Word: lennons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...People’s Party (Red Alert)” starts to layer the horns over a groovy, yet still camp bassline. One has to admire the talent of the Money man: Although he does recruit various friends on drums and suchlike (including Sean Lennon on electric bass), almost everything is played by himself, from flute to nylon guitar. The album might have benefited from the presence of some words (perhaps even delivered by a Beastie?) but that would have detracted from the monolithic simplicity of the groove, in which the keyboard (or Korg Triton, or arp odyssey synth...
When John and Paul were heavy-handedly questioning radicalism in “Revolution,” George was quietly reflective: “I look at the world, and I notice it’s turning, while my guitar gently weeps.” While Lennon read a book on Marx and loudly professed his doubts about capitalism and private property in “Imagine,” George had already written a better, more incisive, more believable song about what ails us: “All through the years, I me mine, I me mine...
...recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip...
When Joey passed, I made a few phone calls and talked to some friends and saw some of the same raw emotion I hadn't felt since John Lennon got shot in 1980. Joey was a good guy, a hero to punks and fans of punk; he was like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure...
...Lennon might assure Biegbeder, he's not the only one. A Time poll of 1,225 people between the ages of 21 and 35 in Germany, France, Italy and Britain found that a majority of young adults still identify themselves with their native countries. But close to one-third prefer to call themselves European; in Italy, the number is over 40%. And there are countless others who have tried on so many identities that they simply won't - or can't - choose among them...