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Someone as iconic as John Lennon<\/a> would typically be too absorbed by their own projects to really take much notice of anyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n But in so many ways, both sonically and otherwise, this was a man like no other. Despite having one of the most prolific back catalogues all of history, as well as an equally blazing but enigmatic persona to go with it, Lennon always had his finger on the pulse of not just where music was headed in the future, but the pillars of the past which created it. <\/p>\n In this sense, although his time with The Beatles and his own solo ventures took him into a far more kaleidoscopic land than anyone could have imagined initially, he never forgot those pivotal founding roots of what made him want to become a musician in the first place. This had nothing to do with psychedelia or peace campaigns \u2013 this was good old-fashioned skiffle and rock and roll. <\/p>\n From the early days of the 1960s, this had been the original jumping off point from where the Fabs \u2013 and before them, The Quarrymen \u2013 launched, and although they obviously traversed a long way away from this over the ensuing years, the genre was always the first love Lennon held closest to his heart. <\/p>\n As such, when it came to his 1975 classic covers album Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll, there was only one direction that the record could ever head down. For obvious reasons, this largely revolved around the classics, but there was one Buddy Holly tune included for the specific reason that Lennon knew it \u201cbackwards\u201d. <\/p>\n