Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organize time and myth with music; we mark our lives by it. The death by assassination of John Lennon was an event that mingled music and myth and completed the relationship between the two. Music, as the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once said, "unites the contrary attributes of being both intelligible and untranslatable...
...that may be the jape's major flaw. Even regular readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko...
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War (Columbia). He is still rock's supreme balladeer, and Here Today is the simplest and best memorial to John Lennon anyone has written...
...COURSE, the work, like any of its genre, offers bits of information and anecdotes throughout--like the key role Storm Thurmond played in trying to deny Lennon a green card. Or the organizational chaos that plagued the ill-fated Toronto Peace Festival, and what went on behind the scenes during Beatles recording sessions...
...ultimately, what makes The Battle of John and Yoko so appealing is the detailed portrait it paints of one of the most celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon...