My Recollection of John Lennon and the Beatles

Just getting off the phone tonight with my brother whom lives in a different city, and he asked if I remember?
 

I remember the when my brother was somewhere around 23. My brother is older than myself by some years. But my recollection of John or for that matter my starting to understand the Beatles independently was literally the day I went over to visit him at his first apartment.

Here were sitting two very down fans. My brother and one other friend of his named, Francaise. For some reason they were playing songs of the Beatles. Still in high school – but I saw how down they were and I didn’t really understand it. The manner that this had hit them so hard. I did know how big the Beatles were and literally came to know each of there songs by way of my brother. So there we all sat for a while four people just taking it all in. My friend and I didn’t find it as intense however the next day after school I had but more so as time when on and I acquired more of what the Beatles were about. If it hadn’t been for my brother and his seeing them on the Ed Sullivan Show which was before my time, I would probably would have never acquired as much of a taste and understanding of what had happened with John and how it effected so many on that day of his death. This evening after the call, I am sure that my brother is playing songs of John’s and so many are as well.

My friend and I left around 10pm that night as we had school the next morning. What amazes me is since a kid, I was hearing these songs by the very same voices. And my brother would rush home with his new LP, or 45’s and he would talk and talk about what the meaning was that John and Paul were trying to say. That is really my own recollection of how I came to know John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles. Thereafter, the Beatles were far more for me. As well, I have always been thrilled with all four of them. When the split up happened, then they all wrote there own way you could see the splitting of the ying and yang of two whom wrote together as John in one way where as Paul wrote within another. With only two living members of once known as the “Fab Four” you don’t hear much regarding Ringo, but Paul seems to carry on with his own music, while he makes his own. John’s music has not carried on as he just began to write and placed out his first album in years and I remember the first hit called, “Starting Over”. That is my recollection of John Lennon, and it’s amazing to see this rebirth and tribute to one man that started with his own band and then one by one brought with time, a new band of his own at that time in Liverpool called, The Beatles.
There was always a hope that there would be a Beatles revival but I never did. At that time there were some that were doing revivals but I thought that the best thing was that the “Band of Four”, were far better to leave there music and I thought that if they had a revival it would not be as good as the original Beatles as some of know. Yet I remember that very evening that I dropped into my brother apartment, it's hard to imagine that it's 30 years since then.

I recall John was a man that is literally immortalized as a musician, the one that started the Beatles and then the one that didn’t need to make music but after a certain period he did make a short lived come back. Yet his bands music, members and all, and his own music live on.

When I listen to John's music, it's reflective, and it's never was driven to make the charts it was all within John Lennon's own way. He started over but regardless it's never ended...