If you listen you'll see that what he said portrays the world as it is today.
By that time musicians, artists, writers,and all of those who were in the culture arena were part of the anti-establishment movement, anti-war movement or counterculture or any movement for fight for freedom and a better world.
It was not about leadership. It has to do with saying what many who don't have a microphone was thinking and uniting people who wanted to change the world.
In the era of celebrities it was lost.
"I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives..."
"If anybody can put on paper what our government, the American government etc., and Russian and China, what they are actually trying to do, what do they think they're doing I would be very pleased to
know what they think they're doing!"
"All we have to do is awaken the power in the people. The people are unaware, they are not
educated to realize that they have power."
"Everybody believes that the father will fix everything, the father being the government... the government will fix everything, it is all government's fault and shake this - Lennon show his fist - but we are the government.
"Lennon was inspired to write the song by a 19th century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that he purchased in an antique shop in on 31 January 1967, while filming the promotional video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Sevenoaks, Kent.[ Lennon said that
"Everything from the song is from that poster, except the horse wasn't called Henry." (The poster identifies the horse as "Zanthus".) Mr. Kite is believed to be William Kite, who worked for Pablo Fanque from 1843 to 1845." Wikipedia.
The iconic photo of the Beatles on the crossing outside Abbey Road Studios was taken 40 years ago on Saturday 8th August 1969. The photograph, taken by Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan, features John Lennon in a white suit and a barefoot Paul McCartney. Ever since the image appeared on the front of their Abbey Road album, the crossing has become a place of pilgrimage. Scores of Beatles fans visit every day to recreate the famous pose.
Abbey Road
Now there is talk that the iconic St John’s Wood zebra crossing made famous by The Beatles could be moved – because it is becoming an accident hotspot. Every year, fans head down to Abbey Road to take pictures on the crossing – immortalised on the Fab Four's 1969 Abbey Road cover. And this weekend, hundreds of fans flocked to the site to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the photo and to recreate the steps taken by John, Paul, Ringo and George. But an increase in the number of music lovers making the trip to the north-west London crossing has coincided with a rise in the number of accidents, according to figures from Westminster Council.
Since 2000, there have been 22 accidents, but residents believe many more have gone unreported, so officials are considering whether to dig up the crossing and move its black-and-white stripes and flashing beacons further down the road. Lindsey Hall, a councillor in the Abbey Road ward, said: "Maybe it’s time to end this once and for all and move this zebra crossing.”It may end up coming to that."However, a spokesman for Westminster Council said the crossing could be allowed to stay at its location and that the problem may be with the road junction, not the crossing. "The issue with that crossing is the busy junction. We have looked into a redesign."
Fans at the famous Abbey Road zebra crossing for the 40th anniversary of the Beatles album cover
A Day in the Life is a song by the British rock band The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, based on an original idea by Lennon. It is the final track on the group's 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the 26th greatest song of all time. As you know the Beatles were from Liverpool, sometimes known as Dublin East, for its strong Irish population and connections and there is an Irish connection to the “A Day in the Life.”
Luggala House
The Honourable Garech Browne (An t’Onoarch Garech de Brún)
The first verse was written about the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune and close friend of Lennon and McCartney, who had crashed his Lotus Élan on 18 December 1966 when he apparently went through a red light at high speed (possibly drunk or using drugs) and hit a truck in his path in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court. Tara was the younger brother of Garech Browne (An t’Onoarch Garech de Brún) who has done much for Irish Music with his Claddagh Records label which he founded. Garech was instantly recognisable around Dublin by his famous pony-tail, wispy beard, tweed suit and dapper appearance and his wonderful old Bentley parked on the pavement outside Peter’s Pub in South William Street.
Lough Tay, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
He would disappear every winter and in the spring invaribly arrive “in town” with a new eastern beauty on his arm. He was married in 1981 to the Princess Purna of Morvi, daughter of His Highness Sri Mahendra Sinhji (of the Jadeja dynasty and the last Maharaja of Morvi) in India, where he spends part of each year.
Tara Browne's obit in The Times
His former house, Woodtown Manor, near Dublin was for many years a welcoming place for Irish poets, writers and musicians and which was associated with the folk-pop group Clannad, where they made many recordings of their music. When in Ireland, he lives at Luggala set deep in the Wicklow Mountains. The house has been variously described as a castle or hunting lodge of large proportions which he inherited from his mother. It is a wonderful gingerbread gothic building and has a wonderful private setting on its own lake, Lough Tay. Garech has put white sand around his black lake so that it resembles a glass of Guinness! Tara Browne is buried in the grounds.
