“You have to be! (Laughs) You might get shot!”

—  John Lennon

Responding to a reporter question during The Beatles Australian tour of if they were aware of everything going on around them. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5UUQM2Qy4

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English singer and songwriter 1940–1980

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