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Fri 12 Dec 2009Middle class hero
John Lennon wasn’t a working class hero after all, according to a new film by Sam Taylor-Wood. The one-time Young British Artist tells Donald Clarkehow she was drawn to the former Beatle, whose troubled early life mirrored her own, then fell in love with the young man who plays him in the movie
IT SEEMS hard to believe now, but, well into the 1970s, large swathes of the world’s population felt The Beatles were nothing more than a passing fad. Indeed, it was hard to find anybody born before 1930 who believed the band’s records would endure for another decade. Yet here we are. Recently remastered CDs of the White Albumjoin copies of The Beatles: Rock Band game beneath the world’s Christmas trees.
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