Peace, Love and Cruelty: Lennon's Dark Side

Get the new Beatles Rewind eBook FREE at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZD1QM92 Visit my Beatles Store at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3LlPVOI As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. See my archive of Beatles stories and videos: https://beatlesrewind.substack.com/archive John Lennon is one of the most mythologized figures in the history of music. The working-class wit who became a global icon. The angry young man who found peace. The rebel who told us to imagine a better world. All of that is real. But so is something much less grand—a history of cruelty toward disabled people that ran through his early career like a dark thread—shown in his writing, visible onstage. This isn’t about canceling John Lennon. It’s about looking at him whole.