Down in Deepest Beatle-land, All John Gets is Love
David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 August 1967
DOWN IN the prosperous community of St. George's. Hill, Weybridge, in Surrey, something stirred. It wasn't a bird – it was a caravan, John Lennon's belated birthday present to his four-year-old son to be exact. Its arrival at the Lennon house created something of a rumpus.
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