Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ON THE ROAD A Rock Spectacle Lyrics by JOHN LENNON and PAUL MCCARTNEY Directed by TOM O'HORGAN
...Beatle John Lennon, 34, who has had his gruff periods, was in silly high spirits last week during recording sessions in Manhattan. "Hello, this is President Ford," he announced when the phone rang, "and I just want to say I never took a dime." Honest John is in the midst of a fight against deportation. "I don't know what will happen," said the man who is becoming one of America's longest-playing imports. "People read in the paper that I've got 30 days left, and then they...
...dance floor fills with couples reliving junior high sock-hops. Every few minutes a fellow who works nights for Penn Central and is calling in sick to be here, jumps up to imitate Lennon. "Back in the USSR. Yeah! Back in the USSR," he sings, waving an invisible guitar over his head. "Yabadabadaba!" shouts someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into...
...crowd snatches up other rarities: a Beatlemobile, made of paper and string, for $10; a Revere plastic model of Ringo, just like your favorite songbird or racing car, for $11. Joe picks up a hand-painted sign reading, "Koo Koo Koo Joop." "Whoever can tell me what book Lennon got this word from gets a free album." Purists should know tangential questions like this. Why, just the other day, when Joe was doing a radio show, someone called to confirm Lennon's license plate number...
...John Lennon? The U.S. Justice Department announced that if ex-Beatle John Lennon, 33, does not shake American dust off his boots by Sept. 10, he will be forcibly deported. In 1968 a gallant Lennon pleaded guilty in London to possession of enough grass for 40 joints in order to avoid, he said, dragging Pregnant Yoko Ono through the courts. But when John and Yoko arrived to live in the U.S. in 1971, John only got a six-month visa-unrenewable, it turned out, because of his conviction. John appealed his fate. Last week the appeal was rejected...