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Would Lennon have deserved a Nobel prize? | Comment – The Times
For many of us of a certain age, the moment on December 8, 1980, when we heard that John Lennon had been shot dead was almost as shattering as the moment we hea…
For many of us of a certain age, the moment on December 8, 1980, when we heard that John Lennon had been shot dead was almost as shattering as the moment we heard about the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. For some, even more so.
Lennon was a symbol, if not the symbol, of the Sixties, the decade of peace and love. And the obsession of the baby boomer generation with that hedonistic decade goes on. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, eh?
But if we tend to romanticise the past, may…
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