Is there a world-famous popular song that's worse than Lennon's "Imagine"? Not to me:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Yuck. Beyond the communism is the almost sickeningly sweet naivete. Nice pose if you're a millionaire rock musician living in a luxury penthouse on Central Park West. But it makes me want to wretch.
A talented boy who was in the right place at the right time -- on the cusp of rock and roll and in a band with Paul McCartney -- and who got famous and made millions off his talent, and then, because of those millions, never had to grow up.
