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Originally Posted by zajDmB1
. . . Genius aside, John was an asshole. It's pretty much a fact. Ask any Beatles expert.
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Hmmm, maybe like . . . me? *looks at all his piles of books, DVDs, and magazines*
John was in no way perfect. He made many mistakes, but he was no asshole. He did bad things, and was subject to his temper, or when he was drunk during his "Lost Weekend" period. But the guy was human, susceptible to eveything we are to. Inside the man, was a person who wanted nothing more than to have his dream of world peace bear fruit, to love and be loved, and to have his mother back. If John was a true asshole, the conservative political cartoonist who visited John & Yoko's "Bed In" he would beat the shit out of the guy. The guy was provoking him, insulting Yoko and her daughter (right next to him) trying to get him to hit him, but John sat there and talked with him rationally. Why would Paul keep coming back to John and visiting him in the 70's if he was just an asshole? Why when George Harrison blew up at him after one of George's Dark Horse shows about not joining in the Concert For Bangladesh, he just stood there and took it.
If you say John was just an asshole, you don't know John.