[Billthedrill]

I was watching MNF that evening. The Beatles music delighted me and still does, and John was a pop genius, but he ended up being adopted by, and trying to fit in with, a group of third-rate New York intellectuals who were chic, trendy, and ridiculously superficial, and still are.

His murderer was trying to gain celebrity by killing it, and Harrison never spoke his name publicly, an action that I think appropriate enough to emulate. Lennon was, as are a number of young people, angry because the world wasn't as perfect as he thought it ought to be, and he did not grow old enough to realize why. I do not know, given the company he chose to keep, if he ever would have, but he was cheated of the chance by a sniveling, insignificant creep who deserves to die in oblivion and will.

[SamAdams76]

His murderer was trying to gain celebrity by killing it, and Harrison never spoke his name publicly, an action that I think appropriate enough to emulate.

An action that I agree with also. I too have never mentioned the name of Lennon's murderer, neither have I ever mentioned the name of the dirtbag who took a shot at President Reagan a few months later.

I agree that pop stars and other entertainers tend to get taken in by the third-rate intellectual crowd that you speak of. Sadly, only a few ever break free of that influence, due largely in part that highly paid entertainers tend to isolate themselves in a bubble and they lose all contact with regular people. Therefore they live in a virtual world that has little resemblance to reality.