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John Lennon: His ‘Plastic’ Packed a Punch

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Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentBy the end of 1970, the war in Vietnam had again claimed thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Vietnamese lives, and if you were a 19-year-old guy in either place, you were probably wondering how to make sure you’d still be around to see the end of 1971.

I know I was. That summer, the Temptations conjured a great little “psychedelic soul” record that summarized the mood for young people like me pretty well: “Segregation, determination, demonstration, integrationAggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation Ball of confusionOh yeah, that’s what the world is today” The summer of love in 1967 had quickly soured into a summer of mayhem in 1968, with assassinations of Martin Luther King.

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