A Legend In His Own Minefield

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The Strange Rigidity of Floppy Disks

The Strange Rigidity of Floppy Disks

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 08, 2010
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In November 1974, during his famous months-long Lost Weekend estrangement from Yoko Ono, John Lennon famously did a lot of drinking at the Troubadour in West Hollywood with Harry Nilsson. On one occasion, they were thrown out for loudly urging the Smothers Bros., on stage at the time, to fuck a cow. On another, a drunken Lennon, having zanily affixed a …

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