New books on John Lennon 40 yrs right after his death

Columns share an author’s own viewpoint and are usually centered on facts in the newspaper’s reporting.

And so this is Xmas. And what have we performed?

I mirror on those two uncomplicated traces each individual December. 

It was 40 several years in the past this month that the world misplaced John Lennon.

To mark the anniversary, a slew of new Lennon textbooks ended up released this year.

Lennon died in 1980, right before I was born. Men and women underneath 50 almost certainly don’t recall him alive, nevertheless we all know his songs and his legend.

On this weekend right before Xmas (or xmas) I want to focus on Lennon.

Due to the fact this was a calendar year we desired him — precisely the phrase he experimented with to spread.

The word was Peace.

(War is over if you want it.)

These past 12 months felt like 12 yrs in this state.

And although Lennon was a complex person to say the the very least, there is so a lot we can find out from his music, and the concept he so commonly stood for.