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DISGRACELAND

John Lennon: Violence, Protests, Provoking the FBI, and Pissing off the President

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1970s, John Lennon was suspected of conspiring to disrupt an American political convention and contributing to a paramilitary terrorist organization. Authorities took notice. So much so that the President of the United States took action to have the so-called “smart Beatle” deported. Lennon’s politics were way more violent and revolutionary than simply imagining all the people living life in peace and harmony. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Double Elvis.

0:05.0

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0:10.5

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0:19.7

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0:25.5

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0:30.5

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0:34.4

Visit disgraceland pod.com slash membership and sign up today.

0:39.2

Disgraysland is a production of Double Elvis. The one-time loveable Beetle aligned himself with violent

1:04.4

revolutionaries was suspected of conspiring to disrupt a national political

1:09.2

convention. freed an unjustly jailed Doped was alleged to have contributed financially

1:14.7

to a paramilitary terrorist organization

1:17.4

and he survived a home invasion that eerily forecast

1:20.7

his own shooting.

1:21.8

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

1:27.0

The highest levels of the United States federal government worried about the pop star's influence on American youth and combated as radical politics by attempting to deport the ex-Beatle.

1:38.0

But before these events, John Lennon of, made great music.

1:43.0

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show.

1:46.2

That wasn't great music.

1:48.0

That was a preset loop from my Melotron,

1:50.4

called Portly Prowler, MK1.

1:53.8

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to family affair by Sly and the

1:58.6

Family Stone.

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