"Ono's film ""Clock"", which was filmed in September 1971. That version relied more prominently on the ""que pasa"" lyrics than the final version. Lennon continued to expand the lyrics and make demo recordings of the song, including an acoustic version from late 1971 which was included on ""John Lennon Anthology"". The final version released on the album was recorded in 1972 with Elephant's Memory on the backing instruments. ""New York City"" is in some ways a sequel to ""The Ballad of John and Yoko,"" a song Lennon wrote and performed with The Beatles. Like the earlier Beatles' song, ""New York"
"Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's novel ""The Catcher in the Rye"" until he was arrested by the police. He referred to the novel as his statement and later said that his objective was to acquire fame and notoriety. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Chapman"
"to New York shortly prior to the murder. Claims include Chapman was a ""Manchurian candidate"", including speculation on links to the CIA's Project MKULTRA. At least one author has argued forensic evidence proves Chapman did not commit the murder. Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's"
"how he should be billed to which Chapman replied ""Mark fucking Lindsay Chapman. That's my fucking name."" Schaefer remarks that this was so reflective of how Lennon talked, it just reinforced his sense that Chapman was right for the part. The film began shooting in Manhattan, New York in 2006. ""I don't have much to compare it to, but the challenges were daunting,"" said Schaefer, who directed several sequences outside The Dakota, the site of Lennon's assassination. ""I had to go into a place that was very sensitive to our story, with trucks, a crew, and a limited amount of"
"is the basis of all life...then you are my soul. And your life is my life. This is the first letter of what I hope will be an everlasting correspondence. Your greatest fan, Douglas Breen. ""The Fan"" was shot in New York City from April 1 to June 1980. The film received a great deal of media attention due to being released a few months after the murder of John Lennon, who was shot to death by Mark David Chapman, a former fan, outside his apartment building The Dakota, a building where Bacall had been living for many years. However,"
"no funeral was held. Ono sent word to the chanting crowd outside the Dakota that their singing had kept her awake; she asked that they re-convene at Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell the following Sunday for ten minutes of silent prayer. On 14 December 1980, millions of people around the world responded to Ono's request to pause for ten minutes of silence to remember Lennon. Thirty thousand gathered in Lennon's hometown of Liverpool, England, and the largest group—over 225,000—converged on Central Park, close to the scene of the shooting. For those ten minutes, every radio station in New York City went"
"and realizing the severity of the musician's multiple injuries, he covered Lennon's chest with his uniform jacket, removed his blood-covered glasses, and summoned the police. Chapman then removed his coat and hat in preparation for the arrival of police—to show he was not carrying any concealed weapons—and remained standing on West 72nd Street. Perdomo shouted at Chapman, ""Do you know what you've done?"", to which Chapman calmly replied, ""Yes, I just shot John Lennon."" Officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen were the first policemen to arrive at the scene; they were at 72nd Street and Broadway when they heard a"
"West Village townhouse for sale at , stating she wanted to move closer to her daughter. Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou ""Annie"" Leibovitz (; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work has been used on numerous album covers and magazines. She became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz. She is a third-generation American; her father's"
"love him. On 8 December 1980, in New York City, Mark David Chapman shot dead pop star Lennon. His motive was that he felt Lennon was a hypocrite for espousing universal brotherhood, whilst at the same time being a multi-millionaire enjoying a lavish lifestyle far beyond the reach of the large majority of people. On 22 August 1922 in County Cork, Ireland, Irish nationalist leader who fought for Irish independence was shot dead by Anti-Treaty IRA gunmen as they believe he betrayed the Irish Republic. On 21 August 1940 in Mexico City, Bolshevik leader Trotsky was killed with a mountaineering"
"'Hi', but they don't bug you."" The Lennons exited their limousine on 72nd Street instead of driving into the more secure courtyard of the Dakota. The Dakota doorman Jose Perdomo and a nearby taxi driver saw Chapman standing in the shadows by the archway. As Lennon passed by, he glanced briefly at Chapman and nodded slightly, appearing to recognise him from earlier. Seconds later, Chapman took aim at the center of Lennon's back and fired five hollow-point bullets at him from a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver, in rapid succession, from a distance of about nine or ten feet (about"
"to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the album ""Double Fantasy"". He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building three weeks after the album was released. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war"
"October 9, 1985, by New York Mayor Ed Koch and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project. The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where Lennon had lived for the latter part of his life, and where he was murdered in 1980. The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: ""Imagine"". This was"
"Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou ""Annie"" Leibovitz (; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work has been used on numerous album covers and magazines. She became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz. She is a third-generation American; her father's parents were Romanian Jews. Her mother was a modern dance instructor of Estonian-Jewish heritage. Her father"
"see John Lennon in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The next day, when Alan is released from the hospital, Jessica tells him that he has a wall around him, and Alan realizes that Jessica really was going to leave him. Alan gets a phone call that his mother, Jean, has had a stroke. He makes plans to go home that night, giving the concert tickets to his roommates. As he tries to hitchhike home to Lewiston, Maine, Alan remembers the funeral of his father, Julian, when he was 6 years old. He envisions the death of his mother, and then himself, with"
"the back at close range. Lennon was rushed in a police cruiser to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00p.m. (EST). Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of ""Double Fantasy"" for Chapman. Ono issued a statement the next day, saying ""There is no funeral for John"", ending it with the words, ""John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him."" His remains were cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields"
"island of Viðey, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavík, Iceland. Each year, between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light high into the sky. In 2009, Ono created an exhibit called ""John Lennon: The New York City Years"" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The exhibit used music, photographs, and personal items to depict Lennon's life in New York, and a portion of the cost of each ticket was donated to Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Lennon and Ono. Every time Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman"
"New York. After John Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980, he moved to Manhattan, where he worked for neighborhood newspapers including The Westsider, East Side Express and Chelsea-Clinton News, and later at the assignment desk and as newswriter and show producer at WNEW-TV's ""10 O'Clock News"". Kearns became a producer and writer for such New York City news operations as WNBC-TV's News 4 New York and CBS News' Nightwatch and CBS Morning News. With a background as a music writer and early chronicler of the punk music scene early in his newspaper career (he performed with Joey Ramone on the"
"additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album ""Milk and Honey"", which was released posthumously, in 1984. ""Double Fantasy"" was jointly released by Lennon and Ono very shortly before his death; the album was not well received and drew comments such as ""Melody Maker""'s ""indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn"". After an evening at the Record Plant on 8 December 1980, Lennon and Ono returned to their Manhattan apartment in a limousine at around 10:50p.m. (EST). They exited the vehicle and walked through the archway of The Dakota, when lone gunman Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times in"
"the musicians. When news got around that Lennon was in Hollywood making a record, every musician there wanted to be part of the sessions. In mid-October 1973, sessions were booked at A&M Studios, with many of them having over 30 musicians, but the sessions quickly fell into disarray—fueled by alcohol. Spector once showed up dressed in a surgeon's outfit and shot a gun in the ceiling of the studio, hurting Lennon's ears. On another occasion, a bottle of whiskey had spilled on the A&M Studio's mixing console causing future sessions to be banned from the facility. Unknown to Lennon, each"
"that evening, but he probably would have tried another day. Around 10:50 p.m., Lennon and Ono returned to the Dakota in a limousine. They got out of the vehicle, passed Chapman and walked toward the archway entrance of the building. From the street behind them, Chapman fired five hollow-point bullets from a .38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back and shoulder, puncturing his left lung and left subclavian artery. At the time, one newspaper reported before Chapman fired, he softly called out ""Mr. Lennon"" and dropped into a combat stance. Chapman said he does not recall"
"January 1981 to record the song. Starr and Bach flew from New York to Los Angeles, on 28 November. Back in Hollywood two days later, Starr, Nilsson and engineer Paul Travis listened to playbacks of the July sessions at Compass Point Studios. On 1 December, Starr laid down vocals for ""You Can't Fight Lightning"". For the next two days, Starr and Jarvis mixed the album. On 4 December, Starr added vocals to a re-make of ""Back Off Boogaloo"". The next day Starr flew to the Bahamas to be with Bach. On 8 December, Lennon was gunned down outside The Dakota"
"to the shooting than ""Chapter 27"". On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"". In one instant, an anonymous, socially awkward and mentally unstable 25-year-old fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music. A"
"in Manhattan), Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months. ""Walking on Thin Ice (For John)"" was released as a single less than a month later, and became Ono's first chart success, peaking at No. 58 and gaining major underground airplay. In 1981, she released the album ""Season of Glass"", which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. This photograph sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about"
"Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York on 10 December; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first media report of Lennon's death to a U.S. national audience was announced by sportscaster Howard Cosell, on ABC's ""Monday Night Football"". Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of Lennon and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life imprisonment. He has remained in prison ever since, having been denied parole ten times amidst campaigns against his release after he became eligible in 2000. Photographer Annie"
"recordings of Dr. John made at the Hit Factory are of indeterminate status, presumed in the Crown Casino or Nexxt Productions intellectual property vault After the death of John Lennon, on December 8, 1980, public awareness of The Hit Factory increased; Lennon's final album had been recorded at Hit Factory's Times Square studio at 353 West 48th Street. Mourners and music fans around the world read accounts of the murder in newspapers on the days following the shooting, and the Hit Factory was mentioned in some of these publications. However, there are contradictory reports as to whether he was recording"
"fellow ex-Beatle, John Lennon, had been shot and killed the night before in New York City. Abandoning that day's session part-way through (where he and Denny Laine were recording future B-side ""Rainclouds""), both Martin and McCartney felt it was best to leave the project for the time being and start anew once they were ready. In February 1981, two months after Lennon's death, McCartney resumed the sessions, recording that month with Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Carl Perkins and Ringo Starr and laying down several songs in the process. The sessions were held at AIR Studios in Montserrat, in the Caribbean,"
"and going toward people who just have the money."" Even before this, Gene Simmons, Billy Joel, and Carly Simon were denied residency by the board. In 2002, the board rejected Dennis Mehiel, the corrugated-cardboard magnate and Democratic Party nominee for lieutenant governor of New York. The south entrance of the building was the location of the murder of John Lennon. It is prominently featured in Andrew Piddington's 2006 film ""The Killing of John Lennon"", although The Dakota was only used for exterior shots. In Roman Polanski's 1968 film ""Rosemary's Baby"", The Dakota was used for exterior shots of ""The Bramford"","
"became local landmarks, with many buildings featuring American inspired architecture. During World War 2, Liverpool was the control centre for the Battle of the Atlantic. There were eighty air-raids on Merseyside, with an especially concentrated series of raids in May 1941 which interrupted operations at the docks for almost a week. Some 2,500 people were killed, almost half the homes in the metropolitan area sustained some damage and some 11,000 were totally destroyed. Over 70,000 people were made homeless. John Lennon, one of the founding members of The Beatles, was born in Liverpool during an air-raid on 9 October 1940."
"in similar fashion. John Lennon was shot outside his home in New York City on the night of December 8, 1980. Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1980. Bob Marley died from a lentiginous skin melanoma on May 11, 1981. Harry Chapin died of a car accident on July 16, 1981. Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his home in Los Angeles on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday. Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads died in an airplane crash on March 19, 1982. Karen Carpenter died"
"Lennon Sisters) felt that the father stood in the way and had to be eliminated. Lying in wait, Young shot him in the parking lot of the Marina Del Rey golf course and two months later used the same gun to commit suicide. The family later discovered an unopened letter having a cutout of Mr. Lennon, a picture of a gun pointed at his head, and the words ""High Noon"" (the time of the murder) (source Dr. Doreen Orion, ""I Know You Really Love Me""). Venice was founded in 1977; the band was initially founded by him and his cousin"
"suggested that the lyrics of the song are a reference to the murder of John Lennon despite the fact that the events in the song do not correspond with those of Lennon's murder. Lennon was shot four times just before 11 pm, whereas in the song the time is 4 am and the number of shots is six. Also, the night Lennon was shot (8 December 1980) was a new moon, so there was no moonlight, and in the song it is Saturday night while Lennon was killed on a Monday night. When asked if ""Moonlight Shadow"" is a reference"
"and hitting a window of the Dakota building. The next two bullets struck Lennon in the left side of his back, and the other two penetrated his left shoulder. Lennon, bleeding profusely from external wounds and from his mouth, staggered up five steps to the security/reception area where he said, ""I'm shot, I'm shot"". He then fell to the floor, scattering cassettes that he had been carrying. Perdomo ran inside and told concierge worker Jay Hastings that the attacker had dropped his gun on the sidewalk. Hastings first started to make a tourniquet, but upon ripping open Lennon's blood-stained shirt"
"Harrison wrote as a tribute to his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon, who had been fatally shot in New York City on 8 December 1980. Its inclusion on the single led many listeners to assume that ""Writing's on the Wall"" also addressed Lennon's murder, particularly with the line referring to friends who are unexpectedly ""shot away"". Author Robert Rodriguez comments that, had the scheduled release of ""Somewhere in England"" taken place in late 1980, ""listeners would doubtless have been chilled by the song's prescience"". Coinciding with the public's outpouring of grief in reaction to Lennon's death, the single was a"