Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon when they married, March 1969
Lennon and Ono at a Bed-in at Hilton Amsterdam, March 1969
Lennon and Ono recording "Give Peace a Chance", at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, 1969
Murder of John Lennon
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On the evening of 8 December 1980, the English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The killer, Mark David Chapman, was an American Beatles fan who was jealous and enraged by Lennon's lifestyle, alongside his 1966 comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Chapman said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, a "phony-killer" who loathes hypocrisy.
A police artist's sketch of the murder
Annie Leibovitz's portrait of Lennon and Ono, taken on the day of the killing
The 72nd Street entrance to the Dakota, where Lennon was shot
Side view of the Dakota archway, showing the step Lennon climbed before he collapsed in the lobby