Gimme Some Truth
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Hard Rock International Announces IMAGINE THERE'S NO HUNGER Campaign to Raise Awareness and Funding for WHY in its Fight Against Hunger and Poverty...a live track of "Lay Down" to the SERVE4 digital album, a project dedicated to serving those in need. Following John Lennon's lead track "Gimme Some Truth," donated by Yoko Ono Lennon, SERVE4 will also feature versions of rare, live or... In this article: World Hunger Year, Hard rock, John Lennon, Imagine, Hard Rock International, Yoko Ono Lennon, Gimme Some Truth, Eric Hutchinson, and Brett Dennen |
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Yahoo! News | November 06, 2009
Yoko Ono looks back on early activism (Reuters)
...and Amazon. Rock group O.A.R. is donating a live track of their song "Lay Down" to the digital album, which will also include Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth." It will also feature versions of rare, live or previously unreleased tracks from...
In this article: Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Imagine, Itunes, World Hunger Year, Hard Rock International, Paul H. O'Neill, Live Aid, and Farm Aid
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TVGuide.com | October 21, 2009
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...ago, you're "sick and tired of hearing things from uptight, shortsighted, narrow-minded hypocrites," you're not alone. In this aptly named "Gimme Some Truth" episode, Mark discusses his flash-forward when he's called to testify before the...
In this article: Jeff Dunham, Senate Intelligence Committee, John Lennon, and Brooke Hogan
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Wikipedia | September 19, 2009
It's So Hard
...down"). The song, when taken into context with "Imagine" or some of the other overtly political tracks on the album such as "Gimme Some Truth," could be heard as having political connotations, saying that one must rebel against the...
In this article: Lennon, Imagine, Imagine, Yakety Yak, The Coasters, King Curtis, and U.S.
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Wikipedia | August 18, 2009
Gimme Some Truth
...performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album ''Imagine ''. Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine " ," "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references emerging from the time it was written, during the latter...
In this article: Richard Nixon, Imagine, Dog, 2007 Tour, More Than Us, Country Girl, Angel Interceptor, and Eddie Vedder
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Wikipedia | August 10, 2009
Jon Wiener
...documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm." In January 2000, he published a book titled Gimme Some Truth, The John Lennon FBI Files, referring to the same titled song of Lennon, from the University...
In this article: Jon Wiener, John Lennon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York, Come Together, The Nation, University of California Press, and Random House
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PopMatters | July 20, 2009
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs: Under the Covers Vol. 2 (Review)
...Dominoes ("Bell Bottom Blues"), daring listeners to remove their tongues from their cheeks. And the relentless harmony pronunciations on "Gimme Some Truth" are pretty impressive. But the performances are uneven: Hoffs' impersonation of Rod...
In this article: Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet, Here Comes My Girl, Rod Stewart, Big Star, Bread, Maggie May, Derek and the Dominoes, and All the Young Dudes
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Wikipedia | July 05, 2009
Angel Interceptor
...wind-up toy noises, and consists of lyrics, with blurry vocals, centred around strange sound effects, with synth effects as well. "Gimme Some Truth" is a cover of the electro-pop version of the John Lennon song from his "Imagine " album,...
In this article: Ash, Angel Interceptor, Kung Fu, John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band, DVD, Imagine, and Intergalactic Sonic 7"s
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News & Observer | July 01, 2009
Bill protects music acts from imitators who trade on name
Published: Wed, Jul. 01, 2009 05:33AM Modified Wed, Jul. 01, 2009 05:33AM RALEIGH -- In 1971, John Lennon asked audiences to "Gimme Some Truth." Almost four decades later, another performer -- Bowzer of Sha Na Na fame -- had a similar...
In this article: Sha Na Na, Beverly Perdue, John Lennon, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and North Carolina
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LiveDaily News | April 30, 2009
The Wallflowers return to the road for summer trek
...Dylan collaborated with Dhani Harrison (son of the late Beatles guitarist George Harrison) on a cover of the John Lennon song "Gimme Some Truth" for the Lennon tribute album "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save...
In this article: The Wallflowers, Seeing Things, Jakob Dylan, Rick Rubin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Dhani Harrison, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, and Beatles
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Pitchfork | November 25, 2007
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...B-side) is as good as anything on A Weekend in the City. The only true dud is Travis' seemingly topical (but actually not) cover of "Gimme Some Truth", in which Fran Healy weakly barks his way through one of John Lennon's bitchiest,...
In this article: Waxploitation, Darfur, Shin, Bloc Party, Death Cab for Cutie, Animal Collective, Capitalism, Itunes, and Hunting for Witches
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"Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.
Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine" ," "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references emerging from the time it was written, during the latter years of the Vietnam War.
The song expresses Lennon's frustration with deceptive politicians ("short-haired yellow-bellied sons of Tricky Dicky"), chauvinism ("tight-lipped condescending mommy's little chauvinists"), and acts of military violence such as the My Lai massacre. The song encapsulates the general feeling of the time, when people were heavily participating in protest rallies against the government.
Lennon's dig at US President Richard Nixon, referring to him in the lyrics of the song as "Tricky Dicky," proved to be increasingly relevant after the song's release, when in 1972 the Watergate scandal erupted. "Tricky Dicky" became a popular nickname for Nixon during the Watergate hearings, and came into widespread usage.
The song references the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard," using the rhyme's content (about a woman going to get her dog a bone, only to discover that her cupboard is empty) as a political parallel to the events of the day, a practice that goes all the way back to when the rhyme was originally printed in 1805. The song also alludes to "soft soap," using it as a slang term for liquid soap, likening its slippery qualities to a politician trying to quell public unrest with insincere praise.
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