With the Vietnam War still raging and a mass populous of the United States citizenry in an uproar, President Richard Nixon took office in 1969 amid civil chaos. John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, moved to the U.S. in September 1971, where they quickly established a reputation for promoting and throwing their support behind antiwar sentiment...
With the Vietnam War still raging and a mass populous of the United States citizenry in an uproar, President Richard Nixon took office in 1969 amid civil chaos. John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, moved to the U.S. in September 1971, where they quickly established a reputation for promoting and throwing their support behind antiwar sentiment...
By 1971, however, the Vietnam conflict still showed few signs of ending, and President Richard Nixon seemed more concerned with stopping Lennon's …
Few people have had a more profound influence on pop culture and music than John Lennon. With Paul McCartney, he's one half of arguably the greatest songwriting partnership of all time. With the Beatles, he claimed to be "more popular than Jesus." He was one of the most famous anti-war advocates of his time, and his solo career spawned such time-tested hits that the merest mention of the word "imagine" is likely to make that song play in your head...
One of the many stand-out photographs of John Lennon has him posed before the Statue of Liberty. Besides simply being a very John Lennon picture, the …
When it comes to music, the FBI hasn't historically been the nation's valiant protector so much as its been everyone's grouchy, hopelessly out of touch, often blatantly racist grandparent. When jazz, folk, rock, and hip-hop were quenching the public's thirst for disruption and all sorts of establishment-challenging goodness, feathers and flattop haircuts were being ruffled in Washington by the SUV-load. Where most saw cathartic expressions of creativity and truth, the FBI saw noisy degenerates who needed to get off America's lawn, pronto — or after a few decades of monitoring and harassment, in some cases...
