SINGER POSED FOR MAGAZINE PHOTOS WITH RENTED CHIMPANZEE

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Randy Cordova
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 15, 2002 12:00:00

... Hip music mag Blender featured the dark-eyed [singer-songwriter John] Mayer in a bizarre photo session with a chimpanzee.

"I thought it was something I could do without looking like a schmuck," he says. "I thought, 'Cool, let's hang out with a monkey for a day. I'm not an image machine.' "

And, of course, who doesn't love monkeys?

"If you had Jennifer Lopez walking down the street with a chimpanzee, everyone would say, 'Oh my God, look at the (rear-end) on that chimpanzee.' "...