NEWS: Beatle Misbehaved at Playboy Mansion

CELEB: Beatle Misbehaved at Playboy Mansion

Despite his post-mortem ascention to god-like status, peace lovin' John Lennon was a dick. During a 1974 visit to the Playboy Mansion, the former Beatle almost got his ass kicked by some partygoers after he put out his cigarette on one of Hef's priceless Matisse paintings. At the time, Lennon was going through one of his prolonged separations from estranged wife Yoko Ono and blamed the incident on his being completely fucking wasted. Imagine that...

i'd let one icon destroy the painting of another....hey there's that matisse that lennon put his cigarette out on...awesome...

^^^hah. i agree. i think the worth of the painting doubled after that.

i'd smack his face

Anyone who knows anything about John Lennon knows that he was always a total hell-raiser. By his own admission, he was cruel, jealous, egotistical, and all the rest. But even when he was being a dick, he did it brilliantly. What better gesture than putting out your cigarette on an expensive status-symbol/investment owned by some old fuck?

i think it would only increase in value as a pop culture piece

Wow, I've never seen so much John Lennon bashing. Usually everybody kisses his ass.

I'm sure Hef isn't bitter over it.

O Noes?!?

I found some good Lennon You Tubeness of something I've never seen. Surprisingly good quality for a You Tube upload. The making of the Imagine album:



Six more parts:

By his own admission, he was also Jesus.

One of his heroes, huh? I always knew Hef was a pinko.

maybe not, but he's still talking about it 33 years later. let's not forget that hefner is a first-class asshole, himself.

If it wasn't it certainly is after it became "news" now.

I hate the destruction of art, but it is sort of art somehow perhaps to have a work of art altered by another artist - I'd stil be pissed. I'd certainly be wary of letting him drink in my mansion again.

If I were rich I'd probably bid on the painting.

Just makes him cooler in my eyes.

being a great songwriter doesn't make someone a great human being. There's no reason to ever pretend otherwise.

celebrate lennon as a brilliant composer and an entertaining musician, but don't excuse his bullshit.

As much as I love his music, when I think of Lennon I always harken back to how he treated his "pre yoko" family
poor julien

fixed

My father grew up in Liverpool, though he's a little younger than the Beatles. He used to tell me how he found it funny that Lennon was all peace and love, considering he had a reputation for being a dick and causing problems in pubs.

Of course, he still had the utmost respect for the dude. I mean, it's still Lennon

That's so punk rock.




Sorry, had to say it.

Dude, respecting people and their things is so lame.