John Lennon 75th 'Birthday'
John Lennon 75th 'Birthday',John Lennon would accept been 75 years old on Friday. It's a altogether that can't advice but accomplish you wonder. John Lennon, chief citizen?
What would he accomplish of our time? Would he accept reveled in electronica and hip-hop the aforementioned way he animated in the B-52s? Would he accept abutting the Beatles "Anthology" activity -- 20 years ago! -- or absolved it as "garbage"?
Would he and the added Beatles accept played calm again? What about his sons, Julian and Sean? Or his politics? Who would John Lennon be now?
So abounding questions -- and so abounding canicule that never were. Inescapably, two months from now, on December 8, we'll admire the 35th ceremony of his death. Lennon has been asleep about as continued as he was alive. An absolute bearing has delayed back then.
But let's leave the abjure aside. This is a birthday: a time for celebration.John Lennon larboard affluence to celebrate: his songs, of course, from "A Hard Day's Night" to "Strawberry Fields Forever" to the joyful, post-Beatles comfort of "Double Fantasy." There's aswell the brooding of his interviews, the arcane wit of such books as "In His Own Write" and a array of artworks.
The closing are accepting a belated moment in a traveling display that will cover stops this ages in New York, Denver, Toronto and San Francisco.
His widow, Yoko Ono, thinks her backward bedmate would accept remained absolutely the Renaissance man, as cogent on Twitter as he was babbling on "Dick Cavett."
"It's as if (social media) were fabricated for John," Ono told the Newport Beach (California) Daily Pilot in March. "Oh, he would be on a computer all day and night."
Just imagine.
And with John Lennon, what bigger way to celebrate?
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