Talking about the John Lennon song Imagine in fairly unflattering terms.
“Even so, it must have had an edge to it when Lennon performed it as a benefit for the relatives of inmates killed by police after the Attica State Prison riot in 1971. It was BBC policy, nearly 20 years later, to keep it off the air for the duration of the Gulf War.”
John Lennon, Jeremy Harding, New York Review of Books, Volume 23, Number 1, 4th of January 2001. (reprinted in the LRB diary, Week 41, October, 2026)