John Lennon's birthday was October 9, 1940.
All four of the Beatles were talented musicians—I don't know enough about the matter to tell you about their musicianship in greater detail—but I think Paul might have been the greater performer, and John might have been the more gifted from a literary point of view.
Once John meet Yoko Ono (whom he married), she introduced him to so much thinking, there wasn't room in his head for much more that Feminism, Liberalism, Pacifism, social commentary, and Social engagement, generally. Of course, the popular media lumped all that together into Socialist Politics, and blamed Yoko for putting all that in his head.
But now, many of us think like John Lennon; and MAGA hates it, and labels us Woke, but it just means that we're very aware of how Big Business and conservative politicians manipulate everything to get money out of the hands of ordinary people, and into their (businessmen's) own pockets. And in the past, men have made sure that they controlled the family money. That's still the way it is among conservatives. The women are kept busy being responsible for the kids (and shooting dogs), while the guys handle the money.
John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980; the shooter is still alive, but in prison. But I'm glad John Lennon was alive, even for 40 short years. He greatly influenced how I view society. He was ahead of his time; we have to thank Yoko Ono.
Kay Hemlock Brown
