By Bill Kenny, The Bulletin | Peter Jackson’s three-part re-examination of The Beatles, Get Back, aired on Disney+ this Thanksgiving weekend. It’s hard to believe the events depicted happened 52 years ago, but harder still to realize it was 41 years ago today that John Lennon was murdered. For those of us who came of age when The Beatles first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, we need no reminder,
I was born the year Dwight David Eisenhower was elected US President. Rock and roll was either very rhythm and blues-oriented (and called ‘race music’) or was so white it glowed in the dark with melodies from the Brill Building professionals sung by any fresh face who showed up at the auditions.
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If all you know of John Lennon is what you’ve read/seen, you cannot imagine the electricity late-night American Top 40 radio had when The Beatles were on. The Liverpool lads stuck and stayed because they had talent and the ear of a generation who sought a voice while they, themselves, searched for the sound they had heard years earlier. They may have never realized they had become the object for which they searched-we on other hand never cared and embraced them as the Soundtrack of the World to Be.
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Where there were four, only two are alive today. All of them spent, and continue to spend, their solo careers battling unreal expectations, measured by critics and fans alike against an impossible standard no one could match.
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With Lennon’s murder forty-one years ago, the death of the public John overshadowed the personal tragedy of his two sons, Julian, and Sean, as well as the pain and grief his wife, Yoko Ono, and his late first spouse, Cynthia, felt and feel every day of their lives, but most especially today.
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Read the whole story here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cityside-longer-gone-lived-remembering-100046403.html
Bill Kenny, of Norwich, writes a weekly column about Norwich issues. His blog, Tilting at Windmills, can be accessed at NorwichBulletin.com.
This article originally appeared on The Bulletin: Cityside: Longer gone than lived. Remembering John Lennon.
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Cityside: Longer Gone Than Lived. Remembering John Lennon // Give the Gift of Drum Lessons with Ringo — MasterClass is Having an Amazing Sale
