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TIL that before she was an actress, Sissy Spacek was a singer, who, recording under the name "Rainbo," released a novelty song called "John, You Went Too Far This Time," which was a reaction to John Lennon posing naked with Yoko Ono on the cover of their "Two Virgins" album

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