Word: pained
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...London headquarters listening to Lennon speak with bitterness about the breakup of the Beatles. Says he: "John was thinner than the last time I had seen him and his appearance gave an extra intensity to the harshness of what he was saying. He was understandably preoccupied with pain and frustration, but there was also a great deal of determination and optimism...
...Over), which he recorded with Ono in 1972-kept the standard high and his conscience fine-tuned. The political songs were all personal, the intimate songs all singular in their fierce insistence on making public all issues of the heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that Lennon fought hard for, then passed along. All his music seemed to be torn from that small, stormy interior where, as Robert Frost once wrote, "work is play for mortal stakes...
...roughly working-class as early Beatles p.r. indicated, nor quite as benign as the magical association of those place names might suggest. But John's adolescence in the suburbs, the garden outside the back door and the warm ministrations of his Auntie Mimi did not diminish either the pain or the sense of separateness that was already stirring...
...Julian often, and said recently, "I don't remember seeing him as a child." But Lennon suggested that he had lately wanted to know Julian better, and one of the most haunted faces in last week's gallery of grief was Julian's, enduring the same pain that had afflicted his father at almost the same age some 25 years before. He, like John, had lost a parent twice...