Mark Mason

Just a guy who writes songs

  • The John Lennon Letters

    Hunter Davies (editor)

    Weidenfeld, pp. 400

There is a famous piece of film — well, famous to those of us who know more about the Beatles than is possibly good for our health — where John Lennon encounters a fan who has broken into the star’s Berkshire estate. Clearly a lost soul, the fan is searching for meaning, signficance, some sort of connection with his idol.

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