
Ep. 65: John Lenin
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
John Lennon and the Radicals in the 1970s
By 1971 1972 john lennon is a gazillionaire and he's got a lot of money. He hooks up with jerry rueb and abby hoffman who were part of the chicago seven as they were arrested and tried for the street demonstrations in 1968 democratic convention. Yoko would throw himself entirely into that so in 1971 london threw himself into radical politics but i think he always in some ways he approached it as an artist in a sense he was a cipher, channeling what might be said is the zeitgeist of 1971 1972.
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