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Ron Nasty said
I can see what they’re doing. Would have been John’s 80th birthday year but, instead, it’s the 40th anniversary of his death — the year when John’s been dead longer than he was alive. It’s bound to throw up more media attention latter end of the year than usual. What do you do if you’re the Lennon Estate? You throw together a new “best of” and hope for a bunch of sales of the same old stuff for nostalgia’s sake.

I guess I see what they’re doing, but it seems a bit unnecessary. This is like the third greatest hits album released in the past decade. I think he may have more greatest hits albums than he has studio albums at this point. They could have done something more fun like remaster Plastic Ono Band or his Anthology which can only be found second hand now. 

Timothy said
Yes. His creative output shines so bright, and his creative output is what it is. We can’t have any more than what we have. It’s one of history’s most cruellest scars, but his death is kind of like how The Beatles disbanded. It can’t help but make the subject matter even more legendary. Hard to believe he’s been gone that long when you listen to his interviews, particularly the 1980 stuff where he’s so warm and full of life.

An innocent person being murdered by some random guy with psychosis is not even remotely the same as a group of adults deciding they no longer want to play music together. Also, saying that us missing out on all the music he didn’t make is “one of history’s most cruelest scars” is really bad taste. He was murdered. His children lost their father. His wife lost her other half. He was a human being, not a music making object. Even if he had no intentions of continuing to make music, his death would be just as tragic.

meanmistermustard said

Little Piggy Dragonguy said

Ron Nasty said

I can see what they’re doing. Would have been John’s 80th birthday year but, instead, it’s the 40th anniversary of his death — the year when John’s been dead longer than he was alive. It’s bound to throw up more media attention latter end of the year than usual. What do you do if you’re the Lennon Estate? You throw together a new “best of” and hope for a bunch of sales of the same old stuff for nostalgia’s sake.

I guess I see what they’re doing, but it seems a bit unnecessary. This is like the third greatest hits album released in the past decade. I think he may have more greatest hits albums than he has studio albums at this point. They could have done something more fun like remaster Plastic Ono Band or his Anthology which can only be found second hand now. 

Timothy said

Yes. His creative output shines so bright, and his creative output is what it is. We can’t have any more than what we have. It’s one of history’s most cruellest scars, but his death is kind of like how The Beatles disbanded. It can’t help but make the subject matter even more legendary. Hard to believe he’s been gone that long when you listen to his interviews, particularly the 1980 stuff where he’s so warm and full of life.

An innocent person being murdered by some random guy with psychosis is not even remotely the same as a group of adults deciding they no longer want to play music together. Also, saying that us missing out on all the music he didn’t make is “one of history’s most cruelest scars” is really bad taste. He was murdered. His children lost their father. His wife lost her other half. He was a human being, not a music making object. Even if he had no intentions of continuing to make music, his death would be just as tragic.

I do agree but there was the addition that the fans pretty much lost John for five years when he stopped to bring up Sean and were only just getting him back when he was killed. The timing in regards to John’s music and fan re-connection was therefore much worse for many. Does it make it worse overall? Not for many of us now and certainly not looking at it all now – John was a ultimately a father and husband and an ordinary man living his life happily and looking forward to the future – but certainly reading the accounts back then this was certainly a more wretched killing and loss. 

I hope that makes sense and doesn’t come across as crude or taking away in any way what Yoko, Sean and Julian have had to live with then and ever since.

No, that definitely does make a lot of sense and I’ve never thought about it like that. 

The Jonas Brothers got back together when I was in high school and were supposed to release a new album and have a tour, but ended up not releasing the album and cancelling the tour. It was definitely like “mourning” them a second time after them being disbanded for so long. Very tragic for me at the time, and they didn’t even die.