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reminder that the surname lennon means âblackbirdâ

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"Dear John, by the time you read this I will already be dead, but I hope it will not be too late to fill the gaps in your knowledge of your old man which have caused you distress throughout your life. Of course, your only source of information has been your aunt Mimi, who, for reasons best known to herself, refrained from telling you anything about me. Perhaps the revelations in my life story may bring you a clearer picture of how fate and circumstance control so much of our lives and, therefore, must be considered in our judgment of one another. Until we meet again, some time, some place, your father, Freddie Lennon."
â Alfred Lennon's letter from his own autobiography that was sent to John Lennon after his death in 1976. From "John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band" book.
skywriting by word of mouth, john lennon
am i crazy for feeling like this references paul
does anyone else constantly think about âshe loves youâ being sang at the end of âall you need is loveâ and âhello goodbyeâ being hummed at the end of âtwo of usâ
Crashing out over these early handwritten lyrics to "It's Only Love", shared by @thedissenters back in 2021. There's so much that was left out! And it's passionate and revealing! John talking shit about his lyrics for this song later on makes even less sense now, seeing as he was working on more complex, personal lyrics at the time.
This song was not throwaway, and this gives more support to my theory that post-breakup he denigrated it specifically because it was personal to him and dealt with the tempestuous vulnerability of his relationship with Paul.
Also, spot the increasingly messy and hard-to-read handwriting - the quote from the Hunter Davies bio comes to mind: "When I did any serious poems, like emotional stuff later on, I did it in secret handwriting, all scribbles, so Mimi couldn't read it."
New life mission: reclaim this gorgeous and heartfelt song from the crap John talked about it, from a place of pain.
Transcribed lyrics Strikethroughs from the text preserved. Uncertain words in square brackets.
I get high when I see you go by, my my, oh my When you sigh my [...] inside just flys, [like] butterflies Why am I so glad shy when I'm beside you It's only love and that is all Why should I feel the way I do It's only love and that is all
Can't explain or name I [think] in pain, [hurt] again I'm ashamed the flame of love is maimed, now and then You're to blame, the same as I I'll complain in vain, and I'll still love you
Though it's true Is it right that you and I [are blue baby blue] should fight every [night] In Through my plight the sight of you is bright [than the night] [Write] the slights away, we'll make it up girl

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this is so funny to me
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âYes. That's mine. I wrote it. It was getting hard to be someone then. I was grossly overweight and needed help and only one critic/reviewer ever spotted it and it was A Aronowitz in the New York Post. He said 'Johnny' or whatever he was calling me, is crying out for help. And I didn't realise that I was at the time. I was just writing a song for the movie. I wrote it 'Bam! Bam!' like that, and got the single.
It was really getting weird then. The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension and I was eating and drinking like a pig and I was fat as a pig, dissatisfied with myself and subconsciously crying for help. It was like the Fat Elvis period. You see the movie, he's very fat, very insecure and completely loss of self.
I'm singing about when I was younger and all the rest of it. Now the positive thing is, yes, yes, I'm very positive. I also go through deep depressions where I'd like to jump out the window, you know? I am an amazingly emotional person. It's becoming easier to deal with as I get older and I realise, I try -I don't know whether control is the right word - or l've grown up a little, or you calm down a little but the swings and the motion from ecstatic highs to suicidal depressions are actually physically and mentally wearing and I've always had it, all my life.
I remember Maureen Cleave, a writer - the one who did the famous 'We're more popular than Jesus' story in the Evening Standard - asked me, 'Why don't you ever write songs with more than one syllable?' So in 'Help!' there are two- or three-syllable words and I very proudly showed them to her and she still didn't like them. I was insecure then, and things like that happened more than once. I never considered it before. So after that I put a few words with three syllables in, but she didn't think much of them when I played it to her, anyway.
I don't like the recording too much; we did it too fast, trying to be commercial... I might do 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'Help!' again, because I like them and I can sing them.â
â John Lennon on the song Help! and his mental state
Never seen before footage of John Lennon in Greece, November 1969. Video by Yoko Ono.
The footage will be officially posted on April 18th.
(But now and then) But every now and then I feel so insecure (I know that I) I know that I just need you like I've never done before
(Help!, 1965)
I was feeling insecure You might not love me anymore
(Jealous Guy, 1968/1971)
He did put it that way; he was âriding on the boat called Paul, and now Iâm going to ride on a boat called Yoko.â
(Yoko Ono, May, 2003, interview with Paul Trynka for MOJO)
Well you burn all your boats And you sow your wild oats Well you know, you know, you know the price is right! Got to get down, down on my knees
(Going Down On Love, July-August 1974)
I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared As the years roll away And the price that I paid And the straws slips away
(Scared, 1974)
Somebody please, please help me You know I'm drowning in the sea of hatred
(Going Down On Love, July-August 1974)
Hatred and jealousy, gonna be the death of me I guess I knew it right from the start
(Scared, 1974)
Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me?
(Help!, 1965)
if i hear one more âskinny and evilâ joke about john lennon istg

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i think the answer to most âwhy was john lennon like thisâ questions is that both of his parents abandoned him and then had second families. like that literally explains everything
George wanted to be John and John wanted to be Paul and Paul wanted to be an infallible godlike version of himself that existed only in the minds of his fans and therein lies the tragedy
John Lennon + Phil SpectorÂ
âPhil wanted control,â May [Pang] remembers, âThatâs basically what it came down to. And he kept holding John at bayâlike, Itâs my show, not yours. It was an ego trip. Fucking with Johnâs head. It was unbearable, because I could see the pain in John from this.â One night, Spector arranged to meet at Gold Star to do some vocal overdubs. Lennon arrived, only to pass the evening with Gold Starâs boss Stan Ross, waiting in vain for Spector to turn up. âWe kept phoning saying, âWhere are you?ââ Ross remembers. âAnd Philâd say, âIâll be there in ten minutes.â And an hour later itâd be the same thingââIâll be there in ten minutes.â At the end of the evening I said to John, âItâs been a pleasure and Iâm sorry we couldnât do anything.â He said, âHeâs a prick.â Next day I called Phil and asked him, âWhat happened?â He said, âOh, I had problems and couldnât leave.â
At one stage in the evening, Lennon had a heated telephone exchange with Yoko back in New York and smashed the receiver against the mixing board, causing some minor damage. Spector later offered to pay Ross for the repair, but Ross decided to keep the desk in its damaged state, âas a souvenir.â
On another night, Lennon became so drunk that Spector was obliged to abandon the session altogether. With George Brandâs help, he bundled Lennon into a car to take him back to Lou Adlerâs house.
âThey got John upstairs into the bedroom, John was going, âCome on, Phil, I love youââin a drunken, melancholy way. And George was sitting on top of him. In Johnâs mind, I think he thought he was getting into some kind of three-way sex situation. He couldnât tell what was happening. So he freaked out. They brought me upstairs and I was in shock to see that theyâd tied John up. He was screaming at me. âThis is it!â I said. âWhat did you guys do?â They said, âDonât worry, heâll be okay, just let him sleep it off.â
Phil and George left, with John upstairs screaming every awful thing you could imagine. Everything he wanted to say about Yoko was just coming out. It was just anger at everybody, Phil, Yoko, everybody.â
In desperation, May summoned Tony King to help. By the time King arrived, Lennon had broken free of his ties and was standing at the front door, bellowing, King remembers, âlike a mad bull. I got him in the house and he was a mess, sobbing, saying, âWhy did they do it, how could they do that?â Then all of a sudden he started fighting me. We were rolling around on the floor. Finally I got him where I was laying on top of him with his arms pushed out to the side, my face six inches away from his, and he was in some kind of blackout. He looked up and saw my face, and he said, âI didnât know you were that strong, dearâŚâ We both ended up laughing. And that broke it. The house was just a wreck; windows broken, Carole Kingâs gold records were all over the floor, bent out of shape; Louâs collection of silver-handled walking sticks were scattered everywhere. The next day we went off to breakfast, and John just kind of laughed it off. He said, âWell, that was a funny night, wasnât it.â I thought, All right for you to sayâIâve got to repair the bloody house.â
~ Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector.Â
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âWhen he did work, John had a great work ethic. He liked to be on time and work, work, and work. Phil Spector was different. At times he would come into a session two or three hours late, dressed in some costume. One night he was a doctor, the next night a karate expert. He drank heavily. He drank a bottle of Vodka every night and held everybody at bay by screaming at them. I hated when he popped those nitrates. They smelled like dirty socks and he would pop them under everyoneâs noses.
The worst scene happened one night when Phil was playing his âI am Godâ routine. He took away Johnâs glasses, so John had no idea where he was. He literally was frothing at the mouth. John was screaming and he thought that he was being put into this sexual gay thing because Philâs bodyguard George was trying to tie him up. He thought he was going to do something. He was kicking and screaming. Nothing happened, but it was terrifying to John.âÂ
~ May Pang in Lennon Revealed by Larry Kane.
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âPhil, if youâre going to kill me, kill me. But donât fuck with me ears. I need them."Â
~ John Lennon (Spector had shot one of his many pistols into the ceiling of a studio bathroom after having tied John up, drunken and raving.)
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âI was at the A&M studios with my brothers (The Hudson Brothers) and everyone knew that Lennon was in the big studio with Phil Spector, and through the walls you could hear Spector just going off on John. One time, Spector pulled out a large gun and started chasing John through the hallways. John was trying to laugh it off, but it was horrible. I mean Spectorâs reputation had preceded him. I was scared to death.âÂ
~ Mark Hudson in Lennon Revealed by Larry Kane.
That Bowie worshipped Lennon is no secret. He'd banged on about it often enough. The ex-Beatle had gone to his hedonism. They'd met in Los Angeles, during John's Lost Weekend. I lunched from time to time with David in New York while working there as a music journalist, before he married Iman. He lent me his house in Mustique, to write the first draft of my first biography on Freddie Mercury.
The crazy pair went out to play, according to David, when John was on yet another break from May and far away from Yoko. They genderbender-ed about, John indulging again that 'inner fag' of his. What larks.
They later 'hooked up': 'There was a whore in the middle, and it wasn't either of us,' David smirked. 'At some point in proceedings, she left. I think it was a she. Not that we minded.' By the time they made it back to New York, the ambisextrous pair were 'lifelong friends'.
The Search for John Lennon by Lesley-Ann Jones.
sometimes i randomly remember that double fantasy was a flop at the time of johnâs death and i feel sick

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rubber soul johnny my beloved
Robin Blackburn: "A lot of Beatle songs used to be about childhood..." John Lennon: "Yeah, that would mostly be me..." Robin Blackburn: "Though they were very good there was always a missing element.." John Lennon: "That would be reality, that would be the missing element. Because I was never really wanted. The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was ânormal.' " Yoko Ono: "...and happy." John Lennon: "The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?' "
â John Lennon for the Red Mole Magazine, February 12, 1971.