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Quote by John Lennon

“I always read the papers, the political bits.”

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John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.”

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“The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.”

World Firsts Made Loses Made It Rays Accents Liverpool Arthur

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“After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.”

Scene Accents

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“'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.”

Said Two Song Left Revolution Versions

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“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.”

Knows Made Sound Mistake Painting Revolution Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

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“I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.”

Knows Waiting Fronts Police Green

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“I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.”

Bits Originals Revolutionary Communist Shouting

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“As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.”

Games Class China Russia Related Capitalist Working Class

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“I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.”

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“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

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