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| | John Lennon's strange sort of immortality, now 25 years long (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Lennon, of the Beatles era and beyond, was that and something more, an artist who seemed to both describe and drive experience, to anticipate as well as celebrate, whether it was puppy love, politics, drugs, marriage, dissatisfaction, parenthood, despair, contentment or the conundrum of celebrity he addressed. |
 | | Lennon laid the foundation for everything from Madonna's art of perpetual self-creation to Michael Jackson's public spectacle of self-destruction to Bono's purposeful political activism. |
 | | Lennon is everywhere and nowhere, a maker of infinitely adaptable anthems ("Imagine," "All You Need Is Love," "Give Peace a Chance,") that seem almost creatorless and a complex, faceted, self-scrutinizing artist who died too young. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/08/DDG9QG409R1.DTL (1140 words) |
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