Sat 6 Dec 2008
John Lennon – Working Class Hero (Musical Interlude)
Posted by Jeffman under music videos, musical interlude
[3] Comments
Monday will mark 28 years since John Lennon’s murder in New York.
This is Jeffman’s favourite song of Lennon’s post-Beatle’s stuff and easily the stand-out track on 1970’s otherwise lacklustre Plastic Ono Band album.
‘Working Class Hero’
Enjoy 
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Jeffman on 
December 6th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Plastic Ono Band a lacklustre album? I beg to differ. In my opinion, it was his only solo album of any lasting merit, a must for any Beatle fan.
The album is all crash and burn vitriol with Lennon trying to cope with:
1 No longer being in The Beatles, the greatest band in the world – and at the time, in a global-changing decade, in the unique position of straddling Culture & Counter-culture
2 No longer being with McCartney, his true love. (In my eyes, Ono was a kooky Oedipal figure, not an equal)
3 Suspecting that he would never write a great tune (not song) again – and he didn’t
Andrew Goulding
December 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Andrew Goulding: A sterling analysis indeed, sir, and one I agree with to a certain extent. Trouble is I find most of his solo stuff, apart from the occasional song, to be a bit rubbish. But then, it was always going to be difficult living up to what had come before.
December 27th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Nah, Lennon was vampirized by Ono. Sucked dry! He was just scared to acknowledge it.