tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post899566066256530934..comments2024-03-28T14:09:53.330-07:00Comments on The Song In My Head Today: And the first song up is . . . Holly A Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-83910154554353955852016-10-31T19:41:08.911-07:002016-10-31T19:41:08.911-07:00Well, Carole King is one of my alter-egos and so I...Well, Carole King is one of my alter-egos and so I'm intrigued by that connection. <br /><br />But I love what you say about John's unguarded admissions of what he really thought and felt. So different from today -- God forbid he'd have to tweet every thought as he evolved into a person we could respect.<br /><br />How rare is it that a person who scored such unprecedented levels of early fame could still be willing to learn, to grow, to evolve?<br /><br />I credit Aunt Mimi for making John such a stand-up guy. She gave him room to be a rebel but called him home when push came to shove.<br />Holly A Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-7711460358734122932016-10-31T19:17:04.872-07:002016-10-31T19:17:04.872-07:00John was very much a product of his time and his a...John was very much a product of his time and his anger issues. He famously took that out on his friends and on women verbally (and, unfortunately, physically).<br /><br />I think this is a less violent and more veiled story of how he mistreated a woman he met... and then covered it up to massage his ego.<br /><br />In Carole King's autobiography, she wrote about how excited she was to meet the Beatles when they came to New York in 1964 (or maybe 1965). She said that the others were pleasant, but that John got graphic and weird and sexual in talking to her and made her flee the room. More than ten years later, she ran into him again and told him off for the way he'd treated her. He owned up to it, apologized, and basically said that when he felt bested by women he'd start trying to demean them one way or another.<br /><br />For better and often worse, John was relatively unguarded about what he really thought and felt. And that often made him look like a jerk. I know his thinking about a lot of things (including the power of women) evolved over time. One of the saddest things about his (relatively) early death is that we never got a chance to see how he would have treated people as a mature adult.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13372496375739714441noreply@blogger.com