MUSICWARS Discussions - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T08:06:26Zhttps://12160.info/group/musicwars/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noEl Gato de Nortetag:12160.info,2023-11-16:2649739:Topic:22637212023-11-16T16:35:15.228ZBurbiahttps://12160.info/profile/Burbia
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</p> Phil Spector, Famed Music Producer and Murderer, Dies at 81tag:12160.info,2021-01-19:2649739:Topic:21317902021-01-19T07:27:36.636ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="entry-content"><p class="subheading">LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.</p>
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<div class="entry-content"><p class="subheading">LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.</p>
<p>California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.</p>
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<p>Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was sentenced to 19 years to life.</p>
<p>Clarkson, star of “Barbarian Queen” and other B-movies, was found shot to death in the foyer of Spector’s mansion in the hills overlooking Alhambra, a modest suburban town on the edge of Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Until the actress’ death, which Spector maintained was an “accidental suicide,” few residents even knew the mansion belonged to the reclusive producer, who spent his remaining years in a prison hospital east of Stockton.</p>
<p>Decades before, Spector had been hailed as a visionary for channeling Wagnerian ambition into the three-minute song, creating the “Wall of Sound” that merged spirited vocal harmonies with lavish orchestral arrangements to produce such pop monuments as “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Be My Baby” and “He’s a Rebel.”</p>
<p>He was the rare self-conscious artist in rock’s early years and cultivated an image of mystery and power with his dark shades and impassive expression.</p>
<p>Tom Wolfe declared him the “first tycoon of teen.” Bruce Springsteen and Brian Wilson openly replicated his grandiose recording techniques and wide-eyed romanticism, and John Lennon called him “the greatest record producer ever.”</p>
<p>The secret to his sound: an overdubbed onslaught of instruments, vocals and sound effects that changed the way pop records were recorded. He called the result, “Little symphonies for the kids.”</p>
</div> Music Legend Leslie West of Mountain Dead At 75tag:12160.info,2020-12-28:2649739:Topic:21234612020-12-28T03:44:30.460ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p>"The iconic guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and storyteller has left a legacy that to this day is celebrated by peers and fans across The World," publicist Steve Karas said in the release. "From 1964 through today, few artists have left a more significant mark on music as we know it. Guitarists across the globe together will unite in sadness as The World says goodbye to a true original."</p>
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<p>West, born Leslie Weinstein on October 22, 1945, in New York City, started his rise to fame in the mid-1960s. He was initially a founding member of the soul garage band the Vagrants, of which his brother Larry Weinstein was also a member. He debuted his first solo record in 1969 with the album "Mountain."</p>
<p>Following the album's release, West teamed up with producer and bass player Felix Pappalardi to form the band Mountain. The band was together for only a few years, but in that time managed to release six albums — the first of which contained what many call the band's most defining song, "Mississippi Queen," as well as "Theme from an Imaginary Western."</p>
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<p>West continued to perform following the band's breakup, and even dabbled in acting and radio. He appeared in the films "Family Honor" in 1973 and "The Money Pit" in 1986 and was a regular guest on the<span> </span><em>Howard Stern Show</em>.<br/><br/>In 2006, West was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. On New Year's Eve, LIMHOF plans to dedicate its Best of the Awards Galas TV special to West.<br/><br/>LIMHOF co-founder Norm Presslin said West was "a great friend." </p>
<p>"He's been a great friend to LIMHOF and participated in our May '20 TV broadcast with fellow inductees supporting the United Way of LI health care workers program," Presslin said. "He brought Long Island attitude to the world!"<br/><br/>Tributes quickly poured in for the guitarist following the announcement of his death.<br/><br/>Black Sabbath founding member Geezer Butler tweeted that West was a "lovely bloke," and that his "Mississippi Queen" riff is "one of, if not the, greatest riff of all time."</p>
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<p>Rock musician Peter Frampton tweeted that he met West when his band Humble Pie opened for Mountain. West was the first U.S. guitar player Frampton said he had ever met.<br/><br/>"Leslie's playing and sound had me glued watching everything he did. He was a sweetheart and an extremely funny man," Frampton wrote. "I love you Leslie and will miss you dear friend. RIP."</p>
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<p>Guitarist Brian Ray described West as "a giant presence onstage and off."<br/><br/>"He introduced me to the Les Paul TV model in 1970 when I saw Mountain at the Santa Monica Civic," Ray tweeted. "He was ferocious and graceful, mean and melodic all at the same time. He left a big impression on me and so many of us."</p>
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</p> Eddie Van Halen Dead at 65tag:12160.info,2020-10-07:2649739:Topic:20537592020-10-07T00:15:36.851ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Eddie Van Halen, whose razzle-dazzle guitar-playing — combining complex harmonics, innovative fingerings and ingenious devices he patented for his instrument — made him the most influential guitarist of his generation and his band, Van Halen, one of the most popular rock acts of all time, died on Tuesday. He was 65.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Mr. Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang,<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://twitter.com/WolfVanHalen/status/1313561314598350848/photo/2" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said in a statement</a><span> </span>that his father had “lost his long and arduous battle with cancer.” The statement did not say where he died.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Mr. Van Halen structured his solos the way Macy’s choreographs its Independence Day fireworks shows: shooting off rockets of sound that seemed to explode in a shower of light and color. His outpouring of riffs, runs and solos was hyperactive and athletic, joyous and wry, making deeper or darker emotions feel irrelevant.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">“Eddie put the smile back in rock guitar at a time when it was all getting a bit broody,” his fellow guitar ace Joe Satriani told Billboard magazine in 2015. “He also scared the hell out of a million guitarists because he was so damn good.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Mr. Van Halen was most widely revered by his peers for perfecting the technique of two-handed tapping on the guitar neck. That approach allowed him to add new textures, and percussive possibilities, to his instrument, while also making its six strings sound as expressive as a piano’s 88 keys or as changeable as a synthesizer. He received patents for three guitar devices he had created. In 2012, Guitar World Magazine ranked him No. 1 on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">“I’m always pushing things past where they’re supposed to be,” Mr. Van Halen told the educational website Zocalo Public Square in 2015. “When ‘Spinal Tap’ was going to 11, I was going to 15,” he said — a reference to that film’s famous joke about a guitarist who dubiously claims that his amplifier can exceed its highest decibel level.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">The zest in Mr. Van Halen’s playing paired perfectly with the hedonistic songs and persona of his hard-rocking band, Van Halen, whose original lineup featured his brother Alex on pummeling drums, Michael Anthony on thunderous bass and the singer David Lee Roth, who presented a scene-stealing mix of Lothario, peacock and clown.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Formed in 1972, Van Halen went on to sell more than 56 million albums in the United States alone. Ten of the band’s studio albums (some of which were cut with Sammy Hagar as lead singer during a long split with Mr. Roth) went multiplatinum. One sold more than six million copies (“5150” in 1986, featuring Mr. Hagar); another sold five million (“Van Halen II” in 1979); and two passed the 10 million mark to achieve “diamond” status (the band’s debut, “Van Halen,” in 1978, and “1984,” issued the year in the title).</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Eleven of the band’s studio albums reached the Top Five, and four snagged the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200. Van Halen amassed eight Billboard Top 20 singles, including its cover of Roy Orbison’s “(Oh) Pretty Woman,” which reached No. 12 in 1982, and “Jump,” which seized the No. 1 spot in 1984 and held it for five weeks. In 2007, the band — including both Mr. Roth and Mr. Hagar — was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was born on Jan. 26, 1955, in Amsterdam to Jan and Eugenia (Beers) Van Halen. His father, a struggling Dutch classical musician who played clarinet, saxophone and piano, met his Indonesian-born wife while on tour in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">In 1962, when Mr. Van Halen was 7, his family relocated to the United States, driven away by prejudice against his mother and unfavorable work opportunities in the Netherlands. They settled in Pasadena, Calif. His mother worked as a maid, his father as a janitor while seeking work as a musician.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">In a new country, with a new language to learn, the Van Halen sons, Eddie and his older brother, Alex, turned to music as their lingua franca. Eddie first studied classical piano, which he excelled at despite a serious limitation.</p>
<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">“I never learned how to read music,” he told Rolling Stone in 1995. “I fooled my teacher for six years. He never knew. I’d watch his fingers, and I’d play it.”</p>
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<p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0">The siblings formed their first band in 1964, the Broken Combs, which became the Trojan Rubber Company. In 1972 they formed a new group, calling themselves Genesis, even though there was already a British band by that name. They rented a sound system from Mr. Roth, whom they eventually hired as their singer — but only, Mr. Van Halen later said, to save the rental money. Two years later, they recruited Michael Anthony on bass and changed their name first to Mammoth and then to Van Halen.</p>
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<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Drummer Lee Kerslake, who performed with<span> </span><a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/08/03/ozzy-osbourne-gives-health-update-after-spinal-surgery/5571093002/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ozzy Osbourne</a><span> </span>and British rock band Uriah Heep, has died,<span> …</span></p>
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<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Drummer Lee Kerslake, who performed with<span> </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/08/03/ozzy-osbourne-gives-health-update-after-spinal-surgery/5571093002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Ozzy Osbourne</a><span> </span>and British rock band Uriah Heep, has died,<span> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uriahheepofficial/posts/3381044075272614" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="gnt_ar_b_a">the band confirmed</a><span> </span>Saturday. He was 73. </p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Where are the words to describe the feelings one has when you (lose) a friend, colleague, fellow band mate (for 20 some odd years!) brother in arms, let alone when it’s someone larger than life like Lee Kerslake?" a post reads on<span> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uriahheepofficial" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Uriah Heep's verified Facebook page</a>, signed by lead singer Bernie Shaw. </p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">USA TODAY has reached out to Uriah Heep's representative to ask when Kerslake died.</p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Kerslake performed with Uriah Heep for much of the 1970s before going on to play with Ozzy Osbourne. He rejoined Uriah Heep in the '80s and stayed on until 2007, contributing to 17 of the band's 25 studio albums. </p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><a href="https://twitter.com/OzzyOsbourne/status/1307379388061683712" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Osbourne mourned Kerslake</a><span> </span>in a social media post Saturday: "It’s been 39 years since I’ve seen Lee but he lives for ever on the records he played on for me, 'Blizzard of Ozz' and 'Diary of a Madman.' Lee Kerslake RIP," he wrote.</p>
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<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">On Uriah Heep's verified Twitter account, lead guitarist Mick Box called Kerslake <a href="https://twitter.com/uriah_heep?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="gnt_ar_b_a">"one of the kindest men on earth"</a><span> </span>and "an incredible drummer, singer and song writer."</p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Shaw, who has been with the band since 1986, remembered Kerslake as being "generous to a fault."</p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Always smiling and ready to entertain at the drop of a hat," he wrote. "Many a free drink was had after a show when he would get up and play with a local band at the nearest club we could find, and first up if there was someone with a fishing boat willing to take him out for the day."</p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Shaw added: "Is Heaven ready for Lee Kerslake?! Boy. There’s one hell of a party. Rock on Lee, you deserve it mate. Will miss you."</p> The Man On The Silver Mountain- Ronnie James Dio (Unofficial Documentary by Ralph Viera)tag:12160.info,2020-05-17:2649739:Topic:20216792020-05-17T02:01:33.891ZBurbiahttps://12160.info/profile/Burbia
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<p>Proud to say I smoked a joint w/ this man back when I was 17, and had no idea who he was at the time. John Prine<span>, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was 73. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, his family said.</span></p>
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<p>Proud to say I smoked a joint w/ this man back when I was 17, and had no idea who he was at the time. John Prine<span>, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was 73. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, his family said.</span></p>
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<p>El Duce. Sicky Wife Beater. Dr. Heathen Scum. The Mentors.</p>
<p>Found this relic of Heavy Music History by none other than April Jones at this website :</p>
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<p>This is her research into one of the most controversial bands of the 80's and 90's. They pushed the boundaries by today's standards would be cancelled. They were, The Mentors. Watch this…</p>
<p>El Duce. Sicky Wife Beater. Dr. Heathen Scum. The Mentors.</p>
<p>Found this relic of Heavy Music History by none other than April Jones at this website :</p>
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<p>This is her research into one of the most controversial bands of the 80's and 90's. They pushed the boundaries by today's standards would be cancelled. They were, The Mentors. Watch this spectacle before the Smithsonian Institute carts this gem off to hidden corners of forgotten history.</p> BEFORE ASSANGE, SNOWDEN, AND MANNING, THE DEEP STATE TARGETED JOHN LENNONtag:12160.info,2019-10-12:2649739:Topic:19625252019-10-12T01:07:03.723ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/john_lennon_vs._the_deep_state_one_man_against_the_monster" rel="noopener" target="_blank">JOHN WHITEHEAD VIA THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE…</a></h2>
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<div><p>John Lennon, born 79 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon.</p>
<p>He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.</p>
<p>Long before<span> </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/julian-assange-latest-extradition-hearing-belmarsh-prison-father-john-shipton-award-un-a9124586.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julian Assange</a>, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were being castigated for blowing the whistle on the<span> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/politics/chelsea-manning-new-convictions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government’s war crimes</a><span> </span>and the National Security Agency’s<span> </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/04/edward-snowden-what-would-happen-if-he-went-home-pardon-or-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abuse of its surveillance powers</a>, it was Lennon who was being singled out for daring to speak truth to power about the government’s warmongering, his phone calls monitored and data files illegally collected on his activities and associations.</p>
<p>For a while, at least, Lennon became enemy number one in the eyes of the U.S. government.</p>
<p>Years after Lennon’s<span> </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/35-years-later-john-lennon-cultural-legacy-376153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assassination</a><span> </span>it would be revealed that the FBI had collected<span> </span><a href="http://lennonfbifiles.com/fbi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">281 pages of files</a><span> </span>on him, including song lyrics. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI at the time, directed the agency to spy on the musician. There were also various written orders calling on government agents to frame Lennon for a drug bust. “The FBI’s files on Lennon … read like the<span> </span><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Art-and-politics-frightened-the-FBI-Lennon-most-2487796.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writings of a paranoid goody-two-shoes</a>,” observed reporter Jonathan Curiel.</p>
<p>As the<span> </span><em>New York Times</em><span> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>, “Critics of today’s domestic surveillance object largely on privacy grounds. They have focused far less on how easily government surveillance can become an instrument for the people in power to try to hold on to power. ‘The U.S. vs. John Lennon’ … is the story not only of one man being harassed, but of a democracy being undermined.”</p>
<p>Indeed, all of the many complaints we have about government today—surveillance, militarism, corruption, harassment, SWAT team raids, political persecution, spying, overcriminalization, etc.—were present in Lennon’s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice, peace and a populist revolution.</p>
<p>For all of these reasons, the U.S. government was obsessed with Lennon, who had learned early on that rock music could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message. More importantly, Lennon saw that his music could mobilize the public and help to bring about change. Lennon believed in the power of the people. Unfortunately, as Lennon recognized: “The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people.<span> </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj5uY-yAy4QC&dq=%22establishment,+it%E2%80%99s+just+a+name+for+evil%22+john+lennon&source=gbs_navlinks_s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It controls them</a>.”</p>
<p>However, as Martin Lewis writing for<span> </span><em>Time</em><span> </span><a href="http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,91207,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>: “John Lennon was not God. But he earned the love and admiration of his generation by creating a huge body of work that inspired and led. The appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement.”</p>
<p>For instance, in December 1971 at a concert in Ann Arbor, Mich., Lennon took to the stage and in his usual confrontational style belted out “John Sinclair,” a song he had written about a man sentenced to<span> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 years in prison for possessing two marijuana cigarettes</a>. Within days of Lennon’s call for action, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered Sinclair released.</p>
<p>What Lennon did not know at the time was that government officials had been keeping strict tabs on the ex-Beatle they referred to as “Mr. Lennon.” Incredibly, FBI agents were in the audience at the Ann Arbor concert, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking notes</a><span> </span>on everything from the attendance (15,000) to the artistic merits of his new song.”</p>
<p>The U.S. government, steeped in paranoia, was spying on Lennon.</p>
<p>By March 1971, when his “Power to the People” single was released, it was clear where Lennon stood. Having moved to New York City that same year, Lennon was ready to participate in political activism against the U. S. government, the “monster” that was financing the war in Vietnam.</p>
<p>The release of Lennon’s<span> </span><em>Sometime in New York City</em><span> </span>album, which contained a radical anti-government message in virtually every song and depicted President Richard Nixon and Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung dancing together nude on the cover, only fanned the flames of the conflict to come.</p>
<p>The official U.S. war against Lennon began in earnest in 1972 after rumors surfaced that Lennon planned to embark on a U.S. concert tour that would combine rock music with antiwar organizing and voter registration. Nixon, fearing Lennon’s influence on about 11 million new voters (1972 was the first year that 18-year-olds could vote), had the ex-Beatle served with deportation orders “in an<span> </span><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060912_john_lennon_politics_deportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">effort to silence him as a voice of the peace movement</a>.”</p>
<p>Then again, the FBI has had a long history of persecuting, prosecuting and generally harassing activists, politicians, and cultural figures. Most notably among the latter are such<span> </span><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Art-and-politics-frightened-the-FBI-Lennon-most-2487796.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated names</a><span> </span>as folk singer Pete Seeger, painter Pablo Picasso, comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, comedian Lenny Bruce and poet Allen Ginsberg.</p>
<p>Among those most closely watched by the FBI was Martin Luther King Jr., a man labeled by the FBI as “the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.” With wiretaps and electronic bugs planted in his home and office, King was kept under constant surveillance by the FBI with the aim of “neutralizing” him. He even received letters written by FBI agents suggesting that he either commit suicide or the details of his private life would be revealed to the public. The FBI kept up its pursuit of King until he was felled by a hollow-point bullet to the head in 1968.</p>
<p>While Lennon was not—as far as we know—being blackmailed into suicide, he was the subject of a four-year campaign of surveillance and harassment by the U.S. government (spearheaded by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover), an attempt by President Richard Nixon to have him “neutralized” and deported. As Adam Cohen of the<span> </span><em>New York Times</em><span> </span>points out, “The F.B.I.’s surveillance of Lennon is a reminder of how easily<span> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">domestic spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law enforcement purpose</a>. What is more surprising, and ultimately more unsettling, is the degree to which the surveillance turns out to have been intertwined with electoral politics.”</p>
<p>As Lennon’s FBI file shows, memos and reports about the FBI’s surveillance of the anti-war activist had been flying back and forth between Hoover, the Nixon White House, various senators, the FBI and the U.S. Immigration Office.</p>
<p>Nixon’s pursuit of Lennon was relentless and in large part based on the misperception that Lennon and his comrades were planning to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. The government’s paranoia, however, was misplaced.</p>
<p>Left-wing activists who were on government watch lists and who shared an interest in bringing down the Nixon Administration had been congregating at Lennon’s New York apartment. But when they revealed that they were planning to cause a riot, Lennon balked. As he recounted in a 1980 interview, “We said, We ain’t buying this. We’re not going to draw children into a situation to create violence so you can overthrow what? And replace it with what? . . . It was all based on this illusion, that you can create violence and overthrow what is, and get communism or get some right-wing lunatic or a left-wing lunatic. They’re all lunatics.”</p>
<p>Despite the fact that Lennon was not part of the “lunatic” plot, the government persisted in its efforts to have him deported. Equally determined to resist, Lennon dug in and fought back. Every time he was ordered out of the country, his lawyers delayed the process by filing an appeal. Finally, in 1976, Lennon won the battle to stay in the country when he was granted a green card. As he said afterwards, “I have a love for this country…. This is where the action is. I think we’ll just go home, open a tea bag, and look at each other.”</p>
<p>Lennon’s time of repose didn’t last long, however. By 1980, he had re-emerged with a new album and plans to become politically active again.</p>
<p>The old radical was back and ready to cause trouble. In his final interview on Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon mused, “The whole map’s changed and we’re going into an unknown future, but we’re still all here, and while there’s life there’s hope.”</p>
<p>The Deep State has a way of dealing with troublemakers, unfortunately. On Dec. 8, 1980,<span> </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/35-years-later-john-lennon-cultural-legacy-376153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark David Chapman was waiting in the shadows</a><span> </span>when Lennon returned to his New York apartment building. As Lennon stepped outside the car to greet the fans congregating outside, Chapman, in an eerie echo of the FBI’s moniker for Lennon, called out, “Mr. Lennon!”</p>
<p>Lennon turned and was met with a barrage of gunfire as Chapman—dropping into a two-handed combat stance—emptied his .38-caliber pistol and pumped four hollow-point bullets into his back and left arm. Lennon stumbled, staggered forward and, with blood pouring from his mouth and chest, collapsed to the ground.</p>
<p>John Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. He had finally been “neutralized.”</p>
<p>Yet where those who neutralized the likes of John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and others go wrong is in believing that you can murder a movement with a bullet and a madman.</p>
<p>Thankfully, Lennon’s legacy lives on in his words, his music and his efforts to speak truth to power. As Yoko Ono shared in a 2014 letter to the parole board tasked with determining whether Chapman should be released: “A man of humble origin, [John Lennon] brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. He tried to be a<span> </span><a href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-mark-david-chapman-denied-parole/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good power for the world</a>, and he was. He gave encouragement, inspiration and dreams to people regardless of their race, creed and gender.”</p>
<p>Sadly, not much has changed for the better in the world since Lennon walked among us.</p>
<p>Peace remains out of reach. Activism and whistleblowers continue to be prosecuted for challenging the government’s authority. Militarism is on the rise, with local police dressed like the military, all the while the governmental war machine continues to wreak havoc on innocent lives across the globe. Just recently, for example, U.S. military forces carried out<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones/u-s-drone-strike-kills-30-pine-nut-farm-workers-in-afghanistan-idUSKBN1W40NW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drone strikes in Afghanistan that killed 30 pine nut farmers</a>.</p>
<p>For those of us who joined with John Lennon to imagine a world of peace, it’s getting harder to reconcile that dream with the reality of the American police state.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, as I point out in my book<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Battlefield America: The War on the American People</a>, those who dare to speak up are labeled dissidents, troublemakers, terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and tagged for surveillance, censorship, involuntary detention or, worse, even<span> </span><a href="https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/bodycam-footage-of-fatal-shooting-shows-both-henrico-officers-fired/article_9aa05c77-822e-5698-955a-b56a82121ded.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot and killed in their own homes</a><span> </span>by militarized police.</p>
<p>As Lennon shared in a 1968 interview:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives… I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means. If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government and the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane. But<span> </span><a href="http://mic.com/articles/52545/this-john-lennon-quote-explains-politics-better-than-anything-ever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that</a>. That’s what’s insane about it.”</p>
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<p>So what’s the answer?</p>
<p>Lennon had a multitude of suggestions.</p>
<p>“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”</p>
<p>“War is over if you want it.”</p>
<p>“Produce your own dream…. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders…. You have to do it yourself. That’s what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There’s nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.”</p>
<p>“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”</p>
<p>“If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”</p>
<p>And my favorite advice of all: “Say you want a revolution / We better get on right away / Well you get on your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people.”</p>
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<div id="RelatedInfoBox"><h5>ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD</h5>
<p>Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of<span> </span><a href="https://www.rutherford.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rutherford Institute</a>. His new book<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Battlefield America: The War on the American People</a><span> </span>is available at<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/"><u>www.amazon.com</u></a>. Whitehead can be contacted at<span> </span><a href="https://www.blacklistednews.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bdd7d2d5d3cafdcfc8c9d5d8cfdbd2cfd993d2cfda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[email protected]</a>.</p>
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