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The ballad of John, and Yoko

JOHN LENNON: The Life, by Philip Norman. Ecco, 822 pp., $34.95.

If only John Lennon had gone out to eat after what would become his last studio session.

It was 10:30 p.m. on Dec.8, 1980, and Lennon had rejected Yoko Ono's suggestion that they should stop for a bite at the Stage Deli. He wanted to head home to see their 5-year-old son at the Dakota, the high-gabled landmark apartment...

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