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TIL that David Bowie was next on Mark Chapman’s hitlist, after John Lennon. “Chapman had a front-row ticket to The Elephant Man the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show, too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row.”

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