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Apple “house hippie” Richard DiLello explains how, in January 1970, he cameto document John and Yoko’s startling new haircuts
Richard DiLello
Top of the crops: John and Yoko, 1970
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IN 1967, British Pathé News described it as “£4,000 worth of gaily painted rolling stock” – a gypsy caravan bought as a fourth-birthday present for Julian Lennon, decorated with the Sgt Pepper ‘drum’ logo. Three years later, Apple employee Richard DiLello found it in the garden of the Lennon estate at Tittenhurst Park and thought it would make a great background for a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “On a bleak English January day, it was perfect,” DiLello remembers. “It was the only colour there. We spent the day going around the property, doing some pictures. Yoko fixed lunch for us, and we sat around drinking tea and chatting.”