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John Lennon for Tower Records on the strip (video)

By Kevin Roderick | August 28, 2014 12:13 PM

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John Lennon taped a promotional spot for the Tower Records store on Sunset Strip in 1974, reportedly while in studio at KHJ radio. The clip surfaced in a post at Dangerous Minds on the history of Tower Records and in particular the Sunset Strip store, a focal point of local record culture for three decades-plus.


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