The Beatles Bible - Topic: The Lives of John Lennon

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 23:17:05 +0100

JFKin60 said:

I'm looking for that exact quote about 98 percent...I don't keep everything I read but I hope to stumble across it in a few...

In my mind, Yoko didn't sue because most of what he said was accurate and might have put her up for a drug trial in the aftermath...

I would NEVER believe anything Yoko said anymore, anyway.

Goldman's most damning critic was Spitz, who was his friend even after the book.

Much obliged!!!
Again, that's only her official story. I don't know the truth, although I think the heroin stuff was probably true (with her.)
You do need to take her word ...

JFKin60 on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 23:10:58 +0100

I'm looking for that exact quote about 98 percent...I don't keep everything I read but I hope to stumble across it in a few...

In my mind, Yoko didn't sue because most of what he said was accurate and might have put her up for a drug trial in the aftermath...

I would NEVER believe anything Yoko said anymore, anyway.

Goldman's most damning critic was Spitz, who was his friend even after the book.

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 22:59:35 +0100

Her lawyers said that if she sued it would be giving the book attention she didn't want given to it. As for May Pang, could you provide a link please? (Not challenging, just want to read another interview of her.)

JFKin60 on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 22:52:23 +0100

mr. Sun king coming together said:

It is a historical fiction almost. Almost none of this is true. It doesn't hold up.
*9*

Again...May Pang said just about all of it was true, at least pertaining to the parts she was involved in...

Don't you think Paul, Yoko, Martin and a few others are trying to keep John's name clean?

Also, Yoko did NOT sue!

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 19:57:12 +0100

It is a historical fiction almost. Almost none of this is true. It doesn't hold up.
*9*

JFKin60 on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 28 May 2011 19:51:46 +0100

I read most of the Goldman book and have to say it's the most exciting book on The Beatles I've read...

Clearly, Goldman went into this to tear Lennon down, although Lennon did a pretty good job of that himself throughout his years, especially the mid-70s...

Goldman made glaring mistakes (like listing two people, one of them Paul's brother, as unidentified in a photo) and was ripped for his choice of sources and taking many quotes out of to context...

Spitz laughed at what how his friend Goldman embellished while using the quotes his sources gave him. Goldman, apparently, gave Spitz the full ...

Von Bontee on The Lives of John Lennon

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:51:50 +0100

mr. Sun king coming together said:

She did try to control John in the early 70's but It stopped working after Sometime in NYC

Von Bontee said:

Ha, I see what you did there!

mr. Sun king coming together said

I don't.

"…but it stopped working after some time in NYC" – it's a double meaning! "J&Y spent some time in New York City recording an album called Some Time in New York City."

GniknuS on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:54:18 +0000

Well, wasn't Mr. Lennon quoted as saying the same thing in his 1970 Rolling Stone interview? But skye is right, what were they supposed to do? So they sold out to a certain degree by cleaning up their act and by playing the same set night after night. But that's music, you have to learn the rules and play the game, but still be able to bend the rules, which the Beatles certainly did from the very beginning starting with interesting chord progressions and progressing to their innovations in the studio.

skye on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:58:58 +0000

I think it's kind of a stupid thing to say anyway. So what, were they supposed to continue playing dive bars and living off the good will of their families? Would that make them more "authentic"?

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:27:45 +0000

Okay, hands up if you felt the Beatles sold out in 1963. Nobody? Well, Mr. "I'm retarded" Goldman claims they did. I hate him.

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:19:49 +0000

Von Bontee said:

Ha, I see what you did there!

I don't.

Von Bontee on The Lives of John Lennon

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:21:14 +0000

Ha, I see what you did there!

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:12:36 +0000

She did try to control John in the early 70's but It stopped working after Sometime in NYC

Lets pretend we just cant see her face on The Lives of John Lennon

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:56:30 +0000

mr. Sun king coming together said:

Zig said:

This article is about 9 years old, but it says Sam & Yoko split up in Fall of 2001.

He probably became a little too independant for her liking.

HAHAHA!

mr. Sun king coming together on The Lives of John Lennon

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:07:52 +0000

Zig said:

This article is about 9 years old, but it says Sam & Yoko split up in Fall of 2001.

He probably became a little too independant for her liking.