Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN JOHN LENNON died, it helped mark the end of an era familiar to our older siblings, but the excitement of which we could feel only vicariously through the albums and the stories that were handed down. Certainly when we hoped or exulted, as children of the seventies, we turned to the Beatles. Yet by the time we were teenagers, the Beatles had dissolved in a legal war that hurt their credibility...
...over and championed like talismans that could change lives. It is like a piece of elegant sportswear: slip right into it, shrug it off. Jackson has written and performed ebulliently with Paul McCartney; he often appears in bright band jackets; he has palled around a bit with Sean Ono Lennon and has taken him to a Broadway show. It should be clear from all this that Jackson is smitten not only with the Beatles' legacy but with their mystique. Unlike the Beatles, however, he has a vast audience but a small constituency...
...involvement in Lebanon also a disaster? In answer, Administration officials last week borrowed a line from the late Beatle John Lennon, saying again and again that they had only been trying to "give peace a chance." The U.S. attempt to create a strong, moderate, peaceful government, they said, was meant as a first step toward stability in the Middle East. And if the goal proved out of reach, well, better to fail than not to try. Said Reagan: "I don't know what we could have done differently, and our search was for peace and I think we were...
...Guinness Book of World Records, which certified his Thriller as the biggest solo album ever (25 million copies sold), Jackson, 25, made a quick exit to a small, private reception in the Elephant Room of the museum. There he mingled with such privileged well-wishers as Sean Lennon, Carly Simon and Brooke Shields. Why throw the monster bash at an institution where the furs are usually stuffed? Explained a CBS spokesman: "Michael has a love of nature...
...record opens with a scrappy declaration of Lennonesque independence, I'm Stepping Out, but I Don't Wanna Face It fades down with a clipped cry that sounds like a housebroken werewolf. The second side offers the unwelcome spectacle of Lennon, abject, begging (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess, then following Ono's Let Me Count the Ways with Grow Old with Me. Yoke's album notes explain: "John and I always thought, among many other things, that we were maybe the reincarnation of Robert [Browning] and Liz [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]." Lennon wanted Grow Old with...