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**medio** · 07-04-2011, 09:59 PM

Elliot Mintz, Lennon's publicist and friend (who, coincidentally doesn't have a book or movie to sell), remembers things very differently.

Digitalspy: http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/...-says-rep.html

Lennon's longtime rep and former confidant Mintz denied Seaman's assertions and insisted to TMZ that the 'Give Peace A Chance' singer never underwent a radical change in political beliefs.

Mintz said: "From the time I met John in 1971, until the end, all of those things he expressed in 'Imagine' were part of his belief system until the last breath of his life. If you listen to the last recorded interviews that were done with John, you'll hear him express in his own words... his own beliefs... which are virtually identical to the beliefs he held in '71."

Mintz went on to say that anyone claiming Lennon turned his back on progressive politics isn't telling the truth and accused Seaman of presenting a "distorted revisionist view of history".

Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has herself contended that her spouse would have remained an advocate for progressive causes if he had survived his 1980 shooting.

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medio Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 543 Senior Member	Elliot Mintz, Lennon's publicist and friend (who, coincidentally doesn't have a book or movie to sell), remembers things very differently. Digitalspy: http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/...-says-rep.html Lennon's longtime rep and former confidant Mintz denied Seaman's assertions and insisted to TMZ that the 'Give Peace A Chance' singer never underwent a radical change in political beliefs. Mintz said: "From the time I met John in 1971, until the end, all of those things he expressed in 'Imagine' were part of his belief system until the last breath of his life. If you listen to the last recorded interviews that were done with John, you'll hear him express in his own words... his own beliefs... which are virtually identical to the beliefs he held in '71." Mintz went on to say that anyone claiming Lennon turned his back on progressive politics isn't telling the truth and accused Seaman of presenting a "distorted revisionist view of history". Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has herself contended that her spouse would have remained an advocate for progressive causes if he had survived his 1980 shooting.
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