Kingpin
I do wish some people would realised that Lennon was no saint. I'll agree he did some peace stuff… but after what he did to his son I can't respect him.
I think someone's a dedicated a little too much to Lennon's memory.
I'm not a huge Lennon fan or anything like that, but I always have respected him for the song
Imagine. And I've looked a little bit up on Wikipedia about the controversy you're talking about. In defense of Lennon, the Wikipedia article states this: “In the same interview, Lennon said he was trying to re-establish a connection with the then 17-year-old Julian, and confidently predicted that ”Julian and I will have a relationship in the future.“” So yeah, it was bad how he distanced himself from his son. But the man died at only 40 years of age. He hardly had the chance to improve the relationship with his son. That quote by Lennon above was made shortly before his tragic death.
Egons_girlfriend24
I agree Lennon was a great song writer and singer. Big fan of the beatles. Growing up I learned that he quoted on tv that he was better than god. I was never really big on Lennon growing up. I was more into George Harrison. He was a great musician. And he was my favorite of the beatles.
And just to clarify a little on this, Lennon never actually said he was better than God. This too is explained pretty well on Wikipedia. To get all the details you might want to check it out for yourself(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_lennon#.22More_popular_than_Jesus.22_controversy), but I'll give a quote here from the article that best sums it up:
Lennon: “Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.”
So he was basically just saying that the Beatles were more popular to kids then than Jesus was, in England mostly. And with how crazy Beatlemania was back in those days, he couldn't have been far off from the truth.