{"id":4548,"date":"2010-12-02T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:56:45","slug":"bullshit-on-beatles-fans-who-didnt-call-bullshit-on-linda-regarding-her-failure-to-call-bullshit-on-pauls-worst-musical-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bullshit-on-beatles-fans-who-didnt-call-bullshit-on-linda-regarding-her-failure-to-call-bullshit-on-pauls-worst-musical-tendencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit On: Beatles Fans Who Didn&#8217;t Call Bullshit On Linda Regarding Her Failure to Call Bullshit On Paul&#8217;s Worst Musical Tendencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>A longtime lurking Townswoman posted the following question on her Facebook page, which she said we could hash out in all our nerdy glory here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why does Yoko get such a bad rap, and no one gives Linda shit for letting Paul write the screenplay and star in <em>Give My Regards to Broad Street<\/em>? She could have put a stop to this nonsense!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In our offlist chat, she added, &#8220;Just because you used to be a Beatle doesn&#8217;t make you infallible!&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fqTDUiUdTtw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This raises a plethora of RTH-worthy questions, among them, <em>Does Linda deserve shit\u00a0for not blowing the whistle on Paul&#8217;s worst\u00a0musical tendencies?<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Do Beatles fans deserve shit for not calling bullshit on Linda re: Paul as they did on Yoko re: John?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think Linda was not held in as negative a regard as Yoko because Paul didn&#8217;t need Linda to &#8220;bring him down&#8221; in any way. He was perfectly capable of sucking without her &#8220;help.&#8221;\u00a0This is not to suggest\u00a0that Yoko really <em>made<\/em> Lennon turn out a good deal of solo crap on his own, but John gave off\u00a0a strong sense of dependency on Yoko, while Paul seemed to simply enjoy Linda&#8217;s company. Also playing a role, I would think, is the fact that Yoko was an artist in her own right, while Linda, photography career ignored, was considered little more than the &#8220;cook of the house.&#8221;\u00a0Yoko and John presented themselves as equals and collaborators, whereas Paul and Linda presented themselves as more of a traditional &#8220;married team,&#8221; in the 1950s sense.<\/p>\n<p>I also found it interesting that another longtime lurking Townswoman responding to\u00a0this Facebook post\u00a0brought up unfair criticisms Linda received for her\u00a0perceived lack of\u00a0Paul-worthy beauty. I\u00a0always thought she was pretty good looking and never felt like Paul should have chosen me or a woman I would have picked out for him, but since\u00a0it was mentioned I do now recall\u00a0Beatles fans having that hang-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime lurking Townswoman posted the following question on her Facebook page, which she said we could hash out in all our nerdy glory here: Why does Yoko get such a bad rap, and no one gives Linda shit for letting Paul write the screenplay and star in Give My Regards to Broad Street? She <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bullshit-on-beatles-fans-who-didnt-call-bullshit-on-linda-regarding-her-failure-to-call-bullshit-on-pauls-worst-musical-tendencies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[87,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}