It’s forty years now since they killed John Lennon, which is how old Lennon was when he died. When I was a kid, John Lennon was the major absence in popular culture, just as Marilyn Monroe or Jimmy Hendrix had been before that, but this time the size of it was unheard of. We lived in
a baby boomers’age in which
the Beatles had been everything, a world forged in a melting pot of the sixties and its myths. To say Kurt Cobain, not to mention Ian Curtis or Amy Winehouse, doesn’t even come close. The baby boomers still took themselves seriously and they had real myths.