In 1967, Paul McCartney asked if he would still be needed when he was 64. At that time he was not quite 25 years old. On June 18, he will turn 80, something that is difficult to believe because he looks at least twenty years younger. Married and widowed, married and divorced, married again, the […]
John Lennon would have been eighty this month, a theme many news outlets have taken up. Incredibly, it is nearly forty years since he was gunned down on a New York street by a deranged “fan”. Most people alive today were not born then, and even fewer of us are old enough to remember Beatlemania, the phenomenon that rocked especially the Western world even more dramatically than rock ’n’ roll a decade earlier.
