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Commentary: Even after 50 years, ex-Beatle Lennon still stirs the soul


Commentary: Even after 50 years, ex-Beatle Lennon still stirs the soul
Robert Seltzer, For the Express-News
May 15, 2021
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It was a therapy session set to music raw, naked and bitter.
“Plastic Ono Band,” the first solo effort by an ex-Beatle, was painful to hear, the laments of a tortured man expressing his fear, rage and loneliness through the only outlet at his command his art.
Robert Hilburn, the rock critic for the Los Angeles Times, called it a masterpiece.
“It is full of ache and sorrow,” he wrote.
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Op-Ed: How John Coltrane has sustained me during the pandemic


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Lately I’ve been thinking about art that is sacred, but not religious. Art that sustains us in hard times, but doesn’t tell us what to think. Years ago, in Houston’s Rothko Chapel, I had my first experience with that kind of art. Giant, dark, undulating with the natural light of that nondenominational space, Rothko’s paintings served as a connection point for me during a difficult time.
“Difficult time” has now been redefined.
We are over a year into a global pandemic that became real for America last March. For some more than others, but in a broader sense for all Americans, there is nothing left that the coronavirus hasn’t touched. More than anything, when I think back to last March, I remember this persistent longing to tell my young kids, ....

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