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"as a musician in his own right." Why not "in his own write"?  ;-) --KQ

Nice; I hadn't thought of that... sjc

Should it be noted that one of his songs (Imagine) has been forbiden in the USA?

Well, this is completely misleading. It seems that one company has decided not to play a certain number of songs. That doesn't mean that "Imagine" has been forbidden in the U.S. It was played very prominently as part of a free televised concert a few weeks after 9/11, for instance. The government of the U.S. hasn't banned anything; only private corporations. --LMS

Yes, I suppose so, with all qualifications about what percentage of radio stations, or at least the stations owned by which corporation; also don't forget Cat Stevens' "Peace Train." --KQ

This from Michael Moore's newsletter (yes, I'm on it).  :-D

  • Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200 stations altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio markets -- and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls 60% of all rock-radio listening.
  • The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150 songs during this "national emergency." The list, incredibly, includes "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine." Rah-rah war songs, though, are OK.
  • And then there was this troubling instruction: "No songs by Rage Against the Machine should be aired." The entire works of a band are banned? Is this the freedom we fight for? Or does this sound like one of those repressive dictatorships we are told is our new enemy?

I agree with the anonymous editor who said Lennon's killer doesn't deserve publicity, but I also think that the name is a bit of reasonably important pop trivia, of the sort that really should be in an encyclopedia article about Lennon. --LMS

I thought Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono said that. In any case, I'm putting it in. The truth ought to be known. --Gaurav

That is not a flattering picture of Lennon.

I dunno. i enjoyed sticking it on me bedroom wall when it came as a freeebie with the white album in '68 and all me mates had it on their bedroom wall as well! Tastes are two a penny you pays yer money and you takes yer choice. The Norwikian