Lennon's Birth Day

Sixty-seven (sixty-seven?) years ago, as the Battle of Britain began to fizzle out.

Lennon's been gone a very long time now - twenty-seven years this December. Far longer than he was a living presence in our lives. It seems odd, maybe because he was such a large and vivid presence while he was alive.

I'm at least old enough to remember that - the five years of the Beatles, the five erratic years afterwards, and then the five years of silence. But always a living presence - you always wondered what he thought about what was going on, what he might do or say next, what he had planned. No one like him today.

Hell, no one like him then.