(January 1967 at the time of the release of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane’; grade 12 school operetta cast party–armed with electric guitar, playing Eric Burdon and The Animals’ “I’m Mad” with shoulder-length-haired Ed Greene wailing on vocals and Eric Crone on blues harmonica; my then-brief teenybopper-girlfriend facing the camera)
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!”
–William Wordsworth