From: James Diedrick
Category: Amis
Date: 7/18/99
Time: 9:37:30 PM
Remote Name: 147.124.99.18
"Like countless others I played the Beatles' records into the turntable. They measured out my teens. Any Beatles track instantly transfers me to a specific segment of my past. When I heard of Lennon's death I felt a sense of shock well beyond what I felt at the deaths of the Kennedys and Luther King. I suffered the shock as it were helplessly."
--Martin Amis, *The Observer,* 1980