Inspiration for the song was known to have come to Lennon in July that year, while watching a film about baseball during a visit to Bermuda.
“After watching dozens in search of the mysterious film in question, I began to study TV guides from that period.
A month before he was shot dead in December 1980, John Lennon released the song Grow Old With Me, its lyrics drawn from a Robert Browning poem.
He added: “For decades, American filmmakers had put out one baseball film after another, and there are hundreds of them.
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