I've always found Lennon annoying, just like Jagger, the Stones, and the Beatles. Of those bands, I loved and still love only The Who because they conveyed something "different" to me. His constant pacifist tendencies, his hypocritical nonsense about love, about peace, and that psychopathic, quirky demeanor, especially from the point when Yoko Ono got in the way, were all grating. But he is Lennon; he's one of those figures that are so charismatic, influential, and extraordinary that you couldn't possibly give him less than a five. It's the same story with the Pistols, with Lydon... egocentric assholes, but too important to be dismissed or judged as if they had written crap. It's like when you saw Clint Eastwood always acting in the same westerns, the same films where he played macho, egotistical inspectors. In the end, you followed him because, despite being mono-expressive, as cold as an icy watermelon, and inherently yankee, he was Eastwood. The figure becomes a monument, a kind of living milestone; it's impossible not to be fascinated. And yet, I give him a 4 because he should have ditched Ono.
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