This is exactly right.

Double Elvis.

All right,

guys, listen, I love John Lennon.

I do, I truly do, but sometimes I've gone pretty hard at John in my episodes, but it's only because I admire him so much.

And the quality John had of wearing his heart on his sleeve and being as authentic as he could,

it was also the quality that landed him in a lot of trouble.

It caused him to also create some pretty bad music, if we're being honest.

But I'm picking nits because overall, John was one of the greatest to ever do it.

However, this episode, right now that you're about to hear, this archive episode that we're rewinding,

it deals with John's time in New York in the early 70s, a time when he was caught up with some folks who most likely didn't have John's best interests at heart.

There's some gun running, there's some drugs, some FBI surveillance, and, you know, your usual 70s revolutionary fare.

This is a look at a period in John Lennon's life in the details of his life from that time, that often get

overlooked.

I hope you dig it.

Disgrace, Iand, is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about John Lennon and his foray into politics are insane.

The one-time lovable Beatle aligned himself with violent revolutionaries,

was suspected of conspiring to disrupt a national political convention.

Freed and unjustly jailed dopehead was alleged to have contributed financially to a paramilitary terrorist organization, and he survived a home invasion that eerily forecast his own shooting.

John Lennon's turn, as Rock's most famous revolutionary was short-lived.

The highest levels of the United States federal government worried about the pop star's influence on American youth

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