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John Lennon grew up on Penny Lane, and after a time he moved to a house outside Liverpool, hard by a boys' reformatory. There was another house in the neighborhood where John and his pals would go to a party and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. The house was called Strawberry Fields. His boyhood was neither as roughly working-class as early Beatles p.r. indicated, nor quite as benign as the magical association of those place names might suggest. But John's adolescence in the suburbs, the garden outside the back door and the warm ministrations...
...contrast to each other. John became much more political, George more spiritual, Paul seemingly more larky, and Ringo more social. In the more than two years between Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road, Lennon and McCartney wrote, separately and still (but more tenuously) together, some of their greatest songs (Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, and Strawberry Fields Forever). But if the turmoil had an immediate, productive side, it also took an inevitable toll. In 1969, after the completion of Abbey Road, John told the boys he was leaving...
With Mannix back and firing from the outside, and Dixon controlling the lane in his role as the point guard in the Crimson's revamped 1-2-2 zone offense, the Crimson attack opened up, and played a looser, more relaxed kind of game...
Mannix hustling defense helped to slow down the onslaught of Wildcat guards R. Dixon and Al McLain--23 and 20 points, respectively--especially down the stretch, and his omnipresent outside shot opened up the lane for the Crimson's inside game although he hit a poor 4-for-11 for the night. In addition to his ten points, he dished out a game-high seven assists...
...readjustment of the Crimson's zone offense allowed sophomore guard Calvin Dixon relatively free reign over the offensive lane, and he responded by directing the Crimson attack in its most impressive campaign since the win over UMass. Dixon chalked up nine points and five assists in 40 minutes of play...