Music: Beatledmmerung

The sad thing is that John Lennon now remembers only the pain. As the No. 1 Beatle, he lived one of the most exciting, financially successful and creative lives of the rock era. But what sticks in his mind today is not the joy of the pop classics he wrote with Paul McCartney, but the misery that fame brought him, as well as the suppression of ego required by working in the group. It was Paul McCartney who quit the Beatles last spring and who is now formally seeking...

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