Radio review: Great Lives, John Lennon

Awareness of Lennon's flaws did not weaken John Harris's admiration of himJohn Harris, arguing for John Lennon in Great Lives (Radio 4), remembered the first time he encountered The Beatles. He was five, and a babysitter put Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club on ("to shut me up"). Harris sat there, entranced, for 20 minutes. "That was when I first understood," he recalled, "that pop music was this huge, fascinating and enticing universe."A lively on-air discussion ensued, with Harris volunteer...

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