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Some Time in New York City: John Lennon’s Manhattan

Steve Turner, The Independent, 18 August 1990

"I SHOULD HAVE been born in New York," John Lennon once said. "I should have been born in the Village. That’s where I belong. Everybody heads towards the centre and that’s why I’m here now. I’m here just to breathe it."

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