As everyone in the world must know by now, John Lennon would have turned 70 today had he not been gunned down in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. It would be easy to bemoan all the lost music he never had the chance to write, but the fact remains that his influence will forever be heard in each new generation of artists.
There's no point in trying to demonstrate Lennon's lineage in just three songs. So here, simply, are a song from The Beatles' Rubber Soul, from Lennon's Walls and Bridges, and a convincingly Lennonesque chart from Philadelphia's neo-psychedelic Dr. Dog.
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