"Once Again: Yoko Off The Hook For The Beatles' Breakup"

                            

THIS BLOG WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN FEB. 2020 AND THEN REPRINTED HERE IN AUGUST OF THIS YEAR. THE RECENT, NEW BEATLES' DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMS AGAIN THAT OTHERS, NOT YOKO ONO, WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE BEATLES' BREAKUP BUT JAMES TAYLOR'S ROLE WAS NOT ADDRESSED THERE. ................THAT'S WHY I'M REPRINTING THIS AGAIN!!

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!! 

"Sunday: Spiritually Spaced Out"

 I WROTE THIS ON FACEBOOK BEFORE GOING TO CHURCH YESTERDAY. Thankfully, AFTER church, I felt "re-tuned" thanks to the teaching, preaching, fellowship, singing and prayer!!

I’m going to be very honest here, as always. I did not overindulge with FOOD this Thanksgiving, but I watched too much of The Beatles all at once!! All 3 parts, over 7 hours, on three consecutive days. Mistake. Now, it’s not my BODY that feels sluggish…it’s my SOUL, as I get ready to go worship the LORD this morning.

I feel spiritually LAZY this morning.

It’s not that there was anything that BAD in the “Get Back” documentary, mind you. I even wrote favorable things about it the other day (see previous blog)!! It’s just that I spent all of that time “hanging out” with 4 very gifted guys who NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THE TRUE GOD ONE SINGLE TIME. And I didn’t know how it would affect me until TODAY.

But I’m going to church with a prayer to be forgiven for my overindulgence and that the Lord, Himself would quicken me to be as excited as I usually am, to enter His Gates!! I should have used wisdom and SPACED OUT my consumption of the documentary. I didn’t, and that’s why I feel spiritually SPACED OUT. Amen!!

"The Beatles' 'GET BACK' Documentary"

 The 3 part documentary "GET BACK," about events leading up to and culminating in The Beatles' last live concert (1969), debuted on Disney-Plus this week. I wrote these notes after watching Parts 1 and 2 (Thursday-Friday) and BEFORE Part 3 streamed, just today...

"Tracts!"

 

My newest tract has been published this week, and it's been modified a bit from what I previewed here on 9/29. For starters, the COVER (above) has been changed!! There were also conceptual changes I made after seeking input from several, and it was professionally edited for spelling, grammar and punctuation as well.

....And the Tract BEFORE that, which used Shohei Ohtani as a springboard to mention the Gospel, got a BIG boost this past week!! You see, Shohei was named the American League's Most Valuable Player!!

To read (or purchase) these or my other tracts, go to the following page.....www.mwtb.org and search my name, chet jelinski.

As tomorrow is the anniversary of JFK's assassination there's a tract springing off of THAT, but the John Lennon tract, in English AND Spanish versions, has been deemed "controversial by Moments With The Book and they've hid it on ANOTHER page....

"Injustices: ---1.) Done TO Muslims and ---2.) Done BY a Muslim"

1.) Injustice done TO Muslims....

I am in total agreement with the full exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday!! Based on the evidence, Justice WAS done!! But just two days ago, ANOTHER legal case, which happened 56 years ago, was officially found to be NOT fair and two innocent men were falsely convicted of murdering Malcom X (in center of the photo). Their names are Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam and they were exonerated the day before KYLE was....without the same media attention he received, I might add.

One of these falsely accused men died since the erroneous conviction and one is now 83, his life was ruined. I hope the fact that these guys were Muslims doesn’t prejudice anyone from admitting THEY WERE WRONGLY CONVICTED, and that that’s terrible and unacceptable.

2.) Injustice done BY a Muslim...

Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) is AT IT AGAIN!! For the past few years he's been re-recording and reissuing his albums from 50 years ago, BEFORE he became a Muslim. His new lyric video for his most commercially popular song ever changes the wording of this 1971 hit from "springing fresh from The Word" (meaning the Lord Jesus Christ) to "springing fresh from THE WORLD." And yes, Cat DOES understand that "The Word" refers to Jesus Christ, in the Bible!! Because on ANOTHER song from that same album, "Changes IV," he mentioned "The Word" as being "Him" (Jesus). That song also referenced a PREACHER preaching to him, by the way.

As I mentioned yesterday to Yusuf in a comment that will probably be deleted, I can understand that he, as a Muslim now, does not want to acknowledge JESUS as he did 50 years ago. But he has no right to alter those lyrics, he did NOT write THEM!! He should have avoided doing a LYRIC video for this song.

"Morning Has Broken" was taken from his 1971 album "Teaser and the Firecat." In the album BEFORE that, "Tea for the Tillerman" (1970), his song "On The Road To Find Out" originally said we should "pick up the Good Book now" (meaning the Bible). When he re-recorded that album last year, he altered it to "pick up ***A*** good book now." In that case, he has the right to alter his own lyrics but he has NO right to alter the lyrics of the late Eleanor Farjeon!!

BELOW: THE ORIGINAL 1971 "TEASER" ALBUM QUOTED FARGEON ACCURATELY, USING LANGUAGE THAT'S FOUND IN MILLIONS OF HYMNALS AROUND THE WORLD....

AND AGAIN, ANY CHRISTIAN HYMNAL WITH "MORNING HAS BROKEN" IN IT HAS "THE WORD" IN THE LYRICS. IT'S CENTRAL TO THE POINT OF THE HYMN!!

It's a very well-done video except for that INJUSTICE to the one who wrote the lyrics....

YOUTUBE.COM

Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken (Official Lyric Video)

"Roger Tory Peterson"

 ROGER TORY PETERSON was the world’s foremost birder, I just finished the book about him!! GOD USED HIM to call attention to the amazing birds He created!! He certainly inspired ME, as a kid!!

Before Peterson, Scientists SHOT birds to study them and books describing them were overly technical and bulky. Peterson FILMED birds, did TERRIFIC paintings and always emphasized a FEW distinct traits of each bird. His bird books were thus smaller and easier to take out into the field, aiding in rapid identification and making birding ACCESSIBLE to common folk.

When I was a kid, you were called names if you dared to admit you liked birds. I wanted to be an Ornithologist when I grew up, but got discouraged when the grownups around me didn't know what it was. Now, last I looked the Sunday section of our state newspaper carries a weekly page about Birding, it's so popular!!

Peterson painted birds in “ordinary” poses which were much more realistic while AUDUBON (for example) did overly DRAMATIC poses, perhaps to try to instill “life” in his paintings as he worked from DEAD models. All I can say is I hope that, after so many years studying, painting, filming and writing about birds, that Mr. Peterson knew the One Who created them!! After all, Jesus taught lessons using birds as examples, I hope Peterson knew the Creator as well as the creations!!

"The Real-Life Inspiration For POPEYE, My First Hero as a Very Young Kid"

Popeye was my first hero as a very young kid and I just learned that his real-life inspiration was Polish, like me!! A good friend sent me this...

His real name was Frank "Rocky" Fiegel. He was born in 1868 in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. 

As a young man, Rocky went to sea. After a 20 year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar. Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting (and usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye"). 

He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’ 

The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea stories.’ Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honoured Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed. Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way. 

Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money; giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations. WHO didn't love the cartoons??? We watched them religiously ... so funny, so moral ... each story had a good ending ... wonder if kids these days even KNOW who Popeye is??? Who knew he was a real man?

"THE ETERNALS, Despite Their Name, Won't Last"

 

Marvel’s newest movie, “THE ETERNALS”, debuted today and is being banned all over the world because it has openly gay superheroes. I love Marvel movies, but I won’t see THIS one because of what it promotes. On the other hand, I do NOT want the U. S. to ban it!!

I believe in free speech even when it contradicts what I believe. Sadly, most Homosexuals want to ban all free speech that opposes what THEY believe....that's how insecure they are about their position. (But, I digress).

I want this movie AVAILABLE in American theaters and I want it to utterly FLOP at the box office.

BANNING it will only BACKFIRE, it will create a “well, I want to see it now” reaction. Marvel Mastermind Stan Lee died 3 years ago this month and if he were alive, I hope he’d tell the Studio that a gay superhero movie is a dumb idea, but this younger generation has to learn....you can’t force IMmorality on people just like you can’t force MORALITY.

See, Straight People are tired of looking at COMMERCIALS with 2% of the population featured as if they were 98%, and if they can't tolerate one minute COMMERCIALS, or TV SHOWS with the LGBTQ agenda being forced on them, they're NOT going to pay money to see gay MOVIES. Anyone notice that when DC's new "Gay Superman" title was announced last month, there's no follow-up regarding how well the comic is SELLING?? Marvel's "Eternals" will suffer the same fate, in my opinion. Anything less than a 60 million dollar first weekend for a Marvel movie is a flop, and any Marvel TEAM (like X-Men, The Avengers, Guardians) that doesn't produce sequels is a total failure.

I'm aware that the movie is projected to earn 75 mil as the weekend starts, but, like THIS writer, I say the numbers are inflated....

https://cosmicbook.news/eternals-box-office-estimates-sound-too-high

In my opinion, The ETERNALS, despite their name, won't last!!