Posted on 06/11/2007 8:49:47 AM PDT by Jack Wilson
LONDON -- John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment after deciding he wanted to return home to see his son rather than go out for dinner, Yoko Ono said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"We were returning from the studio, and I said: 'Should we go and have dinner before we go home?' and John was saying, 'No, lets go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep.' And it was like he wasn't sure if we would get home before he (Sean) went to sleep and he was concerned about that."
Ono, 74, the wife of the late Beatle, made the comment on "Desert Island Discs," the British Broadcasting Corp. radio program that interviews famous people and plays their favorite songs.
She said Lennon uttered no dying words when he was shot and killed by deranged fan Mark Chapman outside their Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on Dec. 8, 1980.
Ono also said that when she became pregnant with Sean shortly after the couple reunited in 1975 following a two-year separation, she let Lennon decide whether she should have the baby or abort it.
"I thought that I should let John decide whether to keep it or not.
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Poor kid, having Yoko sing lullabies to him as an infant.
She’s icky on sooooo many levels. (bleeech)
To godless people a baby is always an it until it is born.
Ms. BS Artist I see is embellishing. She just makes my skin crawl.
Dennis Leary put it best, “What kind of country is this when John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not a single f’ing bullet? Explain that to me.”
Someone on this forum has a tagline which wonders why six shots hit Lennon and none hit Yoko...
Chapman's insanity plea was premeditated as well....
((((snicker))))
I shouldn’t laugh but......LOL!
The thing that struck me the night Lennon was killed was that after Howard Cossell announced the killing, that the response from Dandy Don was to announce the down and yardage.
The thing I noticed was that it was fifty below at the time.
I’m guessing that Lennon’s last words were along the lines of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak’s to FDR: “Why wasn’t it you?”
Yeah. I misread the post and thought it had something to do with a lemon.
“The songs Ono played on Sunday’s show included Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” (about Sean); “Liverpool Lou,” which was written by Scaffold, a Liverpool group that included Paul McCartney’s brother, and “Magic,” a song composed by Sean.”
And her own composition, “Cats Being Gutted”.
The B-side of “Cats Being Gutted” was “Cats in Heat.”
I don’t think it would have mattered what time John Lennon arrived home. His murderer was laying in wait for him.
True. But Sean probably thinks it was his fault.
“...thought it had something to do with a lemon.”
Funny. I misread it also, and thought it had something to do with Jack Lemon.
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