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John Lennon Trivia
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- Widow Yoko Ono's photograph of John's spectacles, bloodstained from day he was fatally shot outside their apartment building in December 1980, sold at auction in London, April 2002 for about $13,000. At second Christie's auction later in April, 2 tape recordings of Lennon improvising songs and telling stories to his stepdaughter sold for $195,000. One tape, from summer of 1969, records Lennon making up tunes and telling 6-year-old Kyoko about a dwarf who lived in their garden. It sold for $110,000. Other tape, a 25-minute recording of Lennon working on melody and lyrics for "She Said She Said", contains lyrics never heard in the song's final "Revolver" version. It sold for $85,200.
- Assassinated as he returned from the recording studio Monday, December 8, 1980, outside the Dakota, his apartment building, by Mark David Chapman, a crazed fan.
- The Cranberries' song "I Just Shot John Lennon" explored the day of his murder at the hands of Mark Chapman.
- In 1974, he and Harry Nilsson were "helped to leave" the Troubadour Club by the bouncers, after they both heckled the Smothers Brothers onstage. In the middle of his fight to stay in the US in the early 70s, an arrest would certainly have clinched his being deported. (Lennon had already been denied entry in the late 1960s because of his one arrest of record, for hashish possession in the UK; he was only allowed back into the US when he and Yoko Ono attended the Primal Institute in Los Angeles, on the grounds that he was "seeing a psychiatrist," and later for their custody fight for Yoko's daughter.) Lennon and Nilsson both sent flowers and an apology to the Smothers Brothers the next day, and Lennon replied to a columnist's speculation that he might have been using drugs, with the confirmation that they'd simply had too many Brandy Alexanders.
- Yoko Ono signed over the royalties of his song "Imagine", in purpetuity, to Amnesty International, a world-wide organization devoted to political prisoners.
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