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Salon.com article on newly released interviews with John and Yoko:
But the excerpt we have here is something else entirely: It is one of five intimate conversations Howard had with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (who turned 80 on February 18), who met with him in their St. Regis Hotel room in Manhattan, less than a year before the couple would settle in New York City, and the day Lennon’s album “Imagine” hit the shelves. A month later, on Lennon’s 31st birthday, the album would hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and become his best-selling album ...