Sunday, December 9, 2012

THE 'REAL JOHN LENNON,' REVEALED AT LAST


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The man called upon by the Beatles to run their record division, and named as the U.S. manager of their Apple Records beginning in 1968, says a new short movie project, “Genius,” gets the story right about John Lennon.
The project, by evangelist Ray Comfort, has been described as a new and chilling movie on the life and tragic murder of Lennon.
“It’s chilling because it reveals what people will do for money,” said Comfort. “There are ordinary people out there who would kill you. All they need is the right money and the belief that they won’t get caught.”
Just before he was murdered, John Lennon told Playboy magazine that he didn’t want to die at 40. Ironically the famous singer was gunned down at the age of 40 by a man who killed him just because he wanted to become famous.
“John Lennon was a musical genius,” says Comfort. “All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good…and I’m not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations. The Beatles have sold more than 2,303,500,000 record albums, and in June of 2012 they hit number one on iTunes. They are as big now as they ever were and they’re half dead – with the tragic loss of Lennon and Harrison.”
Ken Mansfield, who was a member of the Beatles inner sanctum for years and was on top of the Apple building in London as the Fab Four played for the last time, said, “‘Genius’ will open your eyes.”
He says he knew the real John Lennon, and “That’s who we have portrayed in ‘Genius’ – the real John Lennon.”
Comfort said, “It has twists and turns that you don’t expect. ‘Genius’ shows another unheard of side of John Lennon and that will certainly ‘open your eyes,’ as Ken Mansfield so aptly said.”
The movie was released for free viewing on GeniusTheMovie.com. and is available online.
Scheduled for release this weekend is the companion book written by Comfort,
“The Beatles, God and the Bible.”
The book and video are in the tradition of his stunning “180″ short feature that accompanied Comfort’s “Hitler, God and the Bible.”
Not too many people know that John Lennon met Paul McCartney while at a church function, or that John was a choirboy. Nor do they know that at the height of their fame in 1965, all four Beatles professed to be atheists.
Yet in 1980, John had moved from proudly stating that they were more popular than Jesus, to humbly saying: “I’m a most religious fellow … I was brought up a Christian, and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables.” As a young man, George Harrison wrote, “I want to find God. I’m not interested in material things, this world, fame – I’m going for the real goal.” Later in life, Ringo Starr said, “For me, God is in my life. I don’t hide from that.” In the 1990s, Paul McCartney said, “I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.” He prayed for his wife when she was having trouble giving birth to their daughter, and his 2001 song “Freedom” spoke of freedom as “a right given by God.”
Little has been said of the spiritual side of the world’s most famous music group. “The Beatles, God, and the Bible” changes that with its unique and fascinating insight into the spirituality of the Fab Four.
Mansfield also wrote the forward for the book.
Ray Comfort is the founder/president/CEO of Living Waters Publications. From humble beginnings, the ministry has become internationally recognized, reaching the lost and equipping Christians with every necessary resource to fulfill the great commission. In addition to his main ministry, Ray is co-host (with Kirk Cameron) of the award-winning television program “The Way of the Master,” which airs in 70 countries around the world. He also co-hosts a daily radio program by the same name, airing on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network and hundreds of terrestrial stations. Ray is a bestselling author of more than 60 books. He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California, where they have three grown children.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

John Lennon was a lot of things but not a musical genius. The beatles benefited from mass media marketing. Ask any guitar player. Beatles music is like a popup book compared to the novel musical genius of master song writers like Gordon Lightfoot or Hary Chapin. You can learn a Beatles song in a couple of hours. They are a lot of repetition with few chords.