Roscoe?  Would you be willing to look at the lyrics to Lennon's song  "Imagine" and keep saying the words don't mean anything?

It's fine if U think the words mean something but I don't.

Roscoe, you wrote: "John is on record as saying that the lryrics to Beatles music is almost irrelevant"

The words do mean something. All words mean something.

It is only after the folk-rock phenomenon led by Dylan that the words start to mean somethimg in Beatles music. The Beatles are by this time a spent musical force: the end of 1965-- although there is a slight revival in 1968-69. The communist inspired  Imagine is a good example of words being more imp than melody, harmony and rhythm.

It should be remembered that John was most likely subjected to a lobot or 'treppaning' or some such sort of MK device sometime in 1968--9.

It is notable that the brief 1968-69 revival in Beatle music  is led by Paul and Grorge.

...And not too long after that Lennon let us know what he imagined:

When asked about the song in one of his last interviews, Lennon declared "Imagine" to be as good as anything he had written with the Beatles.

In a 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine, Lennon remarks on the message of "Imagine":

With "Imagine" we're asking, "can you imagine a world without countries or religions?" It's the same message over and over. And it's positive.
Ono indicated that the lyrical content of "Imagine" was "just what John believed — that we are all one country, one world, one people. He wanted to get that idea out."

In the book Lennon in America, by Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon commented that Imagine was an "anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic [song], but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted."

Dearest Clare,

Simply substitute 'Night on Bare Mountain' for Mussorsky's much finer

'Pictures at an Exhibition' and you will get approx. 5X the drama and thrills, all the while pondering pre-Revolutionary Russian Icons.

Hi Elizabeth. :)

To be honest, I have a CD with both of those on, and I prefer Night On Bare Mountain.  :scared2:

Thursday-- when U refer to the Laurel Canyon online blog do U mean davesweb?

Ah, yes. Dave's Web. For those interested.

The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html

Hi Elizabeth. :)

To be honest, I have a CD with both of those on, and I prefer Night On Bare Mountain.  :scared2:

:faint:

Have you tried playing it backwards?