Shocking Footage Of John Lennon Mocking The Disabled

Custardpi · 21-09-2015 10:06PM

Is there anyone left at all whose music it's acceptable to like without offending people? I'm thinking maybe Taylor Swift & Daniel O'Donnell but that's about it.

fryup · 21-09-2015 10:06PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

The man knew he had problems himself. I'll let him say a few words.

yes Lennon was a complex man with a troubled upbringing his cruel sense of humour was his way of masking his own emotional pain... but thats what made him so remarkable

ClovenHoof · 21-09-2015 10:12PM

I agree, he should have been shot.

FloatingVoter · 21-09-2015 10:20PM

The "Alright in the 60s" thing is being repeated on Channel 4 now. I've just watched Woody Allen in a boxing ring taking on a Kangaroo. Before that it was three lads shooting live rounds at a bloke from a distance of 6 feet.

Class TV back then.

PARlance · 21-09-2015 10:37PM

Custardpi wrote: »

Is there anyone left at all whose music it's acceptable to like without offending people? I'm thinking maybe Taylor Swift & Daniel O'Donnell but that's about it.

Enjoy listening to Daniel while you can. He'll be dirt in a few weeks when he ditches Majella and starts layings pipes into some Russian dancer.

PARlance · 21-09-2015 10:39PM

ClovenHoof wrote: »

I agree, he should have been shot.

I see what you did there... you're JfK'ing

Eugene Norman · 21-09-2015 10:43PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

How can you excuse someone making fun of disabled people?

How can you listen to his music ever again?

Shame on you.

No. shame on you for posting that video in an attempt to promote ( despite what you say) making fun of the disabled. You sicken me.

Skid X · 21-09-2015 10:48PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

How can you excuse someone making fun of disabled people?

How can you listen to his music ever again?

Shame on you.

Could you list out the artists who you do like?

I'm sure we could dig out some dirt on them so you can add them to your "never listening to them again" list.

If you stay in the public eye for long enough you are going to do or say something which is frowned upon. Especially if someone dredges through your material 50 years later to judge it against standards which will have changed several times over since then.

Datallus · 21-09-2015 10:48PM

Satan is Real wrote: »

Sorry op, your heroes might not necessarily be very nice people. I'm a big Jimi Hendrix fan but I've read he could be a drunken woman beater. Still who cares when the music's good?

Isn't it pretty accurate to say at the heart of every genius there is a sliver of humanity that makes us all reel in disgusted terror?

Whatever about the video in the OP (which is what, 7 seconds of what looks to me to be innocent-enough "playing to the crowd" sort of nonsense?), I was never a huge fan of John Lennon or the Beatles, but they were pretty popular in their day, so I suppose it would be fair to say they had a good bit of recognisable talent.

At his best, Lennon was a poet who could turn words and music into art. At his worst, he could be vapid, shallow, hectoring and bizarre. And while knowing a bit about his private life would leave one cold, there can be no disputing his limpid best. His work with the Beatles became the face of a culture which has given birth to the myriad delights which we as a generation feast upon without a second thought.

But saying that a 7 second kiddish skit would make one never listen to his music again, or make one want to kill him, is absurd in the extreme.

Wibbs · 21-09-2015 10:59PM

Datallus wrote: »

But saying that a 7 second kiddish skit would make one never listen to his music again, or make one want to kill him, is absurd in the extreme.

These days D, some who are looking for offence have run out of it, so are looking to mine offence in history. Oh and the Beatles also gave the Nazi salute from their hotel balcony on their first German and Austrian tour. To a crowd whose parents were likely part of that guff. And it was "controversial" even at the time, but the crowd went wild. They saw the joke, the young's rejection of the old nonsense.

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:06PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

I've decided I will never listen to the Beatles EVER again after seeing this video.

The footage shows Lennon contorting his hands and legs and slurring like a disabled person.

John Lennon was clearly a sick evil scumbag and I am glad he is dead.

I hope millions of people never listen to his music again.

That's a bit strong. I used to do that when I was younger.

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:13PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

How can you excuse someone making fun of disabled people?

How can you listen to his music ever again?

Shame on you.

When you think about a disabled person making fun of another disabled person does your head explode?

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:16PM

Bet the OP likes Frankie Boyle though.

and still ricky villa · 21-09-2015 11:18PM

And to think they named an airport after him.
At least Belfast airport is named after a true saint. .

Datallus · 21-09-2015 11:18PM

petrolcan wrote: »

That's a bit strong. I used to do that when I was younger.

Play in the Beatles?!

josephryan1989 · 21-09-2015 11:19PM

petrolcan wrote: »

When you think about a disabled person making fun of another disabled person does your head explode?

The scumbag was an able bodied person making fun of disabled people.

End of.

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:22PM

Datallus wrote: »

Play in the Beatles?!

God no. I played with the beetles.

RDM_83 again · 21-09-2015 11:23PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I feel sorry for the OP when he discovers that

Elvis - was no friend of the vegetarian. He may even have eaten one or two in a burger.
Frank Sinatra - was friends with people who did a line in concrete boots.
Phil Spector - it would be easier to list the sins he didn't commit.
Jerry Lee Lewis - took kissin' cousins to a whole new level.

Add in

Eric Clapton had a seriously racist rant

Steven Tyler had the parents of a 15/16 year old groupie sign over guardianship to him

David Bowie flirted with facism

toptom · 21-09-2015 11:23PM

Sure he was into the drugs too. Awful man.

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:23PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

The scumbag was an able bodied person making fun of disabled people.

End of.

I'm an able bodied person and I've made fun of disabled people.

Am I a scumbag too?

and still ricky villa · 21-09-2015 11:26PM

petrolcan wrote: »

I'm an able bodied person and I've made fun of disabled people.

Am I a scumbag too?

Does making fun of Jedward count? If yes, we're all going to hell

josephryan1989 · 21-09-2015 11:29PM

petrolcan wrote: »

I'm an able bodied person and I've made fun of disabled people.

Am I a scumbag too?

Yes.

NachoBusiness · 21-09-2015 11:31PM

jimgoose wrote: »

No comparison in fairness. Sure Dury himself was disabled and the song was written in protest to (what he saw as) the patronization of disabled people when they made 1981 International Year of the Disabled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSo9OErEmM4

...Lennon on the other hand was just being a cunt.

FloatingVoter · 21-09-2015 11:34PM

Here's Woody Allen boxing a drugged Kangaroo*. From the same 60s clip show. Next week Channel 4 airs "Alright in the 90s" - when Oasis and Blur (two passable Beatles cover bands) when to war. The tedium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPqvqPIGFts

*if the Kangaroo was anything near fully fit, we'd have about 40 less Woody Allen movies to ponder.

petrolcan · 21-09-2015 11:39PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

Yes.

Even when they've made fun of me first?

StringerBell · 21-09-2015 11:40PM

John Lennon in being a dick shocker

AllGunsBlazing · 21-09-2015 11:56PM

To be fair there was quite a bit of revisionism applied to Lennon's legacy after his murder. His solo work was almost universally panned at the time of its release and was thought of as being a bit of a pompous dickhead by the mid 70's.

Skid X · 21-09-2015 11:59PM

inforfun · 22-09-2015 10:15AM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

I've decided I will never listen to the Beatles EVER again after seeing this video.

The footage shows Lennon contorting his hands and legs and slurring like a disabled person.

John Lennon was clearly a sick evil scumbag and I am glad he is dead.

I hope millions of people never listen to his music again.

Taking a wild guess here but i guess you were born in 1989?

You shouldnt have such strong opinions about stuff that happened in a time when you were not even an itch in your dads ball sack.

You would be very very busy otherwise with pointing out all the baddies from the past.

Also wondering.... who of the modern artist do you like?

Wibbs · 22-09-2015 10:31AM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Add in

Eric Clapton had a seriously racist rant

Steven Tyler had the parents of a 15/16 year old groupie sign over guardianship to him

David Bowie flirted with facism

There's a Beatles outtake of their song "Get Back" where McCartney sings anti Pakistani immigrant stuff, using the lyric "get back to where you once belonged" to full effect.

Speaking of underage groupies Jimmy Page of Led Zep spotted a fourteen year old girl one night(where the hell were her folks??) and got one of his lackeys to get her back to his hotel where he kept her around for months. Elvis' future wife Priscilla was another fourteen year old when their relationship started. Marvin Gaye went out with a fifteen year old when he was in his thirties. Iggy pop was accused of sleeping with a thirteen year old groupie. Chuck Berry was arrested for "transporting a minor". Jerry lee Lewis at least married his child bride… :rolleyes: Lennon may have been a twat at times but at least he wasn't into shagging children.

AllGunsBlazing wrote:

To be fair there was quite a bit of revisionism applied to Lennon's legacy after his murder. His solo work was almost universally panned at the time of its release and was thought of as being a bit of a pompous dickhead by the mid 70's.

+1. He was largely a spent musical force after the first post Beatles album. Macca was streets ahead of him at that stage. It must rankle him to be constantly going along with the "Saint John" stuff. Imagine a close mate of yours being talked about like that. It would be well weird.

Shocking Footage Of John Lennon Mocking The Disabled

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