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Unlike his band mates, Lennon was always subversive and relatively unstable. But the public saw only the witty, nonconformist side…Two days before he was murdered, Playboy published an interview in which he admitted to being violent toward women

For the first time in fifteen years, Muhammad Ali has the world spot light again.
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And one more thing: I’m still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was twelve years old in Louisville. And I’m still gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

I’m happy. I’m still pretty. I could have a black eye. Broken teeth. Split lips.
I think I came out all right for an old man.

The last months of 1979 are spent traveling the world with Veronica on a retirement tour. She has a favorite cockatoo that goes everywhere with her, requiring Ali to continue his labish spending-- including buying the bird its own first-class airline seat.

I've been doing it for 25 years, and you can only do so much wear and tear to the body. It changes a man. It has changed me. I can see it. I can feel it."

Breakfast each day is filet mignon and a gallon of orange juice.

“In addition to being married four times, Joe Louis began using cocaine, which led to heart problems and financial difficulty.”
Funny those are coupled together like that 😂

“Ninety percent of the people on this planet, especially in the West, were born out of a bottle of whiskey on a Saturday night,” Lennon will say.

He is there to see soul singer Ann Peebles. Yet the former Beatle becomes so drunk that he wanders through the audience with a sanitary napkin attached to his forehead, ignoring the singer he came to see. As Lennon departs, a waitress heckles him for leaving a poo tip. "Do you know who I am?" he demands. "Yeah," says the waitress. "You're some asshole with a Kotex on your head."

"Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces--no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself."