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!!
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!!
Very interesting and I was captivated. I agree about Yoko Ono and I had no idea about James Taylor. Your assertion about “loco” ono screaming when she sang and Taylor , a privileged white man getting all the accolades is so spot on . It’s sad it’s still seen this way with woman today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for an enjoyable read and a learning one , too!