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A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

In the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to record new music for the first time in years. Everyone was awestruck when Lennon dashed off ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’. Lennon was back in peak form, with his best songwriting since ‘Imagine’.

A DANGEROUSLY OBSESSED FAN

In the years after Lennon left the Beatles, becoming a solo artist and making a life with Yoko Ono in New York City, Mark David Chapman had become fixated on murdering his former hero. He was convinced that Lennon had squandered his talent and betrayed his fans. In December 1980, Chapman boarded a flight from Hawaii to New York with a handgun stowed in his luggage. He was never going home again.

A MURDER THAT STUNNED THE WORLD

Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is a true-crime drama about two men who changed history. One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day, and the other who ended the music with five pulls of a trigger.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades — the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels — and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.

What separation can do can be gleaned from the excerpt from the most famous band in rock history. When Paul McCartney officially bid farewell to the Beatles on April 10, 1970, four fates took four different courses. display George Harrison got along quite well with the end: the «quiet Beatle» had already settled in his Hare Krishna cosmos between playing sitar and Maharishi meditation. He produced a few hits, invented the modern benefit concert in 1971 with his New York Concert for Bangladesh, and financed the film «The Life of Brian» for his Monty Python buddies. Ringo Starr made nice songs and inconsequential films, became addicted to alcohol in the casinos of Monte Carlo, got the hang of it and is now the purified, likeable old star. Paul McCartney comforted himself in Scottish solitude with family and sheep breeding, but his creativity suffered despite the rural idyll with Linda under the guerrilla war with John Lennon. DISPLAY Real heroes tackle where they are needed Markus volunteered to test returnees on vacation And the? Lennon continued to act as a world peace activist, sounding «Give Peace a Chance» and placards «War is Over» everywhere. In his songs he saw himself as a musical advocate for oppressed workers («Working Class Hero») and women («Woman is the Nigger of the World»). That his poor man’s poetry didn’t really suit him, the multimillionaire, that he got involved with controversial figures like AJ Weberman from the «Rock Liberation Front» and militant IRA representatives, that most of the love and peace actions They were mainly used for concept art marketing for the newly wedded Yoko — at first it didn’t matter.

Many blamed Yoko Ono in particular for destroying the Beatles. Accusations that were equally justified and yet exaggerated: According to many, a woman, especially an Asian, had no place in the men’s bastion recording studio, not even in the revolutionary sixties. Yoko Ono was annoying there with her permanent presence, McCartney was also annoying with boss doors and perfectionism, Lennon with indolence («You can’t make music at ten in the morning»), Harrison and Starr dropped out in between. The Beatles just didn’t want to have to be the Beatles anymore. They were tired of composing, producing, filmmaking, world tours, press conferences and continuous interviews, screaming hordes of fans and a fishbowl life, grueling arguments about management, title rights and finances. But without the brilliant symbiosis with his alter ego McCartney, John only stumbled through the following decade that would end so tragically for him. The end of 2020 will mark two years for Lennon fans: he would have celebrated his 80th birthday on October 9 — if he hadn’t been murdered 40 years ago in New York.

The deranged Mark David Chapman fired five bullets at him shortly before 11 p.m. on December 8, 1980, and four hit him in the back. A police car took Lennon to nearby Roosevelt Hospital, and his death was determined at 11:07 p.m. Chapman had met him at the portal of the posh Dakota apartment building that afternoon and asked for an autograph. A snapshot of the two at that moment became an icon. Actually, as he later stated, he wanted to kill him there. But he changed his mind and waited well into the night in front of the building on the corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West. A TV interview sentence announced in 1966 had become Lennon’s undoing: his «We are now more popular than Jesus» caused angry Christians in the USA to burn Beatles records. Mark Chapman, 25, an outsider and Beatles admirer, had also found refuge for his psychoses in strict Christianity and now resented that sentence for his idol. Self-discovery of the seventies That it met John Lennon was as much a plan as it was chance. According to his notes and interviews, Chapman had a hit list, followed by Elizabeth Taylor, Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Johnny Carson. After the fatal shots at Lennon, Chapman read «The Catcher in the Rye» on the sidewalk and was arrested without resistance. He is in prison for life. John had only stepped back into the limelight in the fall of 1980, and after a long period of absence from the studio, his and Yoko’s album «Double Fantasy» was released at the end of November, accompanied by long interviews in «Playboy», «Rolling Stone», various radio stations and a photo session with Annie Leibovitz. Everything seemed to be on the right track. John was filmed taking a leisurely stroll with Yoko in Central Park or in a suit and tie at his favorite café, La Fortuna on Columbus Avenue. Well haired, but emaciated. Behind him lay a chaotic, bad, ambivalent decade: bed-ins and pacifism fuss, primal screaming therapies, in between ingenious songs, erratic experimental films and TV interviews, embarrassing porn selfies, other brilliant songs, unnerving appearances by his Plastic Ono Band with gruesome feedback and one Yoko crouching in white sacks, knitting silently or screeching for minutes. But, hey, it was the early seventies — the audience accepted everything that did away with the old without complaint. For John Lennon, the seventies only continued his journey of self-discovery, while the admired Beatle fled a broken childhood throughout his life. «Klaus, I’m so unhappy,» he confessed in 1967 — the Beatles were with «Sgt. Pepper «on their musical Olympus — the tears near his friend Klaus Voormann.

Lennon was always unhappy. Father Alfred, a ship steward and Hallodri, had left his wife and baby, mother Julia was overwhelmed with the boy and pushed him off to her older sister Mary (Mimi). She raised her bully nephew with discipline and severity. In fact, that gave him stability, Mimi at least was the only person who faithfully called John week after week, even in his deepest whiskey and cocaine crashes. When he was 17, his mother was run over by a car and died. The traumatized youngster became a cynic with a mother and father complex who gave himself up to an Indian guru and a dominant woman who was seven years older than him. Lennon sublimated his traumas with great songs, he played the clown at press conferences, bribed with quick-wittedness and sarcasm and fooled music critics with meaningless lyrics («I Am the Walrus», «Glass Onion»). But at some point this construct had to collapse. In the mid-seventies, Lennon had become the «Nowhere Man» he sang about in 1965. To this day, it is controversial whether Yoko just threw him out or whether she even recommended the affair to him — at least John Lennon hung out with his assistant May Pang in Los Angeles from the summer of 1973 to the end of 1974. In between he had sessions with producer Phil Spector, with whom he got drunk and pissed off until he ended the binge drinking with a pistol shot into the studio ceiling. A life in a fishbowl The infamous «Lost Weekend», which lasted one and a half years, was preserved for posterity insofar as May Pang played in the refrain of «No. 9 Dream «Was allowed to breath John’s name. Actually it wasn’t all that «lost»: some successful songs were written under the direction of the half-mad Spector. It also led to a reconciliation with Yoko: on October 9, 1975, John’s 35th birthday, son Sean was born. Lennon was now the superfather and househusband, who asked photographers to change diapers and bake bread in her apartment.

Shots crash through the night. They almost drown in the noise of New York, near the intersection of 72nd Street and Central Park West. Mark David Chapman pulls the trigger on the revolver five times. John Lennon collapses in the entrance of the apartment building «The Dakota». Chapman hit the former Beatles musician four times in the back. The hollow point bullets penetrate the shoulder and back, shredding the lungs and subclavian artery. A few moments earlier, on December 8th, 1980, Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono got out of the car to go to their apartment. «Imagine all the people living life in peace» — his message was charity, world peace. Now John Lennon is bleeding to death in the entrance of the «Dakota». And while the sirens wail, Mark David Chapman sits down on the sidewalk and calmly reads the book he is carrying in his coat pocket: Markus volunteered to test returnees on vacation When the police reached the scene, he signed the worn novel: «This is my testimony. Holden Caulfield» — the protagonist in the book. The officers handcuff Chapman to the patrol car. Then Yoko Ono comes to look at the plump man with the plump glasses who has just shot her great love. She doesn’t say a word. Mark David Chapman had adored the Beatles since childhood in Texas in the 1960s. Even when he slipped into drug addiction in his teens, the Liverpool musicians were a lifeline, especially frontman John Lennon and his life-affirming messages. At the age of 16, Chapman joined evangelical Christians — and the first cracks appeared in musical love.

Chapman got lost in the world of the «catcher in the rye». In this world-famous novel, J.D. In 1951 Salinger tells the story of the teenager Holden Caulfield, who wanders through New York and struggles with social norms and the behavior of his environment. Chapman read the socially critical book until he believed he and Caulfield were one; like his hero in a novel, he must resist the lies of the «Phonies», the swindlers and dazzlers. He attempted suicide and became delusional. He toyed with the idea of ​​renaming himself Holden Caulfield and later signed documents with the name of his hated idol Lennon — a person with no identity of his own, an empty vessel in search of content. A brief stop gave him another parallel with Lennon: his relationship with an American woman of Japanese origin who Chapman married in the late 1970s. But even his wife Gloria could not free him from his gloomy head prison. Autograph for a murderer While Mark David Chapman was on the ground, John Lennon was enthroned above the New York skyline — in 1977 the photos were taken showing the pop star on the roof of the Dakota building in Manhattan. Chapman later said that these photos in particular confirmed his decision: John Lennon had to die. «I remember staring at the pictures and saying, ‘What if I kill him?'» He recalled. In Chapman’s bizarre world, the ex-Beatle was a traitor: in the song «Imagine» he had renounced his possessions. Now Chapman saw nothing but a multimillionaire, someone who marketed hope — and made fun of religion. One of those liars, as they were pilloried in his favorite novel «The Catcher in the Rye». In October 1980, Chapman quit his job as a security guard, bought a revolver and flew to New York. After going to the cinema to see the film «Ordinary People» and talking to his wife on the phone, he initially gave up on his plans. «My anger was defeated, the volcano sealed.» But on December 6th, Chapman traveled to the east coast again, rented a YMCA, bought the new Lennon album «Double Fantasy» and began to watch the star’s apartment house. When Lennon’s nanny returned from walking five-year-old Sean on the morning of December 8th, she found Chapman at the door. «Beautiful boy,» Chapman quoted a lyrics from Lennon and shook hands with the child. A few hours later he met his former idol. But Lennon greeted the supposed fan cheerfully, signed the album he had brought with him and asked if there was anything else he could do for him. The photographer Paul Goresh captured the scene (see photo gallery). «Lennon was just a picture on a cover» Mark David Chapman remained completely perplexed in front of the «Dakota» until the couple returned from the recording studio shortly before 11 p.m. What happened next, he told journalist Barbara Walters in 1992: «John got out of the car and I heard this voice that said, ‘Do it, do it, do it.’ It was probably my own voice. » Later, the murderer, sentenced to life imprisonment, repeatedly sought the public. «I was a nobody,» said Chapman. «Until I killed the greatest person on earth.» A murder as a free ride to sad glory. Chapman gave showmaster Larry King an interview, tried to get the signed album back, appealed to Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono. «I didn’t kill a real person. Lennon was just a picture on an album cover. He wasn’t real.»

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