John Lennon
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John Lennon sitting cross-legged on a park bench in John Lennon Park, in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Cuban artist José Villa Soberón cast him as he looked in the late 1960s, and Fidel Castro unveiled the bronze in 2000, decades after Beatles records had been banned in Cuba as a decadent symbol of capitalism. His round glasses come off and have been stolen many times, so a volunteer has kept a pair on hand to put back on for photos.
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