Singer JAMES TAYLOR has released a new memoir where he claims he was "a bad influence" on the Beatles by giving the group's founder, John Lennon, Opiates. (That's Taylor and Lennon above, when they both lived in The Dakota apartment building in New York, in the '70s.)
Read this link...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/james-taylor-beatles-john-lennon-drugs-opiates-022015931.html
For 50 years now, MOST people have been blaming John's wife Yoko Ono SOLELY for the Beatles' demise. She and Lennon became an item in 1968, but that's when Taylor now said HE was hanging around Beatles' recording sessions (for "The White Album"), ALSO. The link goes on to affirm that Lennon had a "Heroin addiction" around that time, and claims it led to a rift in the band that couldn't be healed. TAYLOR had a Heroin addiction, AS WELL but all the media could do was blame John's "addiction" to YOKO for the Beatles' split-up, in 1970.
And, for fifty years I've been hearing things like "Yoko made John CRAZY" (and there's no doubt that she is "out there" and DID influence him), but never let us forget that JAMES is the one who actually went into a mental hospital shortly after when, he now admits, he gave John drugs that he wasn't sure John had ever used before.
This all leads me now to three questions.
1.) Is James saying all this in a memoir NOW because he's in his 70s and wants to clear his conscience of something, "set the record straight" while he can? (If so, "better late than never.")
2.) Is this new confession of his ONLY intended to help "Sweet Baby James" sell his new memoir AND his new album that's coming out soon? (I hope it's NOT for this reason....only JAMES knows.)
But most of all, Question # 3.) Has there been BIAS AGAINST YOKO ONO, unfairly blaming HER ONLY for the Beatles' breakup and hiding TAYLOR'S possible role in it??
"Loco" Yoko: Talentless Japanese WOMAN who screeches and thinks it's "singing."
James: Gifted Caucasian MALE with a smooth, silky voice that has led to a very successful, 50 year career.
BOTH of them got their "start" as "stars" via John Lennon / The Beatles. And, I now think that BOTH of them share equal blame for The Beatles's DEMISE....though only YOKO has been blamed for an entire half-century.
Perhaps James Taylor should apologize to Yoko for not telling his story SOONER. I am SICK of women getting all of the blame for things while MEN HIDE!!
I reworked this blog, shortened it and sent it in to the major New York papers. they didn't print it, but here's what I sent...
ReplyDelete"Editor,
"After 50 years, James Taylor, in his new memoir, confessed to being a "bad influence" on the Beatles. He now admits to giving John Lennon opiates while visiting the Beatles recording sessions in 1968, and both he and Lennon had a Heroin addiction at the time. Lennon's struggles, according to many, brought a rift to the group, which disbanded in 1970. Taylor then wound up in Rehab, spending time in a psychiatric hospital where he wrote his first hit album "Sweet Baby James."
"But for this past 50 years, it seems like "all" of the blame for the Beatles' split was put on John's wife, Yoko Ono. Supposedly, her presence in the 1968 recording sessions upset the other Beatles (but the media never mentioned that James was hanging around in the studio, also.) Supposedly, Yoko made John "lose his mind" (no mention of James's role which he now finally brought out, only recently.) And, the press made it out that Yoko was like a drug that John was addicted to, (never mentioning the actual, literal drugs James passed on to Lennon, the group's leader and founder, admittedly not knowing if John had ever used those particular ones before.)
"Since 1970, Yoko Ono has been singled out as if she's the only culprit in the group's demise, and one wonders if it's because it was easier for the media to blame a Japanese woman who screeches and calls it "singing" that it is to "out" a Caucasian male that has a silky smooth voice. Whatever the reasons, I'm glad James, in his latter years, has finally stepped forward, and I hope he apologizes to Yoko for letting her take all of the blame these past 50 years. "Sweet Baby James," time to man up to Yoko personally!
"Chet Jelinski"