-L. wrote:
> I had just graduated from High School. I was home smoking pot and
> couldn't believe it - it was all so convoluted and ****ed up. It still
> makes me sad. I wonder what sort of world we would live in now had he
> not died. He was a peace activist before anyone knew what that meant.

Oh, come on. He was a peace activist, and an influential one. But out
in the world apart from rock music the peace movement was already very
well established before he joined it. His great album "Imagine" came
out in 1971. -aem