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In terms of legendary status, you don’t get much more revered than John Lennon. The frontman of The Beatles, he was the tip of the spear of the ‘British Invasion’, and alongside his songwriting partner, Paul McCartney, he wrote the handbook for what a musician should and could be.

Without his input, popular culture would be a completely different beast from the one it is today. Aside from his songwriting, his guitar playing, singing, studio techniques all enacted radical development. In short, you could write a rather lengthy thesis on how John Lennon impacted the world, as he did it in myriad ways.

Although his personality has often been rightly regarded by revisionists as problematic, particularly his treatment of women in his younger years, one thing that has always endured about Lennon has been his sense of humour. His acerbic wit coloured The Beatles songs, films and media appearances, and as he got older, this was a feature of his character that never wained, and if anything, it became sharper.

Whether it be his take on glam rock to David Bowie, or his infamous quip claiming that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”, Lennon left us with many hilarious anecdotes. One person, who also felt the burn of Lennon’s verbal rapier was The Mothers of Invention mastermind, Mr. ‘Cosmik Debris’, Frank Zappa.

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