legend

[cool-russian]

If John Lennon wasn't shot, would he be a living legend or just some ex member of a famous 60s combo?

[Stevee]

I have never taken drugs apart from alchohol and Nicotine.
but I am aware that huge amount of talented artists in all walks of the arts took drugs.

This goes back way beyond the 20th century and indeed use of opiates and hashish was quite wide amongst the great poets.

To decry the Beatles for popular drug use is like blaming an overflowing bath for flooding a street. Ridiculus.

Incidentaly alchohol kills more people in this country than any other drug so I trust you are similarly pious about drinking Ratter

[RATTER15]

Well actually yes I am Stevee!!

[andy-hughes]

I have been a Beatles and Lennon fan since 1963, and I cannot recall any of the band advocating drugs or alcohol as something thier 'followers' should indulge in.

Paul McCartney, when discussing his first use of LSD famously told a journalist that the 'responsibility' to fans was not his, but the media's - McCartney promised not to tell anyone if the journalist didn't. Guess who told people?

Musicians don't ask to be role models, or set themselves up as such. Very few seriously advocate drug use, unless to establish a quick headline, or underline a 'rebel' lifestyle.

There are dozens of public figures, a lot of whom are chosen and paid by the public who lead dreadful desolute lives while preaching sanctity to all - and no-one could argue that The Beatles did far more good, financially and culturally for us, than harm.

[Bellringer]

If he's dead, how can he be a LIVING legend?

[posiedon]

i don't think he was a good singer, then again i don't like the beatles to begin with, i think he was just a self publicist.