Wikipedia: John Lennon/Talk

"as a musician in his own right." Why not "in his own write"? ;-) --KQ

Nice; I hadn't thought of that... sjc

Should it be noted that one of his songs (Imagine) has been forbiden in the USA?

: Well, this is completely misleading. It seems that one company has decided not to play a certain number of songs. That doesn't mean that "Imagine" has been forbidden in the U.S. It was played very prominently as part of a free televised concert a few weeks after 9/11, for instance. The government of the U.S. hasn't banned anything; only private corporations. --LMS

Yes, I suppose so, with all qualifications about what percentage of radio stations, or at least the stations owned by which corporation; also don't forget Cat Stevens' "Peace Train." --KQ

This from [Michael Moore]?'s newsletter (yes, I'm on it). :-D

Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200 stations altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio markets -- and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls 60% of all rock-radio listening.
The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150 songs during this "national emergency." The list, incredibly, includes "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine." Rah-rah war songs, though, are OK.
And then there was this troubling instruction: "No songs by Rage Against the Machine should be aired." The entire works of a band are banned? Is this the freedom we fight for? Or does this sound like one of those repressive dictatorships we are told is our new enemy?

I agree with the anonymous editor who said Lennon's killer doesn't deserve publicity, but I also think that the name is a bit of reasonably important pop trivia, of the sort that really should be in an encyclopedia article about Lennon. --LMS