The song’s chances aren’t helped by the video the group released with the song’s lyrics, which only serves to emphasize how hard the lyrics work at being topical (or “relevant,” as someone might have said around the time of “Street Fighting Man”), with their references to zombies and fracking. And will the group’s 60th-anniversary greatest-hits collection include the now-new “Doom and Gloom”? I’m guessing not. Will that album include any of the four then-new songs from the group’s 40th-anniversary greatest-hits collection? Yes, shockingly, it will. YOKO ONO LENNON DOES NOT, WILL NOT, HAS NOT DYED HER HAIR, SHE DOES NOT SWEAT (MOST ORIENTALS DO NOT SWEAT LIKE US) – WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE FOR TURNING MY BRAND NEW WHITE SHIRT YELLOW?Īnd in news about technically still-existent bands: The Rolling Stones, who are this year celebrating their 50th anniversary, have released a new song, which will be included on an upcoming greatest-hits collection. On page six of the card he writes: “I love you so don’t leave me I love you so don’t leave me leave don’t leave me I love you Cynthia. Under the heading OUR FIRST XMAS!, he drew the two of them standing close, heads together, his hand laid gently on her arm, he in long sideburns and pegged pants, she in a checked miniskirt, looking very much like a potential first couple of not-yet-swinging London. I was particularly moved by a painfully sweet, eight-page Christmas card Lennon sent to his girlfriend and future first wife, Cynthia Powell, in 1958, when he was 18.
Many of the entries here are perfunctory at best you won’t, for instance, find a long, detailed account of the writing and recording of “A Day in the Life,” sent to his Aunt Mimi back in Liverpool.īut amid the quotidian leavings of rock stardom (a set list, form letters to fan-club members, shopping lists for the personal assistant: “Electric clock. Lennon wasn’t much of a letter writer, it turns out he was more of a jotter and list-maker, a sender of terse, wish-you-were-here style postcards.
Hunter has done a sensitive and scrupulous job collecting and annotating Lennon’s letters, and the book is beautifully designed-but this is a hard-core fan’s purchase, more given to ephemera than revelation. Following the recent publications of not entirely (or at all) satisfying memoirs by Pete Townsend and Neil Young, Little Brown has just published The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies, who knew Lennon and the rest of the Beatles and wrote the first serious biography of the band, the authorized The Beatles, back in 1968. Just because John Lennon has been dead for three decades doesn’t mean he can’t compete with his peers in the war for baby boomers’ Christmas dollars, book division. It’s Classic Rock Friday here at WZVF, the Fair! (Cue: “I’m Just Working for the Weekend.”) Stay tuned for AC/DC Afternoon, and Drivetime with the Doors.
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