Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones also sent a letter to long-time Beatles producer George Martin, but he said members have been reluctant to invite Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow...
Although the BASH officers were too young to remember Lennon's death in 1980 or the band's final concert tour, they said their interest stems from what Jones calls the four friends' "profound love for the Beatles...
...figures exist in shorthand versions, comic or not--that's what being a public figure is all about. For someone like Princess Diana who suffers a dramatic and untimely death, the tragedy becomes our Rorshach response: Diana, the tragically slain princess. Like J.F.K., the tragically slain President. Or John Lennon, the tragically slain Beatle. Or Tupac Shakur, the tragically slain rapper. Their endings, in a sense, become their beginnings, jumping-off points in the popular imagination. This is unfair and terribly reductive, but death is one of the few things even more reductive than pop culture. Together they...
...most extreme danger comes in the form of the sort of lethal nonentity who gunned down John Lennon. Other stalkers are less murderous but more numerous. In fandom, boundaries of individuality break down and enthusiasts come to think they own the celebrity in some way. They behave with a bizarre, intrusive, proprietary aggression, as if the icon had entered their own head (as indeed the icon has) and thereby relinquished all rights of privacy and courtesy and become a plaything of fans' fantasy. Madonna has said that one of the worst things about being famous is that you cannot...
...sudden death of an admired public person always seems an impossibility. People ascribe invulnerability, near immortality to our centers of attention. John Kennedy dies, and it could not happen. John Lennon dies, and it could not happen. Elvis, and Grace Kelly, and shock after shock. And now this death of a young woman by whom the world had remained transfixed from the moment she first appeared before it, whose name contained the shadow of her end: Princess...