About john lennon'cold turkey

 

1965年 10 月 26 日，上午十一时，披头到达伦敦白金汉宫，接受英女皇伊利沙伯二世颁授 MBE (Member of the British Empire) 勋章。然後披头 跟著在 Saville Theatre  举行记者招持会，以下的访问是取自Beatles Ultimate Experience

PAUL: "The man shouted out, 'George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr.' And Starr was the cue for us to walk forward. Left foot first. It was just like a show."

RINGO: "Then we bowed, and then we walked to the Queen. Then we walked back and bowed, and then walked away."

JOHN: "Left foot forward! We were drilled beforehand by some big guardsman fella. And every time he was reading out the names and he got to Ringo Starr, he kept cracking up!"

RINGO: "Nice man."

PAUL: "There was nobody trying to get at us, though, they were all friendly, you know. In fact, we did about fifty autographs for all the people who were getting..."

JOHN: "We signed for all the people waiting to get their MBEs and OBEs."

Q: "You were signing autographs to these people?"

PAUL AND JOHN: "Yeah."

PAUL: "But they were all nice, you know. There was only one fella who said, 'I want it for my daughter. I don't know what she sees in you.'"

JOHN: "Did he say that?"

PAUL: "Yeah."

Q: "What did you think of meeting the Queen?"

PAUL: "She's lovely... very friendly. She's got a keen pad. And I liked the staff. I thought they'd be like Dukes and things, but they were just fellas."

JOHN: "She said to me, 'Have you been working hard lately?' And I couldn't think what we had been doing so I said, 'No, we've been having a holiday.' We'd been recording, but I couldn't remember."

PAUL: "And then she said to me, 'Have you been together long?' And I said 'Yes, many years.' And Ringo said, 'Forty years.'"

RINGO: "From the song of the same name."

PAUL: "And then she laughed."

RINGO: "Yes, she laughed."

PAUL: "We all had a little laugh."

GEORGE: "She just said, 'It's a pleasure to be giving it you,' you know That's what she said to everyone. And then she put John's on, and said to him, 'Have you been working hard?'"

JOHN: "I must've looked shattered."

RINGO: "I was just butting in while she spoke to everyone else, you know. She said, 'Did you start it all?' And I said, 'No, they did.'"

PAUL: "And then he said, 'I'm the little one.'"

(laughter)

RINGO: "And I said, 'I joined last. I'm the little fella,' as I am."

JOHN: "Isn't that cute?"

 

以下是评论披头授勋的报导:

富年英国首相威尔逊 (Harold Wilson) 有份负责披头授勋，在 1982 年接受访问，讲述有关事件的感想。

"I saw the Beatles, as having a transforming effect on the minds of youth, mostly for the good. It kept a lot of kids off the streets. They introduced many many young people to music, which in itself was a good thing. A lot of old stagers might have regarded it as idiosyncratic music, but the Mersey sound was a new important thing. That's why they deserved such recognition."

 

曾任披头的Press Officer Nicholas Schaffner在他写“The Boys From Liverpool – John, Paul, George, Ringo” 一书指出

“About a dozen of the queen's most distinguished subjects sent back their own medals in a huff as soon as they heard about the Beatles' getting them.

Paul Pearson, a former Royal Air Force squadron leader, claimed he did so "because it had become debased."

A Canadian politician said he no longer wanted his MBE because it "put him on the same level with vulgar nincompoops."

John replied that most of the complainers had earned their medals "for killing people. I'd say we deserved ours more. Wouldn't you?"

 

John Lennon 在 1969 年九月一日退回他的 MBE勋章，原因有三，分别是反对英国介入比亚法拉共和国与尼日利亚内战，反对英国支持越南战争，和他的歌曲 “Cold Turkey” 被禁播。

Paul McCartney 在 1997 年三月十一日，被英女皇伊利沙伯二世封为 “Sir Paul”。

披头的事迹，震惊世界，前无古人，後无来者，能钩在此缅怀一番，抚今追昔，不胜唏嘘！