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Mar 2025
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John Lennon | The Boy Everyone Wanted | ...

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A tug of love sees the young John Lennon pulled between his mother, father and aunt Mimi in a disrupted childhood. But that experience of conflict finds a creative outlet when he meets a cool kid with a guitar called Paul McCartney.

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