"I was born almost 20 years after Lennon, and I discovered The Beatles quite a while after Beatlemania. Still, like my own children, who came to The Beatles more than a decade after Lennon's death, I derived from John's Beatles songs a sense that adulthood was neither an ideal of lovey-dovey bliss or a joke (the dual message of Paul's tunes), but something complicated and forbidding but within my capacity to grasp and maybe even bear."
David Hadju in The New Republic writes a tribute to John Lennon for what would have been Lennon's seventieth birthday.
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