John Lennon
GIVEN KNEECAP’S recent troubles with British police and media, along with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch, it will be interesting to see how film maker Sam Mendes, currently preparing to make films about each of The Beatles, handles the radical politics of John Lennon.
Even before the Kneecap controversy, there had been arguments about just how much influence their Irish antecedents had on The Beatles and their music. But Lennon’s politics left little room for doubt.
Unlike Kneecap, Lennon did not perform under satirical licence and when he participated in a protest march through central London in 1971, he carried a placard that said: “For the IRA against British Imperialism.”
Will Mendes deal with this aspect of Lennon’s life?
