Happy Mother’s Day? Revisiting John Lennon’s “Mother”

From Al Jolson’s black-faced tearjerker “Mammy” to the Rolling Stones’ “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadows” (which portrayed a struggling unwed mother confronted by the looming ghost of her own mother), songs about moms have often spelled trouble. Nothing was more outrageous than The Doors’ oedipal opus, “The End,” in which […]

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