...you became a professional musician because Lennon was an inspiration in your youth? Did you ever listen to any other Beatles music besides "In My Life"?

As you may know, they had more than one hit. In fact, they caused a paradigm shift in music and popular culture.

I wonder if your ambivalence stems from your offended conservative sensibilities of Lennon being a peace loving, dope smoking, liberal hippy activist who once quipped that his band was more popular than Jesus?

By the way, if the record you listened to in the 8th grade was was an album, it was 33 & 1/3rd rpm, a single - 45 rpm. 78 rpm records went out with spats but your naivete' about the olden days of the last century is endearing.