I would love to have seen what kind of collaborations he would have had if he hadn’t died. Especially with his old friend Harry Nilsson, they recorded an alcohol and drug fueld album, but it wasn’t very good and Harry damaged his voice. After they got clean and sober, it would have been a kick to see them back together. I don’t care about his politics, that was his business, but I sure did love the music.
“I don’t care about his politics, that was his business,”
Well, the problem was he did not keep it “his business” but went around deconstructing traditionalism till his dying day. This is what all those “artists”from the sixties were trying to do. The French started deconstructionism in literature and art, and the rock musicians just copied the intent in their lifestyles. Nothing is “just” anything; there are always reactions to actions. Lennon,whose music I did not like, was an arrogant rock star who thought he could make the world into his own image by sitting around naked in public with his strange wife. I am not sure how directly he influences society today, I would not give him that much credit, but his kind of leftist intellectualism is what we are dealing with in government this very minute.