An underrated John Lennon album finally gets its due
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“Mind Games, to me, was like an interim record between being a manic political lunatic to back to being a musician again,” John Lennon told Crawdaddy magazine in March 1974 about his fourth solo album. “I was really playing mind games—mind games is what it was. I had had enough of this trying to be deep and thought,…