COLD TURKEY john lennon

I like nothing better than left-over turkey for a post-thanksgiving jolt of big bird coma, then John Lennon says it best in COLD TURKEY

IMAGINE for # 1 2016

Times are tough for Zeppelin.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN used to be # 1 for years.

1057 the hawk FM complied this 1-15 list of best rock songs of all time.

i.e. since the debut of rock and roll in 1955.

15 LED ZEPPELIN Stairway To Heaven 14 ZZ TOP Sharp Dressed Man 13 BLUE OYSTER CULT Don’t Fear The Reaper 12 STEVE MILLER The Joker 11 EAGLES Hotel California 10 AEROSMITH Dream On 9 JOURNEY Don’t Stop Believin’ 8 QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody 7 PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall 6 AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long 5 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Sweet Home Alabama 4 LED ZEPPELIN Black Dog 3 KANSAS Carry On Wayward Son 2 BOSTON More Than A Feeling 1 AEROSMITH Sweet Emotion

http://1057thehawk.com/the-memorial-day-500-playlist-songs-100-1-2/

I would not have picked one of these MOR hits.

My # 1 is John Lennon - Imagine

To view this song, please go to this URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs

WE ARE US 2023

No silent night
No peace on Earth
Like Lennon said
Imagine Imagine Imagine
Imagine no more them
Imagine no more us
Imagine only we are the world
We are us. We are us.
From the mountains
And the valleys
To the Oceans
All around the world.
No more prayers
No more thoughts
Only the silence of guns
And Peace on Earth
From the Jordan River
To the Ukraine
An End To the wars
Everywhere
Nothing but peace
For the children of now
For the children of the future
For we who were once children

Peace around the world.
Imagine
It's easy if you try
Lennon sang that then
Let's sing it together now.
All together now
All tomorrows
All together now
We areus
All of us
Like it or not.

Bad Week In Bad America

America was shocked by the brutal double-killing of Alton Sterling by a Baton Rouge police officer. 911 had received a gun call from someone at the convenience store where Sterling sold CDs. the illegal gun in Sterling's possession had been purchased for protection. The two police rolled into the parking lot and attempted an arrest, knocking Sterling to the sidewalk.

One shouted out, "He has a gun."

It was not in his hands.

The incident was recorded by cellphone.

It might not be judge and jury, but the video clearly shows the police officer shooting Sterling point-blank in the chest.

The father of two died on the scene.

Another black man, Philando Castile, was murdered by a Minneapolis cop after he declared he was legally carrying a weapon on him. His girlfriend recorded the killing on her phone. The police took her and her daughter into custody.

This was murder in the second degree.

No accident.

People were outraged.

The Bahamanian government issued a travel warning to its citizens.

Protests called for justice.

In Dallas at a Black Lives Matter march a single gunman, Micah Johnson, attacked white police officer with an automatic weapon. The ex-soldier killed 5 and wounded 7. The police stopped his revenge rampage with a drone robot bomb.

It was obvious that America had reached a tipping point with the police killers on one side and blacks on another.

The protests continued with a large march in Baton Rouge.

The police riot squads responded with excessive force.

Typically in military gear and ready to revenge the fallen officers.

This photo shows the difference between the people and the police.

Same as Tank Man in Beijing 1989

Or the peacenik protesting against the Viet-Nam War at the Pentagon in 1967.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

ps a gunman got John Lennon too.

It was a bad week in America, but it's always darkest before the storm.

JOHNNY B GOODE / Chuck Berry and John Lennon

Back in 1972 ohn Lennon, Chuck Berry, Yoko Ono and other musician played JOHNNY B GOODE on the Mike Douglas Show, Yoko sang back-up until a tech thankfully pulled Yoko's mike lead out of the amp.

To watch JOHNNY B GOODE please go to this URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTqzcc-WNk

IMAGINE by John Lennon

I deem IMAGINE by John Lennon to be the greatest song of my lifetime. THe words never lose their power. I f only people could imagine.

To hear IMAGINE please go to this URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8

GET TOGETHER by the Youngbloods

In a time of unending war there is only one path to freedom.

Get Together.

To hear this song by the Youngbloods, please go to the following URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbrn9eXEKWk

And while we're at it

PEACE TRAIN by Cat Stevens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_X9eqYa6CQ

And not to mention IMAGINE by John Lennon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8

Page 45

A friend of mine wrote that if you pick up the book closest to you and open to page 45, then the first line will describe your life.

The Taschen John Lennon book was at hand and I opened the paperback to page 45.

"Foreign-made pornographic material." summed up my life in a nutshell, but then I am an open book and so was John Lennon.

WORKING CLASS HERO / John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

I can't stand the Beatles after BEATLES FOR SALE. Most of the McCarthy songs beyond that LP are minorpieces of mediocre insipiditude.

REVOLUTION is a total cop-out.

Post-Beatles John Lennon was another story and few song beat the power of WORKING CLASS HERO to inspire the struggle.

The revolution was over only for those who have surrendered to the falsehood of wealth.

Free your mind of consumerism and you will free your soul.

Imagine John

Almost 32 years ago Mark Chapman bought CATCHER IN THE RYE at a NY book store. He wrote 'this is my statement' and 'Holden Caufield'. Around 5pm John Lennon exited from the building with his wife Yoko Ono. Chapman introduced himself and held out a Lennon LP. Later that evening John returned to the Dakota and Chapman shot him five times in anger over the ex-Beatle's statement that he was more famous than Jesus Lennon was pronounced dead at 11:07 pm at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He did not rise on the third day. None of the Beatles were God. Since conviction for murder Chapman was been imprisoned in Attica and most recently transferred to Wende Correctional Facility, another maximum security facility. He had been denied parole on six occasions and this week he goes before the board a seventh time. Yoko Ono in fear for her sons is firmly against his release as are many Beatles and Lennon fans. The only forgiveness comes from members of his evangelical church. They are Christians and Chapman has stated if paroled, "I would immediately try to find a job, and I really want to go from place to place, at least in the state, church to church, and tell people what happened to me and point them the way to Christ." I called up all my friends who answered their phone and they said, "No parole." One went as far as saying, "Hang him in the square." I have to admit it sounds like a good idea. Imagine.

The Olympics Truce