John Lennon
Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 13 December 1980
WHEN WE were growing up, my brother and I, he loved John Lennon especially. Our parents used to give us a Beatles album every Christmas. Sergeant Pepper was the last one we got. Maybe we left home after that, I can't remember.
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