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| | Lennon v. Levy -- The "Roots" Lawsuit |
 | | The album "Imagine," Lennon's best seller to date (sales in 1975 of over 1.5 million) and his three worst-selling albums, "Two Virgins," "Unfinished Music No. Two: Life with the Lions," and "Wedding Album" (each of which sold between 20,000 and 50,000 copies) were all disregarded, presumably as aberrations. |
| | At the time damages were determined, the album had been out for over a year, and had sold 342,000 copies in the United States, despite generally unfavorable reviews, despite the album not being new compositions and despite a recession that caused record sales to be down generally some 15-25%". |
| | In discussing the condition of the "Roots" cover and record, the judges said that the out-of-tune track and indistinct voices were "reasonably clear even to appellate ears unused to Lennon's style of music". |
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