People: Oct. 8, 1984

It was originally intended as a gift for his wife's 50th birthday, but John Lennon never got to begin work on a collection of Yoko Ono songs recorded by other artists. The idea, however, lived on, and with a little help from her friends, Ono, 51, finally finished the album. Every Man Has a Woman features twelve songs performed by such divergent talents as Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Roberta Flack and a young lad more or less new to the business, Sean Ono Lennon, 8, who sings It's Alright. Next...

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