GIMME
SOME TRUTH
JOHN
LENNON
SONGWRITER:
JOHN LENNON
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: IMAGINE
LABEL: APPLE RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1971
John Winston Ono Lennon[nb 1] (born John
Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer,
songwriter, musician and peace
activist who achieved worldwide fame as the
founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
His songwriting
partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono.
After the Beatles
disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued a career
as a solo artist and as Ono's collaborator.
Born in Liverpool,
Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1956, he formed his first band, the Quarrymen,
which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. He was initially the group's de facto leader, a
role gradually ceded to McCartney. Lennon was characterised for the rebellious
nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in
interviews. In the mid-1960s, he had two books published: In His Own Write and A
Spaniard in the Works, both collections of nonsense writings and line drawings. Starting with 1967's "All
You Need Is Love", his songs were adopted as
anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
From 1968 to 1972, Lennon produced more than
a dozen records with Ono, including a trilogy of avant-garde albums, his first solo LP John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and the
international top 10 singles "Give
Peace a Chance", "Instant Karma!",
"Imagine" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".
In 1969, he held the two week-long anti-war demonstration Bed-Ins for Peace.
After moving to New York City in 1971, his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a three-year attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him.
In 1975, Lennon disengaged from the music business to raise his infant son Sean and, in 1980, returned with the Ono collaboration Double Fantasy.
He was shot
and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building by a Beatles fan, Mark
David Chapman, three weeks after the album's
release.
As a performer, writer or co-writer, Lennon
had 25 number one singles in the Billboard
Hot 100 chart. Double Fantasy, his
best-selling album, won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In
1982, Lennon was honoured with the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
In 2002, Lennon was voted eighth in a BBC poll of the 100
Greatest Britons. Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer and thirty-eighth greatest artist of all time. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (in 1997) and
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (twice, as a
member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1994).
"Gimme Some Truth" (originally
spelled "Give Me Some Truth") is a protest song written and performed by John
Lennon. It was first released on his 1971 album Imagine. "Gimme Some Truth"
contains various political references emerging from the time it was written, during
the latter years of the Vietnam War.
Co-produced by Phil Spector,
the recording includes a slide guitar solo played by George
Harrison, Lennon's former bandmate in the Beatles.
In
1982, "Gimme Some Truth" was issued as the B-side of "Love" on a posthumous single. The
song provided the title track for the 2000 documentary film Gimme Some Truth:
The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album.
I'm sick and tired of
hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired,
yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope
No short-haired,
yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope
I'm sick to death of
seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now
I've had enough of
watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired,
yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
It's money for dope
Money for rope
Ah, I'm sick and
tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
I've had enough of
reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the
truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth.
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