pan & Baraka: That's really interesting... I'd always thought about how his assassination took something from us. I'd never considered what it may have given us. By raising Lennon's profile, his message--whatever it was, at that point, largely an ex post facto construct I imagine--was able to take a global stage.
I was six years old when he died. I have no memory of it, and at the time had no exposure to John's solo work, but I sure knew the Beatles. I'd sit in the corner by the stereo with Dad's enormous studio headphones on listening to Sargent Pepper's over and over and over again. It was my favorite album by the time I had the manual dexterity to work the record player. Listening to that album as an adult is a bit surreal (well... even more surreal than the album is designed to be, let's say) because of that added piece of history. There's not a tune on that album that couldn't be a children's song, if you don't understand what the lyrics are saying.
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