Here’s one idea. With your blessings, we’re going to shift our usual MO, that of travel, and, instead, more to time travel. This post diverts into a part of history that is, actually, a truly important component: music. It’s not very often that true geniuses appear in our lifetime.
And, as in so many instances, they leave us before their time. Mathematicians like Évariste Galois and Srinivasa Ramanujan, scientists like Henry Moseley, and musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain all passed away before their 40s, never to return.
Some of us may have still been alive while we shared the same planet with them. And, in this post, the subject is John Lennon, who died December 8, 1980, after being assassinated by Mark David Chapman, in New York City. The event still pains us, to this day.
But, before John left us, he – perhaps even accidently – completely turned the mode and method of recording music upside down. What’s fascinating is that so many true music fans may not know his biggest contribution, and that is the simple act of throwing away much of the standard recording processes of the day and thinking laterally, in only less than one full decade, from 1960 to 1970. Nowadays, it’s just push a button and “music” comes out. Watch the video, above, courtesy of David Hartley on YouTube. Mindblowing.
One thing to remember, Paul and Ringo are still on the scene, on television and even live. Don’t miss them. Finally, we’ll leave you with this free and easy tours around London where The Beatles were known to have frequented. See below. Perhaps we’ll run into each other.
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