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John Lennon released the song Imagine in May of 1971.

I was born less than six months later in that same year, the third child of a couple hippies who had no business having kids. But they had truth – and so did John.

He had love and truth and he was the BEATLES, same as Mick Jagger is The Rolling Stones and Shane MacGowan is The Pogues. In an alternate universe they would be seen as Joyce, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Hemingway – the beacons of truth through the dark and dimly-lit tunnel of sociological change and evolution.

IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) – John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD

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Instead, Lennon was feared by parents for being a “rock-n-roll” musician, for playing “black” music. Imagine that. Wow.

“People have always been trying to stamp out rock ‘n’ roll since it started, I always thought that it’s because it came from black music and the words had a lot of double entendre in the early days. It was all this ‘our nice white kids are gonna go crazy moving their bodies’, y’now the music got to your body and The Beatles just carried it a bit further, made it a bit more white, even more than Elvis did because we were English.” – John Lennon.

We miss you, John, and thank you for inspiring people to learn to love truth and for honoring the invention of our African American brothers and sisters. You stayed true. You will be missed.

WORKING CLASS HERO. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (official music video HD)

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Below I lay some flowers at your grave – the track my brother Joey wrote – inspired in large part by your style and sound, your truth.

Joey was part of a Dublin band that charted in the UK, trying to model your mojo. He wrote this song when he got back to the States, but continues to busk in front of the Dakota with his band mate, Nigel Williams, on the date of your birth – whenever possible.

You are missed and remembered, John. Slainte.

by Kevin Fortuna