A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Fabulous Night Out!

A Fabulous Night Out!

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John Mendelssohn
Apr 18, 2015
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A controversy raged the other day about why the middleaged are less passionate about music than when they were young. I am reminded of the John Lennon quotation about no music ever being as thrilling and inspiring at that which one loves at 19. 

I think it’s biological. In some ways, we never live more intensely than when our endocrine systems are bellow…

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