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Originally Posted by chumsicles
Give Peace A Chance was never a very good song :/
Personally I don't think Yoko deserves any respect. She played into John's insecurities and manipulated him, got him into heroin, and was a nuisance to the other band members, constantly distracting them and John when they were recording. She's a loathsome woman and deserves every bit of scrutiny she got
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It's really unfair to blame her for all that. I really don't think she played into his insecurities, she was just the first person he ever felt comfortable being vulnerable around. That's not manipulation, that's love. And they got into heroin together, John would have likely tried it sooner or later bcause he was that kind of guy, he had a lot of pain he wanted to ignore if he could find the means, and liked experiencing life and the world in as many different ways as possible. I'm not condoning drug addiction, I'm just saying it takes a very specific kind of person to try heroin, and John was that kind of person with or without Yoko.
From what I gathered while watching the unedited bootleg version of the Anthology documentary (with the stuff Yoko asked to be taken out), it wasn't so much that Yoko was infringing on Paul, George, or Ringo in any way, just that she and John were inseperable and didn't really communicate with anybody but each other, and they felt sort of alienated by their friend. John basically saw himself and Yoko as one person, so he didn't see the issue with her sitting in or sharing ideas, but the rest of the band, understandably, didn't see things that way. There was nothing intentionally malicious or spiteful about Yoko's relationship with the other Beatles, she just put her relationship with John before John's relationship with them, and he did the same for her.
I would do a little more research on Yoko before you go condemning her like that. She was a brilliant performance and conceptual artist before she met John, has actually recorded some pretty awesome songs over the years, and is a big, big, big humanitarian. There's a dark underbelly of chauvinism to her always getting blamed for the breakup, just like any number of outspoken artistic women who get written off as "crazy b****es". General resentment of Beatle wives (Linda McCartney had a lot of haters too) has as much as anything to do with all the scorn she gets too. Sure, she's made some questionable business decisions (suing some random rocker chick whose last name was lennon comes to mind), but let's be honest, Paul's made at least as many of those as she has, and a lot of her perceived "greed" just seems like her aggresively preserving the legacy of the love of her life, who she had to watch get shot to death by a random stranger. So cut her some slack. I respect her a lot for always being somebody who has expressed herself the way she wants to, even if it's not necessarily the rest of the world's preferance, and I think even though he might have been a little more straight laced without her, she really did bring out the best in John, artistically and otherwise. I'd trade a "Gimme Some Truth" or a "Mother" for a "Hard Day's Night" any day, because the sentiment just seems a lot more emotionally pure and honest, but that's just me.
Also, I have to salute you for your Residents avatar, although I would think if you like the Residents you would be less averse to Yoko's avant garde sensibility, but hey. Sorry for the ridiculously long post.
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