JOHN LENNON … WHY WE CARE
Over three and a half decades after his passing … and still we pause on 9 October, celebrating the life of John Lennon, looking back not with misty-eyed nostalgia but with clear-headed vision that embraces both his many strengths and his many weaknesses. John Lennon was no saint … that’s for sure. He never – not even as a teen – suffered fools lightly, and when the press (in 1963-66) asked him ridiculous questions such as, “What do you do with all that hair while you sleep?” he, often as not,
