JOHN LENNON 1940-1980
"...Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise 'cause all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot..." —John Lennon to interviewer David Wigg, June, 1969 (The Beatle Tapes.) Ten years after the Beatles broke up, John Lennon's guise disintegrated under the blast of Mark David Chapman's .38.
JOHN LENNON 1940-1980
NOTHING TO DO TO SAVE HIS LIFE
by
J. Kordosh
"...Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise 'cause all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot..."
—John Lennon to interviewer David Wigg, June, 1969 (The Beatle Tapes.)
Ten years after the Beatles broke up, John Lennon's guise disintegrated under the blast of Mark David Chapman's .38. Chapman, a Beatles fan, managed to take Beatlemania to the ultimate when he pulled that trigger four times. To Chapman, John Lennon was evidently a person to be taken very seriously.