HISTORIAN: BEATLES, STONES WERE FAT CATS, NOT REVOLUTIONARIES "Pop culture icons John Lennon and Mick Jagger were clever capitalists who cashed in on the mood of the 1960s, not spokesmen for a generation seeking revolution, a British academic said Thursday. Cambridge University historian David Fowler said that so-called 'Swinging London' was in fact beyond most normal people, 'less a golden age for the nation's young than a celebration of wealth by its social elite. Groups like The Beatles were basically capitalists interested in enriching themselves through the music industry. They did about as much to represent the interests of the nation's young people as The Spice Girls did in the 1990s.'"

We love Joel McHale for many reasons, one of them being his obsession with Spaghetti Cat. On last night's The Soup, he premiered a new movie trailer featuring our beloved feline alongside Joel's dog, Lou. It was, in a word, glorious.

Celebrity photographer Anne Leibovitz, who's convinced everyone from John Lennon to Miley Cyrus to get naked for her camera, is allegedly as greedy as she is increasingly trite. To wit:

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Now, usually we love multimedia art and progressive politics, but leave it up to increasingly annoying legend Madonna to combine the two in such a ham-handed, pointy-breasted way that it makes us shake our heads, sigh and reconsider our views on censorship.

Madonna, who turned 50 this month, kicked off her Sticky & Sweet Tour on Saturday night at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The BBC reported that the two-hour show took a political turn when, in a lead-in to a remixed version of “Like a Prayer,” a video sequence showed flashing images of destruction followed by pictures of Hitler, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and then Senator John McCain.

Later, footage of Barack Obama was interspersed among images of Gandhi and John Lennon.

Seeing Jessica Simpson prancing around in that "Real Girls Eat Meat" shirt made me temporarily go vegetarian just to spite her, but now that Corey Feldman has disgraced the John Lennon photo above in the name of PETA, I'll give Jess a pass.

Professional rapper Nas says he's thankful Yoko Ono broke up The Beatles, thereby allowing his hero John Lennon to thrive as a solo artist. According to Nas, without Yoko giving him the strength to drop his wack crew, Lennon might never have gone on to pen canonical works like "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance."

As usual, Nasty Nas is right. Eff The Beatles and the way everyone loves them because their parents have told them to. John Lennon carried that band and Paul McCartney is an old relic who's lost his luster. All hail the egomaniacal Yoko!

After the jump, John and Yoko's notorious "n-word" tune, a song the MC behind Nigger can no doubt appreciate.

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Because she knows she's nothing but an urban Wiccan without the memory of her dead husband to give her street cred, Yoko Ono has again reminded the world that she used to be married to John Lennon, the best Beatle. This time it's to stand up for vegan maniac Heather Mills, the woman recently awarded $50 million in her divorce from Paul McCartney.

… Ono, who is 75, said: "All I can say is it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

"I think all the wives did suffer, and I think quietly suffer. Suffer but endured, I would actually say."

She [said] that Heather needed to "do her very best and try to survive".

Everyone, please, bow your heads now and pray that Heather Mills finds a way to "survive" with that paltry 50 million fucking dollars. And also pray that Yoko finally gets her wish to live on Jupiter with space frogs.

"A well done, well acted wasteful drag of a movie," says one IMDB review of Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto's new film Chapter 27, which focuses on the final days before Mark David Chapman (Leto) murdered John Lennon. So not dismal reviews, a recent development for both the slipping Lohan and the annoying Leto. Now, do you think Jordan Catalano's 67-pound weight gain to play the psycho killer cooled the romance between he and Lindsay while on set?

Fun fact: The actor playing John Lennon in the film is named Mark Lindsay Chapman. Weird!

• Dane Cook as John Lennon. That's apt. [BWE]

• It's Juneteenth today. Time to celebrate the freed slaves! This year, the government's finally coming through with those 40 acres and a mule. Just kidding. Fuck you, descendants! [SH]

• No more doofus hats on grup parents who hate growing old. [ICYDK]

• Maria Menounos is still second-rate Minnillo. [HT]

• These are not the ribald gents who wanted nothing more than girls, girls, girls. These are but sniveling schoolchildren. Away with the motley fools. [Yeeeah]

• Lipo-speculation. [CityRag]