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Cee Lo’s Controversial New Year’s Eve Version Of ‘Imagine’

Posted by majestic on January 2, 2012

Cee Lo Green’s taking a lot of heat from fans of religion and John Lennon, with both groups vying for his blood. The controversy surrounds his substitution of “Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too” to “Nothing to kill or die for, And all religion’s true” in Lennon’s 1971 classic song “Imagine.” He then tweeted “Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that’s all” (since deleted). Here’s the performance from New York’s Times Square, shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, lyrics conveniently subtitled:

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Was John Lennon A Closet Republican?

Posted by BananaFamine on July 2, 2011

John Lennon

Photo: Roy Kerwood (CC)

Via the Toronto Sun:

John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death — according to the tragic Beatles star’s last personal assistant.

Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon’s death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.

In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn’t the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.

He says, “John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.

“He’d met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event… Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe,…

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Imagine Free Thought (Video)

Posted by bluemana on July 1, 2011

Holy macaroni, read the full comment thread here and comments -> there. I guess most over at Facebook, throw an open mind out the window.

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John Lennon Would Be 70…

Posted by ralph on October 9, 2010

Enjoy.

Never gets old for me: John, George, Paul, Ringo. Great job.

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John Lennon Plays Dead in Beatles Last Photoshoot

Posted by disinfogreg on February 23, 2010

Prophetic and creepy. See more photos at dailymail.co.uk

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An apparently lifeless John Lennon lies on the ground, his fellow-Beatles by his side. The haunting picture was taken in 1968 – 12 years before Lennon was gunned down by a crazed fan, Mark Chapman, in New York City.

It was one of many images taken by society photographer Tom Murray during the Fab Four’s last official photoshoot in 1968, which lay forgotten in an envelope for decades.

It was among a number of photographs which were made public today after lying forgotten about for years.

‘From two rolls of film there are 23 surviving shots. The colours are astonishing and it’s basically because the original slides were kept in the dark in an envelope for so many years.’

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Glenn Beck Talks the Beatles’ “Revolution”

Posted by ralph on January 26, 2010

I actually don’t think Glenn Beck believes the Beatles were secret maoists; it’s just his latest attempt to turn the word “progressive” into the f-word. He’ll make any possible connection in order to do that. Oh well, it’s fun to play both clips together and wait and see if Glenn Beck’s head will explode:

But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright…

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know know it’s gonna be alright…

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Beatles Songs Finally Available Online (Get ‘em While You Can)

Posted by majestic on November 4, 2009

Variety reports that dinosaur record company EMI is trying to stop online media company Bluebeat from selling Beatles recordings. The law may be in EMI’s favor so if you want to buy Beatles songs for download online, now may be the time…

An obscure website is brazenly offering the Beatles’ music for sale digitally, much to the dismay of EMI, the group’s record label.

Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat.com apparently began marketing the Fab Four tracks — hitherto unavailable from online music merchants — at lowball prices late last week.

EMI, which distribs Beatles recordings via an agreement with the group’s music company, Apple Corps, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles. Company also issued a curt statement: “EMI has not authorized content to be sold on BlueBeat.”

BlueBeat is a division of Media Rights Technologies, a diversified Northern California digital media distribution firm. Execs at Media Rights Technologies…