Lennon-Ono mag cover picked as best

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The best magazine cover of the last 40 years was the Rolling Stone cover of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, photographed by Annie Liebovitz and published a month after the former Beatle was murdered in December 1980. At least it’s the best according to a panel of magazine editors, and I’d have to agree—almost twenty-five years later, it’s still wrenching to look at. The cover, pictured at right, was one of 41 that garnered mention in

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