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3.01pm
13 April 2011
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Hi all .. I’ve been away for ages, I know
.. but just to let you know I gave an adapted version of my John Lennon lecture to some 15 year olds in a school last Saturday and it went very well.
They were surprisingly knowledgeable about JL (with a few clichés too!), which was good to hear.
We listend to just a half a dozen songs and I was quite overcome when they all joined in with Merry Xmas (War is Over)!
4.55am
1 May 2010
Offline Hey I’m glad your presentation was very succesful!! congrats!! 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
8.14am
13 April 2011
Offline mithveaen said
Hey I’m glad your presentation was very succesful!! congrats!!
cheers Mith!
1.10am
13 November 2011
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I wish there was a John Lennon lecture over here. No one knows who he is except me and my friend. (I’m 13, so I meant people my age don’t know.)
"Time wounds all heels."
-John Lennon
8.14am
13 April 2011
Offline The Strawberry said
I wish there was a John Lennon lecture over here. No one knows who he is except me and my friend. (I’m 13, so I meant people my age don’t know.)
These kids knew stuff like “he was in The Beatles” and “he was married to Yoko Ono” and “he’s dead” . .which was fair enough. Of course I had to educate them on some of the finer points without going into too much detail.
They seem quite taken by the ‘bed peace’ idea!
Someone asked me if we could listen to “Let it Be”, but I had to say . .er, no .. not really a JL song!
2.00am
13 November 2011
Offline Did you go into things Pre-Beatlemania? Like Stuart, and Julia ?
"Time wounds all heels."
-John Lennon
2.26am
17 March 2012
Offline People at my school don’t even know that he was in the Beatles! Or any cliches! Can’t you come to my town, too, to teach these unknowledgeable children about music history?!
4.09am
13 November 2011
Offline Everyone here can’t name any of The Beatles! I bet if you asked them what is Abbey Road , they wouldn’t know.
"Time wounds all heels."
-John Lennon
8.52am
13 April 2011
Offline The Strawberry said
Did you go into things Pre-Beatlemania? Like Stuart, and Julia ?
Not so much in this particular talk, although I did mention JL’s traumatic family issues as a small child. I showed them the bit from Nowhere Boy where they are recording In Spite Of All The Danger , where John is obviously in anguish and there are ‘flashbacks’ of him dancing with Julia .
I went more into this aspect, and Stuart, in the original talk I did last year which was more adult orientated. Most people didn’t know about these aspects of JL’s life.
8.53am
13 April 2011
Offline LennonCloset said
People at my school don’t even know that he was in the Beatles! Or any cliches! Can’t you come to my town, too, to teach these unknowledgeable children about music history?!
haha! I would love to … ! Where in the world are you???
