{"id":2923,"date":"2011-03-02T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:47:29","slug":"fancy-yourself-as-a-bit-of-a-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/03\/fancy-yourself-as-a-bit-of-a-john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy yourself as a bit of a John Lennon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2924\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/neil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2924\" title=\"neil\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/neil-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/neil-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/neil.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Harrison the previous John Lennon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manufactured bands are one thing, iconic world changing bands another\u00a0and what about ye old tribute bands? Love them or hate them? I love them.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly\u00a0because generally\u00a0their names are highly amusing which mean infers the guys in the band will be a darn good larf and having had the joy of seeing quite a few of them over the years ebcuase theylove their subject and know the material inside and out, \u00a0they are damn\u00a0good.<\/p>\n<p>So the point of this post? Well the <a href=\"http:\/\/thebootlegbeatles.com\">Bootleg Beatles<\/a> are looking for a new John Lennon. Well the world is looking for a new John Lennon so maybe I should phrase that differently. The Bootleg Beatles are looking for someone to be John Lennon in their band. There.<\/p>\n<p>But check him out &#8211; the last guy\u00a0Neil Harrison, \u00a0he looks just like yer man John Lennon. So&#8230;.do you?<\/p>\n<p>To hell with what your pals think if you have always harboured a fantasy of being the geezer on the stage walloping out a great song to an enthusiasitc crowd then go for it. I would.<\/p>\n<p>Some other ones you might like to check out.<\/p>\n<p>Simple Minded.<\/p>\n<p>Bjorn Again &#8211; Abba obviously<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufactured bands are one thing, iconic world changing bands another\u00a0and what about ye old tribute bands? Love them or hate them? I love them. Firstly\u00a0because&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,83,1161,77,1],"tags":[1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}