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John Lennon
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John Lennon

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John Lennon
Crouching Sausage Dog/Man Figure
pen and ink drawing, circa 1965
7x10in. (17.8x25.4cm.); and Writings Of John Lennon - Being A Short Diversion On The Dubious Origins Of The Beatles, circa early 1960s, a mimeographed typescript sheet of the material initially published in the first issue of Mersey Beat, 6th July, 1961

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ROBERTSON, John The Art & Music Of John Lennon, London: Omnibus Press, 1980, p.7
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Being A Short Diversion On The Dubious Origins Of Beatles, represented Lennon's first appearance in print, 6th July, 1961. Lennon's friend Bill Harry asked him to write an account of the history of The Beatles to date for the first issues of the new fortnightly paper he edited, Mersey Beat. As John Robertson wrote, Harry ...expected to receive a straightforward account of names and places, but instead Lennon sheepishly turned in a goonish, pun-laden treatise which was the first outside evidence that the Liverpool rocker was also a notable wit...