In the normal course of events, the journey from scouse to secular saint ought to take a lot longer than the 40 years in which John Lennon managed it, beginning on this day in 1940. But then, Lennon was an exceptional man: not merely sensitively attuned to suffering, but capable of lyrical genius in service of relieving that suffering, and possessed of just enough faults so as not to make him insufferable.
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