By SJ Otto
Did John Lennon really turn conservative in
his final years? Did he become a Ronald Reagan fan? All of this comes from his
personal assistant. On his words alone quite a few people have decided that
Lennon was conservative. But just how conservative was he? Did he really turn
on all the people who supported him all his life and those who looked up to
him? I for one have relegalized lately not to put celebrities on a pedestal.
They will disappoint us every time. For some answers to this I turned to Andrew
Romano of The
Daily Beast:
Scores of
balding, graying, drooping Baby Boomer peaceniks must have choked on their
sweet and sour seitan Wednesday when reports surfaced about the “shocking”
claim made by Lennon’s last personal assistant in a new documentary. According
to Fred Seaman, who worked for Lennon from February 1979 until he was shot and
killed by a deranged fan on December 8, 1980, the counterculture icon who once
asked us to imagine a world without organized religion, personal property, or
national sovereignty was, in fact, a secret Ronald Reagan fan.
“John,
basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for
Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter,” says Seaman. “He’d met
Reagan back, I think, in the ‘70s at some sporting event [and] did express
support for [him], which shocked me.”
According
to the Toronto Sun, Seaman goes on to reveal that “John embark[ed] in [sic]
some really brutal arguments” with the assistant’s communist uncle, making it
“pretty obvious [that] he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.” Lennon
“was a very different person back in 1979 and ‘80 than he’d been when he wrote
‘Imagine,’” Seaman says. “By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was
embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”
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