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Speaker 1: John Lennon sticking up for Mick Jagger, basically defending Mick

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Speaker 1: he's still doing it. But it just it was one

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Speaker 1: of those things I saw and it just it just

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Speaker 1: reminded me of how much I love John Lennon, and

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Speaker 1: I really do, truly think that John Lennon was above

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Speaker 1: And you know, I also knew I had to come

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Speaker 1: in and record this pre for the Rewind episodes today,

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Speaker 1: and I was thinking about my thoughts about John Lennon

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Speaker 1: back when I wrote these episodes, and how if you

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Speaker 1: listen to these you might think that I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of disdain for John Lennon. I don't. I love

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Speaker 1: John Lennon, but he's a very complicated character and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of revelatory information in these episodes about how

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Speaker 1: John Lennon lived his life, about how John Lennon was hypocritical,

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Speaker 1: about how John Lennon was abusive, about how John Lennon

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Speaker 1: was a lot of things. But I also think that

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Speaker 1: at his core, John Lennon, when the final assessment, the

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Speaker 1: final ledger is laid bare, John Lennon was a good

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Speaker 1: person and he brought more good into the world than

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Speaker 1: he did bad. And you might not hear that from

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Speaker 1: these episodes, but that's just that's how I feel. These

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Speaker 1: episodes are also very weird to write. I remember writing

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Speaker 1: them and being like, what did I just do? It

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Speaker 1: was very early in Disgraceland. It was the first year

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Speaker 1: of Disgraceland. These are the first This is the first

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Speaker 1: two part episode I ever did, and I did it

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Speaker 1: without trying to do it. I just wrote the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I got to the end, I was like, wow, this

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Speaker 1: is really long, and it became a two parter. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: I hope you dig it. It's fun to go back

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Speaker 1: into the early years of Disgraceland and hear these episodes

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Speaker 1: compared to what we're doing these days. Get at Me six, one, seven, nine,

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Speaker 1: oh six six six three eight, Let me know what

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Speaker 1: you think. Here's John Lennon in Disgraceland. Disgraceland is a

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Speaker 1: production of Double Elvis. John Lennon is celebrated as a

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Speaker 1: defiant icon of the peace and Love generation, the smart beetle,

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Speaker 1: a dedicated husband, indoting father to his young son, whose

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Speaker 1: life was tragically cut short by a bullet from a

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Speaker 1: deranged fan. All of that is true, and all of

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Speaker 1: that is also untrue. John Lennon was a violent, philandering,

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Speaker 1: of his Machiavelian witch of a wife, Yoko Ono, a

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Speaker 1: Throughout his life, he'd been fiercely independent, but by the

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Speaker 1: seventies he would hardly make any move of consequence without

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Speaker 1: first having his wife consult the complicated cosmic algorithm of horoscopes, numerology,

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Speaker 1: real life oracles, and tarot cards. He was a longtime

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars shopping sprees on a whim. He

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Speaker 1: was one of the greatest musicians to ever record, yet

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Speaker 1: after the Beatles, his records were marred by creative inconsistency,

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Speaker 1: his former bandmate Paul McCartney, a thing that bothered him

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Speaker 1: hearing the cute beetle blanketing the waves with silly love songs.

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Speaker 1: He was a walking contradiction, complicated, simple, completely full of

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Speaker 1: But by nineteen eighty John Lennon was reclaiming the better

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Speaker 1: parts of himself and starting over making great music again.

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Speaker 1: That music you heard at the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: a mellotron called Tango Moving Piano MK. Two. I played

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Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the license for

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Speaker 1: Lady by Kenny Rogers. And why would I play you

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Speaker 1: in America on December eighth, nineteen eighty, and that was

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Speaker 1: ending the complex and wildly entertaining musicians life. On this episode,

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Speaker 1: MESSI men, country pols and cheese walking contradictions in a

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Speaker 1: Mister and missus Mark David Chapman, newlyweds residing on the

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Speaker 1: the menu, So Gloria Chapman concerned herself with being a

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Speaker 1: her husband's behavior. It was a small group. Two of

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Speaker 1: Gloria Chapman prayed that her husband would keep it together

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Speaker 1: and not embarrass her. It was early October nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: since the Beatles. Now listen to that, that's music. Todd

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Speaker 1: blared from Chapman's new Pioneer Excel turntable. The record player,

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Speaker 1: This was a superior record player anyway, and to Mark

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Speaker 1: David Chapman, Runggren's satirical send up of John Lennon on

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Speaker 1: to face the music was superior to anything Lenin had

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Speaker 1: released since the Beatles. Todd Rudgren was the anti Lenin.

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Speaker 1: Runggren had taken it upon himself to speak truth to

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Speaker 1: pop culture power. Todd Rudgren, the immensely talented American musician

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Speaker 1: pop stardom, and to him, John Lennon had turned out

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Speaker 1: to be a fraud, a fake, a fugaesy. In the sixties,

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Speaker 1: Lenin's songs and Devil May Care swing at pop stardom

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Speaker 1: exactly what he'd once railed against. As a young, angry

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Speaker 1: safe for a one time revolutionary and musical renegade. But hey,

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Speaker 1: of the music. The album was the latest haymaker in

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Speaker 1: a public round of spatting between Runggren and Lenin. The

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Speaker 1: a hysterical op ed entitled an Open Letter to sod

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Speaker 1: music and satire to face. The music is incredibly witty

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Speaker 1: and a pitch perfect mockery of well known Lennon McCartney

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Speaker 1: cow Beatles. It is so expertly written and produced that

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Speaker 1: it sounds like something the old John Lennon would have produced.

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Speaker 1: To take the piss out of the new John Lennon.

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Speaker 1: And because of this, it drove John Lennon mad. Here

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Speaker 1: was this little runt in upstate New York doing John

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Speaker 1: Lennon better than John Lennon, and what the fuck? It

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Speaker 1: was powerful stuff, and it fueled Mark David Chapman, who

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Speaker 1: like Rungren idolized. Chapman had been following the Lenin Rungren

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Speaker 1: than probably just as well. But Mark was visibly growing

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Speaker 1: Todd Man Todd Todd is got. The Chapman's guests were

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Speaker 1: from Decatur, Georgia. Now but Wahoo Hawaii. He then felt

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Speaker 1: John and Yoko's sex life had gone cold years ago,

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Speaker 1: was dynamite. God So John Lennon and May Pang decided

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Speaker 1: of violence. A weekend that would last approximately one year

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Speaker 1: in six months, A last weekend. Thanks for checking out

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