What would Lennon be doing now?

BrianJD

Having spent the last week in New York and visiting strawberry fields it got me wondering?

Dad Rock like Paul?
Rolling Stoneish?
Would the Beatles ever have played together again, even for Live Aid?
Quit music for some sort of political peace roll?

Thoughts!

Android 666

BrianJD wrote: »

Having spent the last week in New York and visiting strawberry fields it got me wondering?

Dad Rock like Paul?
Rolling Stoneish?
Would the Beatles ever have played together again, even for Live Aid?
Quit music for some sort of political peace roll?

Thoughts!

Well, considering his last album was full of the most mawkish shíte I'd imagine he would have ended up peddling an enormous amount of tripe over the eighties and nineties.

Its easy to dismiss Paul as Dad Rock but he's probably the more interesting Beatle in my book. I hate the whole Plastic Macca persona and I'd say he's a bit of a cúnt but at least he's punctuated his career with some decent work - Paul McCartney 2, Fireman's Electric Arguments and so on.

Orando Broom

I suspect (for no good reason) he'd have followed trend after trend. He'd have done lots of dance stuff, ran for US Congress and appeared as a judge on American Idol.

Mr. Presentable

Jingles for TV ads.

Birneybau

Spinning in his grave..

nobby grande

Orando Broom wrote: »

I suspect (for no good reason) he'd have followed trend after trend. He'd have done lots of dance stuff, ran for US Congress and appeared as a judge on American Idol.

Thats pretty funny because in my opinion John Lennon invented dance music / big beat with Tomorrow never knows. The chemical brothers built their whole sound around that one track.
As for mawkish sh*te as stated above, yes he had some poor tunes, but he had some great stuff solo as well.
Serve yourself, John Sinclair, Nobody told me, Dream#9

He would have continued writing great tunes i suspect, along with a couple of beatles reformations. Anyway crying shame its left to guessing. True talent.

Orando Broom

nobby grande wrote: »

Thats pretty funny because in my opinion John Lennon invented dance music / big beat with Tomorrow never knows. The chemical brothers built their whole sound around that one track.
As for mawkish sh*te as stated above, yes he had some poor tunes, but he had some great stuff solo as well.
Serve yourself, John Sinclair, Nobody told me, Dream#9

He would have continued writing great tunes i suspect, along with a couple of beatles reformations. Anyway crying shame its left to guessing. True talent.

No he didn't, The Chemical Brothers and arch Lennon botherer Noel Gallagher just ripped it off for Let Forever Be.

I know you miss John Lennon and all that but you sayin he 'invented' dance music would be akin to me saying Wagner invented metal.

That song may have influenced one song by a band to sound fair enough the comparision is uncanny but dance music evolved way away from the influences of The Beatles.

Dance music's ancestors would pioneering funk bands whose sound evolved into disco.

nobby grande

There's many different styles of dance music as i'm sure you know. What i'm referring to is the 90's big beat, exit planet dust style of dance music. Keep your pants on there Orlando, you seem a bit defensive. Not up for rational discussion?

Orando Broom

nobby grande wrote: »

There's many different styles of dance music as i'm sure you know. What i'm referring to is the 90's big beat, exit planet dust style of dance music. Keep your pants on there Orlando, you seem a bit defensive. Not up for rational discussion?

Not with a Beatles fanatic, no.

Rational discussion would be a first. Please refer to above post for evidence.

nobby grande

Wow - beatles fanatic. How did you come to that conclusion in 2 posts. Not even close mate - just my opinion. Obviously anything that differs from your gets your back up. Look - imo the big beat thing was totally influenced from sampling tape loops and big beats as per TNK off revolver. This is not just my opinion, see - big beat wiki - Big Beat is also characterized by a strong psychedelic influence comparable to a wide range of artists from Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Jacques Perrey to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin to Funkadelic and the Acid House movement of the late 1980s.

Anyway Orlando - i'll leave you to your funk and disco.

Amazotheamazing

Probably still being a wanker while selling platitudes.

funkyjebus

yoko ono

JerryHandbag

funkyjebus wrote: »

yoko ono

Now theres a picture burned into my mind

PMI

lying on the beach of maui counting the royalties

pickarooney

He'd have invented a new music, one we'll never know.

Or he'd have made a couple of crap films and died of natural causes.

dutch1

He would of voiced a childrens programme in competition with Thomas the tank engine.

Bjorn Bored.

Well I reckon he would got together with Bono and Geldof and totally wiped out world hunger,then he would have sat around for a few frustrating yrs while the Bush dynasty were in power,only to make a big comeback with Obama and this time wipe out all wars and debt. Oh and I loved Double Fantasy.

Carcharodon

funkyjebus wrote: »

yoko ono

As Dennis Leary said

"We live in a country where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest. Yoko Ono is standing right next to him. Not one F**king bullet. Explain that to me! Explain that to me!"

Bjorn Bored.

Carcharodon wrote: »

As Dennis Leary said

"We live in a country where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest. Yoko Ono is standing right next to him. Not one F**king bullet. Explain that to me! Explain that to me!"

easily explainable, mr chapman didnt want to shoot ms ono.

Carcharodon

Bjorn Bored. wrote: »

easily explainable, mr chapman didnt want to shoot ms ono.

FAIL

Nolanger

He would have talked Paul out of marrying that Heather Mills slag.

Android 666

Nolanger wrote: »

He would have talked Paul out of marrying that Heather Mills slag.

I'd say he would have actively encouraged it!

'Try sleeping now ya bastid!'

ciaranmac

He'd be on twitter explaining himself to idiots who'd say his new stuff is just like Oasis.

2 Espressi

Screaming to be let out of the coffin…

Orando Broom

dutch1 wrote: »

He would of voiced a childrens programme in competition with Thomas the tank engine.

Michael the Monorail. His boss would be the Buff Controller.

ricero

him and paul would of had a fight to the death

PeterIanStaker

He'd be doing whatever Yoko Ono told him to do.

thesultan

nobby grande wrote: »

Thats pretty funny because in my opinion John Lennon invented dance music / big beat with Tomorrow never knows. The chemical brothers built their whole sound around that one track.
As for mawkish sh*te as stated above, yes he had some poor tunes, but he had some great stuff solo as well.
Serve yourself, John Sinclair, Nobody told me, Dream#9

He would have continued writing great tunes i suspect, along with a couple of beatles reformations. Anyway crying shame its left to guessing. True talent.

It was paul that brought in the tape loops to Tomorrow never knows

nobby grande

Yes they were mcCartney's tape loops, Geoff Emerick and George Martin's compressed drum samples and all four beatles manning separate tape machines. It was however, Lennon's creation and primarily credited to him.

Butch Cassidy

....he'd be relishing in obscure indie ghetto utopia....

KeanSeenan

Celebrating?