John Lennon - Man of the Decade (December 1969)

"The bully-- that's the establishment-- they know how to beat people up. They know how to gas them, and they have the arms and the equipment. And the mistake was made that, the kids ended up playing their game of violence. And they know how to be violent. They've been running it on violence for the last two-thousand years, or a million or whatever it is. And nobody can tell me that violence is the way after all that time, you know. There must be another way, but alot of people fell for it. And it's understandable in a way, 'cuz when the bully is actually RIGHT THERE it's pretty hard to say 'Turn the other cheek, baby.'
"There's no cause worth losing your life for, there isn't any park worth getting shot for and you can do better by moving on to another city .... Don't move about if it aggravates the pigs, and don't get hassled by the cops, and don't play their games. I know it's hard, Christ you know it ain't easy, you know how hard it can be man, so what?-Everything's hard-it's better to have it hard than to not have it at all" John worked himself up into a fury: "Entice them, entice them! Con them-you've got the brains, you can do it. You can make it, man! We can make it-together. We can get it-together!"


December 2, 1969

John Lennon was selected as one of only three people to be featured and interviewed as Man Of The Decade. The interview was filmed by ATV on December 2nd as John and Yoko walked the grounds of their Tittenhurst estate in Ascot, Berkshire. The footage was broadcast in Britain on December 30th 1969.

The interview begins with John drawing an analogy between the effects of LSD and the events of the sixties.

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[FansFiltration]

The glasses Lennon and Ghandi used are typical British National Health issue of the 1930's and 40's. They are exactly the same type given "free" to subjects of the British empire by the government's social health program. John first got his famous "Granny Glasses" as a prop for his small role in the Richard Lester film "How I Won the War" in 1966. Ghandi most likely got his due to the fact that India was a part of the British Empire at the time...

[ManBeatles]

RARE!

[FansFiltration]

I'm glad I can share it with all fans.

[latta4]

Heartbreaking and spellbinding. John Lennon is/was the Man! We love you!

(thanks for this priceless post)

[jillaaree]

Man of the Century for me too!

[jillaaree]

@FansFiltration Thanks for this bit of trivia. I did not know this. Thank you

[summerstone7]

i read that on lsd john lennon thought he was christ, and brought the other beatles together to tell them. did he consiounsly try to "immitate" christ?

or was it unconsiouss? becuase i definately see a parallel.

[1m2a3t4t5]

@MacJaxonManOfAction

tell me more, eversince I saw a movie in my social studies class about Ghandi I just kept thinking how similar John Lennon was to him and how John must have taken a lot of wisdom from from, and the glasses.

[103121]

@sandykopi  I agree - love the man

[johnlennon1970]

Man of the Century!

[chris14S]

It's terrible that he never made it to dinner.

[sandykopi]

Man of the century, for me.

[Bellyflops2]

So ironic how he died