"Above us only sky ..."
Like the Google Doodle us promptly recalled already from yesterday, today would have been the 70th birthday of a certain Sir John Lennon. Guitarist, composer and voice of the Beatles on the one hand, active pacifist hippie dal'altro, Mr. John has always linked the two issues: we can say that he could afford to speak, if only because he had much of a crowded fan following. Not that his activism has not created problems was not well regarded by the authorities, especially those in the U.S., who several times refused citizenship.
The fact funny, in a sense (a macabre sense of course) is that the one who thought it well to muzzle John once and for all, was not a sniper hired by some organization that regarded him as a hippie inconvenient and cumbersome, but one of its own fans. Mark Chapman, ex-mentally ill and toxic, was a disappointed fan who claimed to be obsessed with Lennon, who, he said, had betrayed his ideals: for this, December 8, 1980, thought it well to visit him at his home in New York in the company of a gun.
Before you shoot 5 shots, it seems that said " Hey, Mr. Lennon! Is about to make history!" (as if it were not already ...). In the story there is certainly came too, for probably half the life of one of the most famous and charismatic musicians of history.
reflected that John had 40 years when he was killed ... they were just damn for a man who, in all probability, in 2010 it was found again to sing and play and talk.
musicians (and artists in general) seem to be in good proportion, short-lived: after discovering that Hendrix died at 28 years, reminded myself that Lennon has left me at 40 creates a degree of irritation. It irritates me to think anything else could have done had it not been for their excesses or the excesses of others.
suppose however, that there is a price to pay for the world to celebrate still fondly on your birthday 30 years after your death ...
