Re: Hunter Davies re John Today


"Frannie or Schwartz" <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> frparella@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Thought this was interesting...
>> >
>> > http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article318040.ece
>>
>> What an excellent read! Realistic, too - he doesn't puff Lennon up for
>> the folks who worship him.

Writing bull*** has nothing to do with deflating worshippers. The fact is
anyone can and many have written these kinds of "what-ifs", every single one
of them nothing more than imaginative exercises in creative writing, no
more. If you think this has any value, or if you think anyone who doesn't
subscribe to these post-death analyses deserves your snide swipe says far
more about you than any worshipper.


>>
>
> What a load of crap! Hunter Davies is desperate to get back into Paul's
> good graces, and to retain his title ("only authorised Beatles
> biographer")... there can be no other explanation for this incredibly
> insulting and stupid statement:
>
> "Still rich and famous, certainly, as even John at his wildest could
> not have spent all the monies which have since flooded in. The further
> we get from the Beatles, the greater their importance and influence has
> become. But it's often forgotten now that at the time of John's murder
> in 1980, he had become a bit of a joke figure.

This statement above all leapt out. Pure crap. This is as much fiction as
his post-1980 blather. John had been out of the public eye for five years,
no one was thinking much of anything about him except the eternal hope for
some sort of reunion. This clown is ten years off in his line of when John
was considered a bit of a joke...1968-1974. Lost weekends, peace stunts,
Yoko...for someone who supposedly knew the man a bit he sure seems to get
everything wrong.
>
> He'd disappeared somewhere in America, something of a recluse, with
> that funny, dopey woman, doing silly dopey things, taking lots of
> drugs, not having produced anything for years, what a shame, what a
> waste. His sudden, tragic death catapulted him back into our
> consciousness - and to the reality of what he had given us.
>
> [Utter and complete bull*** - straight McCartney Party Line brand]

Wny brand Paul with this crap? This is being done by someone entirely
removed from Macca's camp. But you simply cannot avoid slamming Paul at any
turn.


I reluctantly agree overall with Francie. This whole article, like any
"what-if" is pure literary wanking, it has no basis in any reality
whatsoever, as we'll never know what someone would do after they're gone.


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