genius of Lennon's 'Imagine'.
Oh, and you should check your facts, Mart, cos you're talking to a Beatles
historian here. John Lennon never had a claim on the song 'Hey Jude'. It was
never a Lennon-McCartney composition. Paul McCartney wrote it for Julian
Lennon and John had nothing to do with it at all. And yes, there is the
distinctive hallmark of McCartney there...
La la la la la la la laaaaa
La la la laaaaaa
Hey Jude.
And on it goes for the next four fucking minutes.
I think that says it all, don't you?
Paul Graham
they way he behaved over the Beatles' split - fucking appallingly if the the
truth be told. What sort of cunt tries to garner the job of Apple boss for
his future father-in-law? McCartney wanted Lee Eastman to take over the
running of Apple Corps...and I wonder why.
He (McCartney) wanted sole control of The Beatles' managerial affairs, and
it's no wonder that the rest of the four wanted fuck all to do with him.
That's why Lennon wrote 'How Do You Sleep?' Me? I'd have been a lot less
kind to the underhanded Scouse twat. It had fuck all to do with
"professional jealousy" as you put it.
If it hadn't been for Lennon, the driving force behind the band, Paul
McCartney would still be playing pubs and clubs and thinking of what might
have been.
Paul Graham
evil-minded cunt you could ever imagine. He took great pleasure from pasting
kids, and doing it as hard and violently as he could get away with. You used
to go home covered in bruises from that twat, and you were that scared that
you told your mam and dad that you got 'em playing footy.
I always swore that if I ever saw him when I grew up I'd kill him with my
bare hands. And years later I did see him. But I felt sorry for him cos he
was only doing his job. And he was dead small as well, and frail looking. A
bloke my size would have killed him, so I didn't bother.
But he was one holy motherfucking cunt and no mistake.
Art wrote in message <8r4d3b$3uj$1...@plutonium.btinternet.com>...
>We had some right mean arsed bitch at our primary school.
>She had long fingernails and one day I had a Refresher in me
>mouth. She said, "Have you got sweets in your mouth?"
>I said, "N...slerrushhh..Mislrlrlslslslrlslrllsl"
>I can't remember what she said next, but she probably said "You lying
little
>twat"
>Then she walked over to me and poked the top of me head with her finger
>nail.
>It didn't half hurt and I cried me eyes out.
>The rotten fucking cow!
>
>
>Arthur
>
>
>
>< polite snip>
>
Art
Paul Graham <miller...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Our old headmaster, Mr Curran, was a right fucking twat. The most
> evil-minded cunt you could ever imagine. He took great pleasure from
pasting
> kids, and doing it as hard and violently as he could get away with. You
used
> to go home covered in bruises from that twat, and you were that scared
that
> you told your mam and dad that you got 'em playing footy.
>
> I always swore that if I ever saw him when I grew up I'd kill him with my
> bare hands. And years later I did see him. But I felt sorry for him cos he
> was only doing his job. And he was dead small as well, and frail looking.
A
> bloke my size would have killed him, so I didn't bother.
>
> But he was one holy motherfucking cunt and no mistake.
>
I'd like you to continue talking like this, Paul. This is obviously helping
you in some way.
I really think we're on the verge of a breakthrough with your 'problem'
So lets go back a bit further and tell me again about when you found your
father in bed with the postman.
Dr Arthur
Johnny Talbot
Martin Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Written by John Lennon.
1971 from the album of the same name by John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band.
> >Jealous Guy
Written by John Lennon.
1971 from the album of the same name by John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band
> >Woman
Written by John Lennon.
Released 1980 from the album "Double Fantasy"
> >
> >McCartney never had a fucking thing to do with any of those songs. Not a
> >fucking thing.
Right with the three mentioned above. Nothing.
>
>
> Damn right. Most of them are the worst songs the Beatles ever did. And how
> many of the songs in your list were a) after the Beatles and b) any good?
>
> None of them.
Three.
Martin Lowe
>For your information, Mart. 'How Do You Sleep?' was a dig at McCartney and
>they way he behaved over the Beatles' split - fucking appallingly if the
the
>truth be told. What sort of cunt tries to garner the job of Apple boss for
>his future father-in-law? McCartney wanted Lee Eastman to take over the
>running of Apple Corps...and I wonder why.
>
>He (McCartney) wanted sole control of The Beatles' managerial affairs, and
>it's no wonder that the rest of the four wanted fuck all to do with him.
>That's why Lennon wrote 'How Do You Sleep?' Me? I'd have been a lot less
>kind to the underhanded Scouse twat. It had fuck all to do with
>"professional jealousy" as you put it.
McCartney is still cheesed off that the royalties from public broadcast of
most of the Beatles' work goes to Michael Jackson...originating from Lennon
signing rights away. Apple Corps was a mess of a business. It's not
surprising that he wanted someone who knew about business to take over and
try and protect their livelihoods rather than pissing it up the wall.
You don't need to be a historian to know that there's always two sides to
every story.
>If it hadn't been for Lennon, the driving force behind the band, Paul
>McCartney would still be playing pubs and clubs and thinking of what might
>have been.
You suggest that Lennon would have been incredibly successful in his own
right. Ridiculous. The Beatles' best work combines both of their songwriting
abilities. But even then, there's more of a distinctive mark from McCartney
than Lennon.
Neither of their solo work compares to their joint efforts. But in their own
rights, McCartneys post Beatles stuff is still better music than Lennon's
identikit pedestrian efforts. Most people won't say that though - simply
because it's not cool to say so.
Martin Lowe
One person's "lyrical genius" is another person's "plodding trite whimsy".
Must be an age thing.
>Oh, and you should check your facts, Mart, cos you're talking to a Beatles
>historian here. John Lennon never had a claim on the song 'Hey Jude'. It
was
>never a Lennon-McCartney composition. Paul McCartney wrote it for Julian
>Lennon and John had nothing to do with it at all.
Exactly. He had to have someone else write a song for his own son.
What a cunt.
>And yes, there is the
>distinctive hallmark of McCartney there...
>
>La la la la la la la laaaaa
>La la la laaaaaa
>Hey Jude.
>
>And on it goes for the next four fucking minutes.
>
>I think that says it all, don't you?
The fact that you have to mock the lyrics of a CHILDREN'S SONG shows how
bankrupt your argument is.
Songs are allowed to have more in them than just words. And - unlike
poetry - lyricists are allowed to repeat words again and again. Are you
going to have a pop at Bob Dylan for constantly repeating "knock knock
knocking on heaven's door"?
Interesting that you didn't talk about the music. There's a lot more
happening in songs like "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Band On The Run" and "Jet" than
anything Lennon did.
It's indicative that bands like Oasis who go on about the "genius" of Lennon
make statements like "everything's been written" and put out the most dull,
plodding, pedestrian wank going in homage to their musical hero - who wasn't
even that good in the first place. Still, dying young has always been a good
career move.
Dunc.x.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:20:49 +0100, "Art" <man...@btinernet.com>
wrote:
Dr Arthur
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In article <VUef+VA1oN15Iw$z...@ntlworld.com>, Nigel Swan
<nigel.swan@NOSPA
MHEREPLEASEntlworld.com> writes
>In article <%JXA5.112$L12...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, Martin
>Lowe <marti...@nespampasntlworld.com> writes
>>
>>Lennon was a complete fucking wanker who couldn't write a proper
tune unless
>>McCartney was holding his hand. Chapman did us all a favour. Just a
shame he
>>didn't get Yoko as well.
>
>what a load of arse.
... and he still fucking missed it...
Paul Graham
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Paul Graham
TELLINS BORN AN TELLINS BRED