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#JohnLennon at a photo shooting by Bob Gruen of the rooftop of The Dakota Hotel, 1974

After years of writing picture-perfect pop songs with The Beatles, John Lennon used the first album of his solo career to write with painful honesty about the forces that brought him to that point in his life. Much of 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was devoted to exorcising personal demons such as his troubled family […]

These color pictures, some rare, that captured John Lennon on streets in 1980. Several pictures were the last hours of his life. ...

It was August 29, 1974, midday, and John Lennon, nearly 34 at the time, was up on the roof of his rented East 52nd Street penthouse. He had been at the Record Plant all week, mixing Walls and Bridges, his fifth solo album, and generally struggling to correct course after his first commercial failure (1972’s collection of mostly protest songs, Some Time in New York City). He was also recovering from his year and a half of carousing, most notoriously in Hollywood, while estranged from his…

John Lennon with Assistant May Pang. Johns hand gives the impression of photoshopping?

A group of eight photographs of John Lennon taken by Bob Gruen for the Walls and Bridges album and publicity campaign. These prints were produced in

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