23 September

People wilfully ignorant of history refuse to see how the surge in importance of rock stars was the pointy end of the countercultural movement. Here are John and Yoko spelling it out, ‘power to the people’. That’s still our culture, I’d bet 9.5 out of 10 people still think that’s what democracy is. ‘The people’ is a collective noun. That’s literally all it is. It’s a nothing, that can do nothing.