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Anonymous wrote:I’m a huge Beatles fan, but John was not a good guy. He was abusive to women and treated Julian like garbage.
This. He was an okay artist ( he and the Beatles are hugely overrated in my opinion). I still like some of the music, but John Lennon the man was trash a lot of what he did has been overlooked because of the time he lived, because of his tragic death, and his stans and stans of the Beatles.
He would be considered a pedophile today. A lot of rock stars slept with underage groupies, and no, that doesn't make it ok
You don't know what you're talking about. John slept around but not with underage groupies. In fact, one of his main affairs was with a woman eight years older than him, Alma Cogan. (Yoko was seven years older than him, BTW.) He had many faults, but he was no Jimmy Page.
They slept around a lot and did a lot of drugs. If you haven't heard of it, you probably haven't read the right books about the group. While some books are more reliable than others, there's enough coming from corroborated sources, and often from their own mouths, that it's accepted as established fact.
John Lennon said in a 1975 interview with Tom Snyder, and quoted in the Beatles Anthology book:
"In the very early days, when we were playing dance halls, there were a certain type you'd call groupies now, available for 'functions' at the end of the night.
Most kids would go home with their boyfriends or whatever, but there was a small group that went for any performer."
The Beatles' entourage (particularly roadies Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall) acted as interference whenever anybody tried to catch the Beatles in the act, whether that be drugs, or
underage girls, or just paparazzi trying to snap a scandalous photo.
There was only one time that any of them were actually caught in the act, and it was Paul. Paul was caught in his bedroom with a couple of underage girls on their tour stop in Minneapolis in 1965, and there's a rather infamous (in Beatles circles) surviving news report about it, where the police officer who caught Paul was interviewed. There were some news articles written about it at the time, but Paul was unmarried, and the scandal died down relatively quickly.
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