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ALWAYS PR-conscious, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took out an advert in the New York Times in May 1979, explaining that their continued absence from the music world was “a silence of love and not of indifference”. Paul McCartney added helpfully: “People call John a recluse because he isn’t doing what they expect him to do. In fact he’s getting on with being a family man.”
The reality was not quite so edifying. As Kenneth Womack reports in , Lennon’s supposed
