It has just occurred to me that had he lived, today would have been John Lennon's 69th birthday. That makes me feel old; God alone knows how it would have made him feel! I wonder if he would still have been recording, or whether he would have given it a few more years after his 1980 comeback and then gone into retirement without becoming the recluse he was between 1976 and early 1980...

9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980
9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980