Some classic rock stars got credit for things they didn’t do. John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” was inspired by a phrase he didn’t coin. Interestingly, the tune was inspired by a rabbi who was also a folk singer.
John Lennon felt he carried a torch by singing ‘Give Peace a Chance’
During a 1980 Rolling Stone interview, John discussed the slogan “Give Peace a Chance.” “We’re not the first to say ‘Imagine No Countries’ or ‘Give Peace a Chance,’ but we’re carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it hand to hand, to each other, to each country, to each generation … and that’s our job,” he opined. “Not to live according to somebody else’s idea of how we should live — rich, poor, happy, not happy, smiling, not smiling, wearing the right jeans, not wearing the right jeans.”
John seemed to distance himself from his saintly public image.
John Lennon felt he carried a torch by singing ‘Give Peace a Chance’
During a 1980 Rolling Stone interview, John discussed the slogan “Give Peace a Chance.” “We’re not the first to say ‘Imagine No Countries’ or ‘Give Peace a Chance,’ but we’re carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it hand to hand, to each other, to each country, to each generation … and that’s our job,” he opined. “Not to live according to somebody else’s idea of how we should live — rich, poor, happy, not happy, smiling, not smiling, wearing the right jeans, not wearing the right jeans.”
John seemed to distance himself from his saintly public image.
- 10/2/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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“That thing Bill whispers to Scarlett was never intended to be anything,” director Sofia Coppola on the film’s 15th anniversary. “I was going to figure out later what to say and add it in and then we never did.” But trying to understand that mysterious exchange has for too...
- 9/12/2023
- by Tom Nicholson
- Empire - Movies
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