The death of John Lennon

 

The death of John Lennon

John Lennon's death on December 8, 1980 alerted the world to fanaticism and the dark side of fame. The artist was preparing his return to solo music and five shots were enough to end his dreams.

 

The magazine would announce the idol's return with its year-end issue, for which Lennon had offered an interview day before. This information was kept for three decades by the publication and became known on the anniversary of his death.

 

"I don't want to be a dead hero shit," the musician had told Rolling Stone.

 

 

 

In the afternoon, the couple went to a radio station for a live interview on the Dave Sholin show, to whom they offered details of their relationship. Lennon, 40 years old, also recalled during the interview his past as a member of The Beatles and spoke of future projects.

 

It was in this program where he declared that he had used these years of absence to compose and to the growth of his little Sean, the result of his relationship with Yoko Ono, since he could not be present in the same way in the life of his eldest son Julian, who He was born from his first marriage to an English artist.

 

Despite this absence from the studios, Lennon was harassed by fans who lined up at the entrance to the Dakota building in New York, where he lived with his family.

 

 

 

After the radio interview, the couple headed to the Record Plant Studio where they worked on a Yoko Ono song in which Lennon played the guitar. It was at the exit when the actor ran into his murderer for the first time, the young Mark David Chapman who approached him with the Double Fantasy album and asked for his autograph.

 

Around 10:50 p.m., Chapman was waiting for Lennon outside the Dakota among a group of supporters. The artist got out of the car to sign autographs while Yoko Ono was moving forward to the entrance arch of the building, when Chapman discharged the concealed weapon into the chest of her idol.

 

 

 

The author of "Imagine" was pronounced dead in the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital and days later, his ashes were scattered in Central Park in New York, where the Strawberry Fields memorial remains today.

 

Chapman was sentenced to life in prison and has since been denied parole several times. Fanaticism showed its negative side with the murder of Lennon, the musical idol remembered by generations every December

With affection

Ruben