Vanity Fair has come up with an interesting – although possibly not entirely successful – new angle on the approaching 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth. "Lennon at 70!" says the "web exclusive" – we don't doubt it – by David Kamp. "As he approaches the big milestone and his highly anticipated reunion dates with the Plastic Ono Band, the irrepressible ex-Beatle talks about cows, survival, and Yoko." That's right. They've interviewed him, from the standpoint that he survived the fatal 1980 shooting and is about to go on tour again. Not only that, he got divorced from Yoko Ono in 1983, the Beatles reunited to perform at Live Aid ("Queen mopped the floor with us") and recorded a 1987 album called, er ... Everest. It was around the time of the Aids-themed Day in the Life re-release – "I read the news today, oh boy/ About a wave of boys who died too soon/ They wove a quilt out of their grief/ It's someone's life you rob/ When you don't sheathe your knob" – that Monkey lost the will to read. Whatever gets you through the night, eh?
