So may I introduce to you John Lennon’s “Psychedelic Rolls”

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Attention car buffs. Attention Beatles fans. Attention lovers of nostalgia-especially in the psychedelic realm.

Rolls-Royce, in celebration of the 50th anniversary year of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is releasing images of John Lennon's so-called "Psychedelic Rolls," a tricked-out Rolls-Royce Phantom V that debuted shortly before the Fab Four's eighth studio album. Ars is publishing a few of those photos and others of the 1965 vehicle because, well, they have prompted me to imagine driving with Lennon-one of my heroes-as we drift by tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

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