“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
The guy was a great musician, and he didn't deserve to go the way he did. That being said, I have little respect for the man as a person.
I have to agree with Duracell. Besides Yoko, he once wrote a song called "How Do You Sleep?", which was a direct insult to Paul McCartney.
However, I do own half of his discography, I can't help that he's so good.
I remember buying a single which had the lyric "Imagine no possessions" which contributed to Yoko being a 500ish times millionaire and if anyone tries to take it away from me I'll break their fingers ;-D
not my style of music, but his friends and family have my sympathies. Its always sad when someone dies so young, let alone someone with great talent like Lennon must have had.
So, talent makes someone more valuable? Slightly more tragic when the ten year old kid who is totally badass with a violin dies than when the ten year old who doesn't do so well in school and just want to play video-games in his free time dies?
As some one who grew up with the Beatles (I was a hip little kid in the late 60s), as well as having been a life-long fan of their solo work (there may be nothing of theirs I don't own) - I remember the day he was killed vividly. It was a surreal time, for sure.
CP3S said:
So, talent makes someone more valuable? Slightly more tragic when the ten year old kid who is totally badass with a violin dies than when the ten year old who doesn't do so well in school and just want to play video-games in his free time dies?
It does a bit doesn't it, collectively speaking?
If you know the someone personally, their talents and achievements are just window dressing but if talents are the only point of interaction you have with someone it's that you miss along with some vague perception of their personality filtered through those cultural relics.
I didn't personally know John Lennon or any of the Beatles or their families.
I know his songs and some of the music he created, I've seen his films, his drawings and read some of his poems and that conveys some of his personality.
The potential for him to create more of that is all I could miss of him because that's all life has permitted me to see of him.
There are plenty of equally complex people I also have never met who don't leave a trail of easily accessible artifacts who also die tragically young but I don't feel as connected to them so their passing feels less of a loss because I haven't invested as much in their life because our paths have not in anyway crossed.
It doesn't make them less human or their passing any less tragic on an individual level.
Mortality sucks, if I had my way it would be banned.