Can TTLs Desert Storm be renamed? It is a bit too convergent for my tastes.
I'm not super picky, but I agree with this.
It would be interesting if the Rajneeshees became a bigger force ITTL than OTL.
Interesting. Why do you think so? If you have a good idea, you should write something up.
Here's a bit more stuff to continue the saga of John Lennon:
January 2 1981: A healthy and smiling John Lennon is discharged from Roosevelt Hospital. With his wife by his side, he is greeted by a crowd of fans. He pauses only to deliver a few remarks before disappearing into the back of a car.
April 8 1981: John Lennon makes his first public appearance since his discharge from Roosevelt by appearing on The Tonight Show. There he shares an easy banter with Johnny Carson, revealing that, yes, he plans to continue his musical career. If anything, he tells Carson, he will be doing much more. When asked if that means The Beatles may be reuniting, he shrugs noncommittally.
May 1 1981: In an interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon gives a detailed description of the attack upon him and his wife, and expresses incredulity and anger over Chapman's justification for the attempted murder. “I really don't understand it. Chapman wanted to kill me and Yoko because I said I didn't believe in God. Can you believe that? I can't. It's insane.”
May 10 1981: A major announcement reveals that The Beatles will be playing at a benefit concert on the Fourth of July in NYC. In a released statement, McCartney says that all four members will indeed be reuniting, and that the profits will go to benefit impoverished regions across the world.
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uly 4 1981: An estimated 100,000 individuals gather to hear The Beatles play in New York. The concert goes well for the most part until about halfway through, when Lennon stops and proceeds to spend the next 20 minutes ranting about Bush and the war in Iraq. The concert proceeds normally from following the rant, but afterward an angry George Harrison accuses Lennon of grandstanding, while McCartney, who hoped that the concert would remain as apolitical as possible, tells Lennon not to bother contacting him again. For his part, Lennon does not care. The Beatles split once more.
August 11 1981: John and Yoko Ono Lennon release
Can You Imagine?, a virulently antiwar album which Lennon says is a thematic sequel to
Imagine, but "more cynical." "The world isn't changing," says Lennon, "and maybe I'm the one that needs to change. I think we all do." The album contains a number of singles which are directly critical of Bush's war in Iraq, and of the President himself. The response to the musical quality of the album is positive; however reaction to the message is mixed.
August 20 1981: At his sentencing hearing for the attempted murder of the Lennons, Mark David Chapman reads a passage from
Catcher in the Rye. John Lennon, who was invited to attend, is conspicuously absent.
October 13 1981: While visiting John Lennon in his studio, Rolling Stone contributor Cameron Crowe asks if Lennon has had any contact with the other Beatles since the July Fourth concert, to which Lennon replies, “I talk to Ringo sometimes. But George and Paul, they're done with me, and that's fine. It was fun while it lasted, but we've all gotten over it. Hopefully everyone else will too.” When pressed on whether he plans to continue his solo career, or if he has any collaborations planned with other artists, Lennon cryptically replies, “I've made some new friends in the industry and let's just say they're a lot more like me.”