Imagine this

It was almost exactly 25 years ago and I was just a few weeks into my first job in journalism. The advertising manager in the small office on the main street of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, had a habit of leaving his radio on all day. I had learnt to ignore it most of the time but, for some reason, I noticed that the normally conservative local top 40 station had played several songs by the same artist. "Why are they playing so many John Lennon songs?" I asked aloud. "Oh," said the deputy editor, who sat behind me. "Haven't you heard ..."