We kick off 2025 with the continuation of our lengthy exploration of John Lennon’s religious, spiritual and philosophical journey.
Part 2 starts with more of John and the Beatles’ general beliefs about the world before starting a chronology of the Beatle years from the particular perspective of Steve Turner’s book ‘The Gospel According To The Beatles’
We go back to John’s Sunday School grounding and his always ambivalent attitude to Jesus Christ and the religion he spawned, through the school years, his ‘religious’ (so to speak) devotion to rock and roll, Stu and Astrid, Hamburg, existentialism and finally the freedom-loving philosophy and behaviour of the Beatlemania-era foursome in 1963 and 64.
Ref- the intro clips come from John Lennon’s Playboy interviews shortly before his death in 1980. The outro song is by ‘The Fab Four’ Beatles tribute band
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Jon Stewart’s book ‘Dylan, Lennon, Marx & God’
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59593530-dylan-lennon-marx-and-god
Steve Turner’s ‘A Hard Day’s Write’ book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35666.A_Hard_Day_s_Write
episode links
Royston Ellis on the 1960 Beatles
https://www.ibtimes.com/beatles-1960-liverpool-royston-ellis-remembers-996876
The original ‘Beatnik Horror’ article from 1960
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29873672@N02/6897934379
Jude Kessler on John & Stu’s relationship (‘Pop Goes The 60s’ channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbED8SRpUoI
‘Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink’ (linking 2 genres)
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