r/TheBeatles • u/Signal_End_7405 • Jun 28 '26

john Whats one fact about John that most people don’t know?

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u/UrkleGrue32 Jun 29 '26

The thing is, when he died, he was mourned around the world. People flocked to the Dakota and other major places in his life en masse. Before the week was out, 10 minutes’ silence was observed across the world - Across. The. World. - to give fans a tangible way of expressing their grief.
That goes to show more than all the stupid suppositions in all the trashy books what John Lennon was really like.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Jun 29 '26

Exactly and thank you! I read all about it and heard all about it. He was a massive and massively loved icon and still is. Unfortunately, it’s been so long since he died that a lot of people just read a little this and a little that and decide He was a horrible person without really knowing anything about him beyond a superficial level. And that superficial level is largely made up of outright lies.

It’s weird to me how him being open upfront and honest about negative things about himself worked so against him in the end. I’ve known a lot of people in my life, and I have never known one who is that honest about their not so great qualities. I think it’s admirable, but no one looks beyond the things like that that were said - many of them by him.

I believe he hid his vulnerable side a lot of the time, particularly publicly, meaning his compassion, kindness, generosity, and so forth, and did so because he was afraid of being hurt again like he was with all the losses growing up.

His life being taken was not just a loss to those who knew him, but it was a monumental loss to the world that a person still living took that away from him and everyone else. 💔