Double Elvis.

Disgrace and is a production of Double Elvis.

Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis. John Lennon is celebrated as a defiant icon of the peace and love generation.

The Smart Beetle, a dedicated husband, endoting father to his young son,

whose life was tragically cut short by a bullet from a deranged fan.

All of that is true, and all of that is also untrue.

John Lennon was a violent, philandering, absentee dad, and drug and alcohol-abusing, insecure mess of a man,

whose life he left in the manipulative hands of his Machiavellian witch of a wife,

Yoko Ono, a woman he truly loved, and who truly loved him back.

Throughout his life, he'd been fiercely independent,

but by the 70s, he would hardly make any move of consequence

without first having his wife

consult the complicated cosmic algorithm of horoscopes, numerology, real-life oracles, and tarot cards.

He was a longtime critic of the trappings of the material world, yet he empowered his wife

to build a financial empire through real estate,

Egyptian art, and prized cattle, and was prone to lavish $100,000 shopping sprees on a whim.

He was one of the greatest musicians to ever record, yet after the Beatles, his records were marred

by creative inconsistency, and he'd seated his place atop the charts to his former

bandmate, Paul McCartney, a thing that bothered him so much that he avoided the radio for fear

of hearing the cute beetle blanketing the airwaves with silly love songs.

He was a walking contradiction, complicated, simple, completely full of shit, and totally true to himself all at the same time.

But by 1980, John Lennon was reclaiming the better parts of himself and starting over, making great music again.

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