“We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.”

—  John Lennon

Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)

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English singer and songwriter 1940–1980

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