The little child inside the man

Today was John Lennon's birthday. Gold 90.5 has been paying tribute to Lennon today, and there is also Neil Humphreys' article in TODAY.

Am not really a Beatles or Lennon fan but I do like some of the songs. I remember my piano teacher said that pop music was like what the Beatles wrote and sang -- repetitive catchy tunes and repetitive and not necessarily meaningful words, like 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!' Nothing like what Beethoven or Haydn would have written was what she meant, that it took considerably less musical skill to write pop music. Ah well, different musical eras, different audiences, different perspectives, I think.

A couple of my Lennon favourites:

Woman, which has pretty cheesey lyrics but I still like it.

Woman, I know you understand
The little child inside the man...

And, of course, Imagine, which puts Lennon right up there as one of the greats of the 20th century.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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