# John Lennon is 70, what's he doing now????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471 "2010-10-08T11:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/41 "2010-10-10T00:17:17Z")
Late 80’s he became an investment banker and re-worked one of his songs as “Give Greed a Chance”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/42 "2010-10-10T00:28:39Z")
From [In another Dimension, the Beatles Never Broke Up](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=539985) from last year— > [@Ranchoth](#): > > Well, after that horrible dance-musical they did in 1985—uncharitably described by Vincent Canby as “as if ‘Xanadu’ and ‘Footloose’ had a baby, and left it in a forest to be reared by nymphs, only to be found and raised by wolves instead”—they probably _wished_ they had broken up. Which at least wasn’t as bad as Lennon’s shooting his mouth off with all those defeatist, pro-Soviet spiels back in '91 during Desert Storm. When USSR fell, he probably wished he was _dead_. > > Well, to his due, he’s certainly mellowed out since. And I can’t give the man credit enough for his work with getting the Apple-Apple Records arrangements pushed through—I don’t think iTunes would ever have gotten off the ground if they hadn’t been able to launch with the Beatles catalog. I really don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/43 "2010-10-10T00:53:58Z")
He’d be lurking in Cafe Society laffing his arse off. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/44 "2010-10-10T04:54:51Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Late 80’s he became an investment banker and re-worked one of his songs as “Give Greed a Chance”. In the late 90s, he befriended Scott Stapp and re-worked the song again as “Give Creed a Chance.” This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. ---
**Author:** ![carm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@carm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/45 "2010-10-10T16:07:44Z")
Here’s a pretty funny song about this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duTaVhslT-0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duTaVhslT-0) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/46 "2010-10-10T18:50:00Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > He and Bono would have had a field day putting their opinion out about EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD Yeah; I kind of wonder where Bono would be if Lennon hadn’t died. The same way I wonder where DiCaprio would be if River Phoenix hadn’t died. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471/47 "2010-10-11T02:44:09Z")
If John was alive today, I do believe he would be a popular pick in the Death Pool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-is-70-whats-he-doing-now/556471.md?page=2)