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Friend reflects on why Yoko Ono organized global silence for John Lennon in 1980

Bob Gruen describes the inspiration behind the 10 minutes of global silence after Lennon's death: “Yoko had to tell Sean that his father wasn't coming home. Sean said, ‘Well, now he's everywhere.’”

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