Released in 1972, John & Yoko's, Sometime In New York City has always been one of Master Zhihui's favorite albums. But while creating a recent post entitled, "Oh Yoko!" we noticed that our original album has the words Established 1984 on the upper right hand side of the album's front cover. [Click the image to enlarge and see for yourself.]
Did we and a whole lot of others miss the point? (John Winston Lennon) George Orwell's 1984:
Wikipedia writes: Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984),[1] by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is a 1949 English novel about life in a fictional, future authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston is degraded and psychologically tortured after he is arrested by the Thought Police under the instruction of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in the year 1984.
The book has major significance for its vision of an all-observing government which uses constant surveillance and propaganda, both insidious and blatant, to control its citizens. The book had a substantial impact both in literature and on the perception of public surveillance, inspiring such terms as 'Big Brother' and 'Orwellian'.
Other gems written on the back cover include, "Don't think they didn't know about Hitler." and "This album was completed on March 20, 1972, our third wedding anniversary."
Isn't a shame that our government had Lennon assassinated?
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