It started as a good week for John Lennon, with the announce that Yoko Ono will give Pussy Riot the ‘Lennon Ono Peace Grant’ on Friday, then there was Liam Gallagher’s demonstration that Lennon was better than McCartney in NME, a magazine that has just named Lennon as the ‘Ultimate Musical Icon of the last 60 years’. Yes it started very well and it went really downhill after this, because of a group of UK activists,… the same ones who put a warning label on Chris Brown CDs at an HMV store in Cambridge last weekend.
The same ‘Warning, Do not buy this album, this man beats women’ sticker was applied on John Lennon’s CDs, and a photo of the ‘crime’ was posted on Twitter by the account @abusesticksout, indicating that the picture had been taken at a Fopp store in Manchester. Even if the store employees were able to find out and remove the sticker fast, it was already too late, the picture was out there on the internet, for the whole wide world to see!
‘We want to make abusers stick out. Society ignores their abuse. We won't.’ has also tweeted @abusesticksout… they have a lot to do if they want to apply the same reasoning to all the wife beaters of the music world! But is it relevant to do it to Lennon who has been dead for a while, This is such an old story and they should find some more recent candidates, I am sure they could, or apply it everybody else who has ever been violent with a woman,… Miles Davis, Ike Turner, James Brown, Mark E Smith? I can't name all of them.
And why not a sticker ‘Warning, Do not buy this movie, this man rapes women’ on Polanski’s DVDs? What about Mel Gibson? I would not even know where to begin… I mean the possibilities are endless!