It`s true...I use to work with a guy who told me back in the late `70`s he installed carpet for them at the Dakota. He said they had two rooms, one was completely white, everything down to the furniture, tables, couches was white and the other room was the exact opposite, completely black and they wanted white carpet for the white room and black for the black room. He said it was insane, Yoko would be in the same room and would tell her assistant what she wanted and the assistant would tell him. She couldn`t talk to him directly even though she was in the same room because she was just stoned out of her mind, paranoid as hell.
He didn`t meet John, but he heard later on it was because he was hiding in his room the whole time. That dude was doing some major dope, I don`t care what anyone says. I mean you just have to look how skinny he was right before he died with those huge bags under his eyes. That is a heroin look, that wasn`t no diet. The guy was only 40 yet he looked 50. The guy would have probably Od`ed anyway if he wasn`t shot.
If you haven't already seen it, check out John's "Live Peace in Toronto" video. That shows a John Lennon who is obviously severely messed up.
I'm a huge Beatles fan and subjected my kids to a steady diet of them when they were little, including the movies. My kids loved them. When the kids got a little older I showed them the "Live Peace in Toronto" video and told them that John was an example of what drugs can do to you. It scared the heck out of them.
I read the same accounts in Rolling Stone mag years ago about the wacky love nest Yoko and John set up in NYC. All white rooms etc. Can you believe that funking Yoko is worth a billion these days?