
Ep. 65: John Lenin
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
John Lennon's Woman Is the N-Word of the World
john lennon is at his most radical on two tracks that he has on this record about the struggle for irish independence. This is influenced by massacre in london berry known as sunday bloody sunday and please do not bring up the u2 song which is in my view second rate. In 1972 british paratroopers killed 14 demonstrators you know it was a terrible day i should say It's in the context of a bitter conflict which saw a wave of bombings throughout the united kingdom from the ira in the late sixties and seventies. Here is paul macartney also inspired by bloody sunday it also in 1972 and this is a paul song called give
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