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The John Lennon I knew

Maureen Cleave, Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2005

The man who changed the course of pop music would have been 65 this week. Maureen Cleave, who knew the Beatles at the height of their fame – and who relayed Lennon's most notorious quote to the world – recalls his chippy genius, and wonders if he would ever have been friends again with Paul McCartney

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