Today I found out… John Lennon once almost beat a man to ath. Was John Lennon gay? “Why are you brgg up such a ridiculo qutn? Who r if he was gay? I thought this article was about John Lennon almost beatg a guy to ath.” Well, is, is, keep readg and you…
Contents:
- THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
- THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
- GAY HISTORY: JOHN LENNON ONCE ALMOST BEAT A MAN TO DEATH
THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner. * gay beatles *
Were The Beatl gay? One of the most inic stars of The Beatl, Rgo Starr had a new terview wh Para’s Jim Farber and revealed his ias about ‘gay accatns’ about The Beatl’ Brian Epste. “The Beatl had a gay manager, Brian Epste, at a time when beg gay was illegal England and very much stigmatized.
What was the band’s attu about gay people back then? “I had known a lot of gay men.
However, the longstandg mour claims that the song was wrten for The Beatl manager, Brian Epste, who was openly homosexual durg a time when was still outlawed the UK, and societal issu towards sexualy were still firmly stuck the dark ag. Please exce his language, but his 2006 tobgraphy The Beatl, Football And Me, he claimed: “John wasn’t a homosexual but he was daft enough to try anythg once”. Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct.
THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much.
“The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate. And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty. “Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr.
GAY HISTORY: JOHN LENNON ONCE ALMOST BEAT A MAN TO DEATH
“It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man. Up until 1967, beg gay was illegal Bra, and long after that law changed, gay men remaed a target of police entrapment, blackmail and beatgs. As managers of some of the era’s most potent Brish rock bands, they stood at the foreont of sounds, sensibili and styl that would molish and remake pop gay managers of that era were forthright about their sexualy, if only among iends and lleagu.