“Well, that's rubbish, you know. Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that's just barely possible.”

—  John Lennon

On whether he's under Yoko's spell, under her control
Playboy interview (1980)

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English singer and songwriter 1940–1980

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