Karen, absolutely. Just saying, from my experience, sometimes happiness is what happens to you while your ego is busy making other plans. He was planning a tour. I blame Yoko for polishing up and blanketing the world for the last 35 years, with her accomplices in the media for the mythical Saint John Lennon Christ, Murdered Martyr Crusader for Peace, Love & Understanding, with Yoko starring as his Chosen Wife, Self Sacrificing, For The Greater Good Of Humanity & Keeper Of The Flame so there is so much coming for this fic. It was quite a moment for Yoko Ono, who became “very emotional” after German officials flew to New York City to show the widow of John Lennon the items they’d recovered belonging to the late singer, which included three diaries, his signature metal-rimmed eyeglasses, handwritten sheet music, and cigarette cases with cigarettes still in them. Could be, Nancy and Karen. Why is it that John Lennon always seemed to talk about several things at once? So much of John’s behavior — the gap between the image he and Yoko were projecting and reality they were living — strikes me as profoundly adolescent. There’s an argument to be made that even if we take the worst of the reports of this time, it still represents a relative uplift in John’s psychological wellbeing. Just a funny little bit. i’ve been very busy rewriting it and am halfway to where i had been before i lost everything. Another point to be made is, even if John was glad to be out from under the pressure of being in the game, even if he found some joy and contentment with being with his baby son, always lurking underneath the surface of it all, was the guilt he felt, tried to ignore, but couldn’t escape, of his other son, who he hadn’t connected with, who he wasn’t there for, who still needed him, who’s biological connection couldn’t ever be severed, and who Yoko had showed, she really didn’t want to be bothered with. . Well, of course the bagpipes got me right back to Edinburgh, which is one of my favorite dreams. I was often stressed, anxious, annoyed and cranky – even hopeless sometimes. John Lennon's Stolen Personal Items Recovered by German Police we’ll be together all alone again…like we use to in the early days (Alone together in Paris 1961, before fame) “Insisting that everything released by those he feels competitive with is “shit” and taking pleasure in what he perceives as their downfall is just sad, and he seems to know it (“the ultimate dissociation would be not even to know they had an album out!”).”. Ahh, thanks. we have groan! John’s humiliation must have felt indescribable, so he lashed out at Paul. Watch Queue Queue. Wasn’t this also the time he asked Paul to ” Think of me now and again old friend.”? and we will remove it immediately. 8 years, 6 months ago Read More. I wanted to add to my last comment about how I believe John constantly thought of Paul, missed him terribly, and wanted to get word to him via song that he wanted to reunite, get back together and of course he used code, like Paul, to get the message across. John Lennon Diaries Chapter 7/? Just put it off. The thing I wanted to add about McCartney, Dylan, and Jagger, et. After his arrest, Seaman insisted that Lennon had specifically instructed him to give the diaries – handwritten and assumed to be intensely private – to his eldest son Julian in the event of his death. Rating: R. Strong Language. [i] In November 1968 John Lennon created a ‘diary for the future’ for Aspen, the self-styled ‘multimedia magazine in a box’. All you need is love, love, love! . […] Aunt Ann, who’s still living in Rockferry, Cheshire. There are other little gems to mine in this transcript but in the interest of keeping this post short(er) I’ll leave it here. I recall that as well, Rose, thanks for the quote. I don’t know about the Westermarck effect with John, but it’s strange to me that Paul’s confession to Barry Miles in Many Years from Now of having vaguely sexual feelings towards his mother never got traction: “At night there was one moment when she would pass our bedroom door in underwear, which was the only time I would ever see that, and I used to get sexually aroused. “The ballad of John and Yoko persists because it turns John’s life into a success, and we fans want that. Blue dots and red dots skating away in the park. “I wonder if I am naive because I believe the 1980s would have been a time for John to heal the damage he’d done with his older son, his first wife, his family in Liverpool and his writing partner. If it’s your mom, it’s a lot; if it’s someone more distant, or someone you don’t know well, it’s less. I don’t believe for a second he didn’t feel competitive about them though, and I think he was, deep down, equally disappointed in his own 70 output – again, with justification. As for John’s diaries, I wonder if Seaman ever thought, “I should have just given the damn journals to Julian, like John asked.” It appears that Yoko wasn’t even aware of their existance and probably would have had a harder time proving that John didn’t just give them to Julian himself. But I always think whether I should have done it, presuming she would have allowed it. That’s a pretty convincing quote. This makes the life change qualitatively different for John, IMO. I don’t exactly blame my school for not blogging! although our love…is still special…let’s take a chance and fly away (as Beatles they did a lot of flying, even had a song called “Flying” on MMT album) somewhere (Here, There, & Everywhere) alone John Lennon wrote letters and postcards all of his life, and now a selection of these letters is being published for the first time. Aged thirty-nine, looking out of my hotel window, wondering whether to jump out or get back in bed. Sounds like a bit of an idiot in these. Diaries of John Lennon from the years 1975, 1979 and 1980 displayed at the police headquarters in Berlin, Tuesday. 23 Nov “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. He knows it intellectually, but his emotions are still pulling him in.” Every…”You’ve Got to Serve Someone”…”You’ve Got to Serve Somebody.” So, he wants to be a waiter now. I took the day off school, I was always doing that and hanging out in her house. Your last line made me chuckle–John was so unpredictable. Hopefully, it won't take another ten years for the items to make it back into Ono's hands. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison andContinue Reading Everything in their brain is all higgledy-piggledy and its all related. The suspect, identified by the Berlin prosecutors' office only as Erhan G., in 2014 commissioned an auction house in Berlin to sell the items, receiving an upfront payment of 785,000 euros ($884,000), the office said in a statement. John Lennon was quite a man. And I can’t remember exactly what I felt…shock, I know that. About 100 stolen John Lennon items recovered. John Lennon’s stolen diaries found in Berlin – Man Arrested 0. Whatever the commercial success – or even critical acclaim – that followed, you can’t say the same of the ex-Beatles, Dylan or the Stones in the 1970s. Another difference is that the change did wonders for my creativity. Haha. and were sent to a voice analysis expert by News of the World for authentication. 7 - The British Issue - of Aspen. Huffing over a mug hot chocolate drink. How do we break? But then again, when my heart told me my work never really mattered in the first place, my head knew it to be true. A 59-year-old man was charged in Germany on Monday on suspicion of trying to sell stolen diaries and other items that had belonged to the late Beatle John Lennon. (Like Elvis’s Don’t Be Cruel, Umm) If it’s a female cousin your own age who you haven’t seen since you were both babies and who doesn’t look like your family, it’s very light. I think one of the reasons he snapped on Paul that day Paul showed up unannounced, with a guitar slung across his back was, John was embarrassed that Paul could see him, his boyhood hero, minus his fig leaf, unproductive, the once great John Lennon, who could do whatever the f**k he wanted, reduced to asking “Mother may I?” from Yoko to do anything. Because our feeling towards the Fabs is warmth and gratitude. It’s frustrating.” I think that is why John always had Paul in the back of his mind, close to the surface but had to mute himself so as to not upset Yoko. Thanks Dan. Exactly–he won’t listen to what his head is telling him. Although at the time I thought I had originated it…but somebody told me Bernard Shaw had done it. One or two were by you, a few by me, and a couple from Linda maybe? No-one really bought it or took it seriously before 1980. She was under the bed sheets and I wondered into the room, `cause I was staying there, same period, 14 on, 13 on, whatever. I don’t like the cold! Tag Archives: John Lennon. [source: Wikipedia]. I wonder, though, how it was that the adolescent John was even in bed with Julia in the first place, with his hand on her breast. . . JOHN LENNON was the first name on the LIST! And it was a strange moment, because I actually had the hots, as they say, for some rather lower-class female that lived on the opposite side of the road. I happen to agree with you, @Sam, but the wild-card here is John’s own neurology. That tired narrative of John becoming a ‘feminist’ new man…and SHE credited as the ‘wise’ woman who opened him up, patiently guided and showed him the way to view women with appreciation and respect…while conveniently ignoring the ongoing mistreatment and disrespect of Cynthia and Julian. , “My favorite part of that quote is how Paul was “proud” of his mom for being sexy!”, [Just yelled over to my wife, “Would you say my mom’s hot?” Stolen John Lennon Diaries, Glasses Found in Berlin Well now I’ve given up Scotland and the ocean and I’m settling for some grass and a tree. Elizabeth City business owners, feeling impact of peaceful protests, want justice for Andrew Brown, Jr. Robert Rosen did transcribe 5 volumes of John Lennon Diaries in 1981 and is the author of the book Nowhere Man, recently reviewed. Fifth of September 1979. background singers: Oohs and Ahhs…(my McLennon mind shipping & slashing in overdrive) I also tell them that the REAL John Lennon would hate Lennonmania. “If we had simply called the police, the diaries would undoubtedly have been destroyed.” And so, for “expenses” of $60,000,” Schonfeld agrees to procure the safe return of all of John Lennon’s original diaries. Along with about 100 other pieces of Lennon memorabilia, including a few pairs of his iconic glasses. . I think that’s where we disagree, Peter. I don’t give a shit what Wings is doing” — even though we loads of evidence proving otherwise. J knew P would “get it”) And Edinburgh Festival and the Tattoo in the Castle and all these bands of the world and armies would come and march and play. we have grown (from boys to men together)… The main pleasure being of course that it’s all a load of shit. everyday (Every Night Paul’s song) we use to make it love, why can’t we be making love nice and easy Thank you. Hey! Sometimes I get bashed, cursed out, because people don’t want their hero’s or “gods” humanized. A man was arrested in Berlin in connection with stolen diaries, glasses and personal belonging of the Beatles John Lennon. I’m no authority on teenage male sexuality, but I wonder: Was John’s sexualized orientation toward Julia the conflation of a young boy’s burgeoning sexuality with a son’s longing for maternal love? . Having never been a teenage boy, I have no idea if that’s normal. Sounds like I’m going to be put to work shortly! He spoke in circles…” I know J&P still talked on the phone from time to time, you’d think John would’ve just told him, “Hey Paul, want to work on something together again?” Or had his personal assistant call him or send him a letter John wrote to him…hell IDK. Imagine. It’s that Cult of Personality thing. 1) you are quite, ahem, sensitized to any manifestation of the female form (if that’s what you’re into). Home » Entertainment » Man who tried to sell stolen John Lennon diaries charged in Germany. About 100 stolen John Lennon items recovered. If John says he’s hsppy with Yoko, even if he sure looks and sounds like a junkie, then we guess he’s happy. I’m almost certain these were the tamest (and lamest) of them all. AN2: this is a really long fic. i had a problem with my computer and i lost all of my documents and i only had some of this fic recovered. Quite literally, anything that deviates from normal reality. Haha. These must’ve been private, because… WTF is he babbling about? I think the question of the Beatles’ breakup was very complicated for John (for them all, but I’d say especially for John). I bet it was more gray than black or white. Let’s take a break. There’s a lot of stops and starts, which would account for the seeming flights of fancy. It’s true life, not a film or story with a director or author making the ultimate judgment. All images (c) their respective creators; any creator who wishes for material to be taken down, please contact us via "Who Am We?" ” [Speaking with a Scottish accent] ‘Lit by a lone spotlight. Still, even now, talking about them or thinking about them is still really being involved in it, because the ultimate dissociation would be not even to know they had an album out! But considering the information we have, Paul’s adult sexuality seems normal, so I would put down both his experience (and John’s) perhaps a side effect of being an adolescent boy in the pre-Information Age. Police arrested a man in Berlin on Monday suspected of receiving the 86 stolen items, which include Lennon's last diary that ended on the day he was shot and killed in New York on Dec. 8, 1980. He was planning a tour. . ANNOYING. And also: by putting forth the story of raising a child, Lennon was tapping into a larger generational trend–the Boomers who were 14 in 1964 were 30 in 1980, and their minds were naturally turning towards the pursuits of adulthood–balancing work and family. [wistful] And I believe Mother got the blame. . Och aye.’ Well, in 1981 I’ll take Sean there, because that’s a good year to go. Found in Berlin: Stolen Diaries John Lennons offered - Charge against 59-year-olds . it was late ’65, and Paul called me in the middle afternoon sounding panicked. Sometimes, I easily forget to blog. The items were stolen from Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono in New York in 2006 and have been seized as evidence, Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor’s office, said. 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