Happy birthday John Lennon
By Who is 68 today in minus space time or plus soul time.
Random thoughts:
(1) Lennon’s murder may have had more emotional impact on me than any other public event (I was 21 at the time Lennon was killed so I’m just barely old enough to remember the assassinations of King and RFK, but for an eight-year-old those were abstract events in faraway places. Lennon’s death took place at home as it were).
(2) Lennon was both a strikingly unique person and one of the characteristic figures of his time.
(3) I wonder if the financial pressure for a Beatles reunion would have built up to the point where it would have been irresistable? Leaving aside personally materialistic considerations, if somebody offers you a billion dollars or whatever I suppose you’re almost ethically obliged to take it from them, so you can do some good things with it.
(4) Five favorite Lennon songs at this moment:
Don’t Let Me Down
Rain
Yer Blues
Dear Prudence
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