分享John Lennon 的一段故事和他的三首歌

可能很多的网友都听过他的歌，即使你不是个音乐爱好者，在坐计程车的时刻，特别是在纽约或旧金山这样的城市，你很难没听过他的歌。

他的歌太多了，潇洒，真挚，充满了自由的想象和善良的愿望，他离去的事实几乎让几代人都无法接受。1980年的12月8日，在纽约市的Dakota公寓的一间办公室里，正在等候着John Lennon的伙伴Hastings突然听到外面的枪声；他看见他的亲密朋友，颤步跌爬在台阶上，他挣扎着几步就瘫倒在地，握在手里的磁带洒落在地。

悲痛而冷静的Hastings细心地从Lennon那昏迷的脸上摘下那副被以为很酷的眼镜，并拿下他脖子上的领带来帮他止血，可血正从Lennon的胸部和嘴里喷出。最后警察到来，他，这个优秀的音乐人，在被送去罗斯福医院后，抢救无效而离世了。
而后来的调查结果表明：枪杀他的竟然是一个喝醉的粉丝。那一天，John Lennon：
一个40岁的父亲和丈夫被宣告死亡。

John Winston One Lennon（列侬）在1940年10月9日出生于英国Liverpool 一个工人家庭。Lennon的父亲在他只有3岁时就遗弃了家庭。Lennon小时候在姨母（Mimi）家长大，和很多缺乏父爱的孩子一样，Lennon叛逆性极强，喜欢画卡通片来嘲笑他的老师。但他他还是得到了姨父和姨母的指点和母亲的关爱。是母亲朱丽叶给他买了第一把吉他。母亲后来死于车祸16岁时，在看出他的音乐天赋的姨母央求下下，他所在的学校校长给他（列侬）写了一封推荐信，使列侬有机会利物浦的艺术学校上学。他开始迷恋音乐，在1957年初在学校里组织了一个摇滚乐队，便是世界闻名的Beatles乐队的前身。 他是个歌手，写手，作家，演员，更是一个爱好和平的艺术家。他用艺术的形式充分地发泄了的叛逆性，这在一部名为《As A Hard Day's Night》的电影和《In His Own Write》,有比较详细的记载。

这里有一段他当年接受采访时对《甲壳虫》乐队的解释：

Lennon: "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way."

Reporter: "Some teenagers have repeated your statements - "I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What do you think about that?"
Lennon: "Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."

Reporter: "But are you prepared to apologise?"

Lennon: "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."[70]

在 Beatles 时代 之后，他又成功地单飞过一阵。这期间他写了《给和平一次几乎》，《想象》等备受推崇的歌曲。无论是对爱情、平困、宗教还是战争，列侬都有自己的独到见解。

在个人生活方面，他有过两次婚姻和两个儿子。他的第二任妻子是来自日本的艺术家：Yoko Ono(大野洋子)。1966年，大野洋子开个人画展的前一天，Lennon出现了，看到墙上的“钉钉子”这部作品时，便问洋子可否也让他钉钉子？洋子开始说还没公开，不行。稍作考虑后，又说，如果你花上5先令，那要钉也可以。列侬回答说，我想像付了5先令，那我就可以钉个想像中的钉子了吧？他们的爱情就这样开始了，因为Yoko觉得“能如此幽默地回答，这人跟我有同样的感受”。是她让列侬成为一个有责任感的父亲，虽然这段爱情并没有一个美好的结局。

1971年春天，Lennon和洋子移居美国纽约。在那年秋天，Lennon发行了他迄今为止最受欢迎的单曲"Imaging"。他和洋子在阿姆斯特丹举行了著名的“Bed-In-for-peace”行动，口号是“给和平一个机会”，他们向全世界发出呼吁“武力不会对和平有任何帮助，任何人都可以通过躺在床上一星期而获得和平，在寻求和平的各种方法中这是最简单又最有效的。”

他的故事太长，太复杂，在这里打住，和大家分享的三首歌，依次为：《不要让我失望》，《站在我身边》和《想象》。

DONG’T LET ME DOWN!
(Lennon/McCartney)

Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.

Nobody ever loved me like she does,
oo, she does, yeh, she does.
And if somebody loved me like she do me,
oo, she do me, yes, she does.

Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.

I'm in love for the first time.
Don't you know it's gonna last.
It's a love that lasts forever,
It's a love that had no past.

Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.

And from the first time that she really done me,
oo, she done me, she done me good.
I guess nobody ever really done me,
oo, she done me, she done me good.

Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.




Stand by me

PERFORMED BY JOHN LENNON (1975)

WHEN THE NIGHT HAS COME
AND THE LAND IS DARK
AND THE MOON IS THE ONLY LIGHT WE SEE
NO I WON'T BE AFRAID
NO I WON'T BE AFRAID
JUST AS LONG
AS YOU STAND, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DARLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
IF THE SKY
THAT WE LOOK UPON
SHOULD TUMBLE AND FALL
AND THE MOUNTAINS
SHOULD CRUMBLE
TO THE SEA
I WON'T CRY, I WON'T CRY
NO I WON'T SHARE A TEAR
JUST AS LONG
AS YOU STAND, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DA
RLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
WHENEVER YOUR IN TROUBLE
WON'T YOU STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DARLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME






Imagine:
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

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 be as one

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

所有跟帖： 

• 对， 他的歌《潇洒，真挚充满了自由的想象和善良的愿望。。。》 -法国薰衣草- ♀ (62 bytes) () 01/01/2009 postreply 10:45:06

• 谢谢介绍，很喜欢听！ -草微子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/01/2009 postreply 11:07:17

• 美好，很美好，永远的偶像。。。 -小龙过江- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/01/2009 postreply 14:31:31

• Love his "Woman" too, it is so sincerely and dedicated -xyz5678- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/01/2009 postreply 16:52:38

• In my humble opinion, -yahoobug- ♀ (68 bytes) () 01/01/2009 postreply 22:44:57