Lennon claimed he wrote the first two lines on separate acid trips.

The album was produced by fellow Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda, who Lennon claimed was his inspiration for the album.

There has been various speculation as to the subject of Lennon's affair: his friend Pete Shotton suggested a journalist of their acquaintance, possibly Maureen Cleave ( though Cleave has said that in all her encounters with Lennon there was " no pass "), while writer Philip Norman claimed that the woman was model Sonny Drane, the first wife of Beatles photographer Robert Freeman.

The album was based largely on loops and featured heavy use of horns and flutes and deliberately moved away from the bands guitar sound as Power claimed the band " wanted to come back with something that feels fresh and enticing " and described the material as groovier and talked of having a desire of " combining this sort of Marley and funkadelic stuff or Sly and the Family that I ’ ll get into as much as I get into Townshend and Lennon ".

Six weeks before the show premiered on August 12, the sisters were forced to deal with the shooting death of their father, William Lennon, by a stalker named Chet Young, who believed himself married to Peggy and claimed their father stood in the way and had to be eliminated.

It has been incorrectly claimed that the first use of ADT was on the first half of Lennon ’ s vocal track on " Tomorrow Never Knows ", but in fact this vocal track features manual double tracking.

Lennon claimed to know the identity of Harrigan during their Melody Maker feud in 1972.

" Both Lennon and producer George Martin have claimed credit for the idea ; Lennon said: Emerick confirms Lennon's creative accident, but Martin remembers it differently:

In the film Let It Be, Lennon jokingly claimed he had written " Everybody Had a Hard Year " the night before.

Lennon claimed that he wrote the song about himself.

McCartney claimed it was dedicated to his wife-to-be Linda Eastman, though the lyrics ( e. g.: " you and I have memories / longer than the road that stretches out ahead " or " you and me chasing paper / getting nowhere ") sounded to author Ian MacDonald like they were actually addressing Lennon.

Lennon said in a Rolling Stone interview that he used the humorous title as something of a defence mechanism, so that if anyone criticised the song, he could write it off as a parody ; otherwise he claimed to be sincere about the song's content.

It has been said that, in addition to the obvious reference mentioned above, the " Warm Gun " could also be due to Lennon's sexual desire for Yoko Ono and also to his well-documented problems with heroin at the time of the recording of the White Album ( in this case, the gun being a loaded syringe, although Lennon claimed to have snorted, rather than injected, heroin during the time that he used the drug ).

Gallagher later claimed that Lennon had threatened to shoot him on sight and engaged him in several gunfights including an incident in December 1909 when Lennon wounded him in a gunfight between the two.

Goldman also claimed that when Lennon started making music again in 1980 following a long hibernation, he was not immune to Manhattan's cocaine-fueled disco scene.

Goldman further asserted that this turn of events was caused, not only by Lennon's own native laziness and dependence on strong women throughout his life to manage his affairs ( other than his marriage to Cynthia, in which he took a dominant role ), but through the instigation and manipulation of Yoko Ono, who Goldman claimed in the book was jealous of Lennon and saw his fame as competition for her own musical ambitions.

" However, in a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon claimed that he came up with these lines as a comment on Christianity which he was " opposed to at the time ".

The song's composer, though, is not in question: McCartney claimed the song as described above, and Lennon said in an interview with Playboy that McCartney wrote it.

The song was written mainly by McCartney, though John Lennon claimed in an interview with Playboy that his major contribution was the middle eight section (" A love like ours / Could never die / As long as I / Have you near me ").

In 1980 John Lennon claimed that he was responsible for the inclusion of " Old Brown Shoe " as the B-side of " The Ballad of John and Yoko " single.

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono by Jack Mitchell ( photographer ) | Jack Mitchell, 1980

John Lennon retired from music to become a househusband caring for their child, until shortly before his murder in December 1980, which Ono witnessed at close range.

In early 1980, Lennon heard Lene Lovich and The B-52's ' " Rock Lobster " in a nightclub, and it reminded him of Ono's musical sound.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in the studio working on Ono's song Walking on Thin Ice.

John Lennon was shot outside of his home in New York City on the night of December 8, 1980.

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Although " Eight Days a Week " and " What You're Doing " are well regarded by many fans, they were regarded negatively by their creators: McCartney dismissed " What You're Doing " as " a bit of filler ... Maybe it's a better recording than it is a song ...", while Lennon referred to " Eight Days a Week " in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine as " lousy ".

In a 1980 interview, Lennon acknowledged that the Maharishi was the inspiration for the song: " I just called him ' Sexy Sadie '.

In an interview in Playboy magazine in 1980, Lennon described it as "... a better version of ' Lady Madonna '.

Lennon explained much of the song to Playboy in 1980:

Lennon talked about the song in 1980: " I was different all my life.

Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon expressed dissatisfaction with the final version of the song, saying it was " badly recorded " and going so far as to accuse McCartney of subconsciously sabotaging the recording.

Although Lennon once said of the song that he " wasn't proud of that " and " I was just going through the motions ," in 1980 he described it as " pure, like a painting, a pure watercolour.

Nilsson was profoundly affected by the death of John Lennon on December 8, 1980.

The building is widely known as the Home of Beatle John Lennon from 1973 to 1980 as well as the location of his murder.

In a 1980 interview, John Lennon stated that he and Paul McCartney happened to be watching the show together at Lennon's apartment in New York and considered walking down to the SNL studio " for a gag " but were " too tired ".

Included in the 57th to 59th Street transition area are the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where John Lennon died in 1980 after being shot, and John Jay College.

In December 1980 Nightingale faced the daunting task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of John Lennon ( who had himself appeared on the show in 1975 ).

The film marks the passing decades with newsreels about Vietnam -- corresponding to the tragic combat death of one young man that Holland guided through a stint as marching-band drummer -- and the death of John Lennon in 1980.