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John Lennon: My Brilliant Career

Simon Frith, New York Rocker, March 1981

'Death Of A Hero' it said in big black letters across the front of the Daily Mirror, and if I hadn't known already I'd have expected a story about a policeman or a solider in Northern Ireland.

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