In Memory: John Lennon

[honeychile]

I remembered. I'm wearing black today. The world is a little less creative with the death of John Lennon.

I know a woman who spent several hours at the Dakota in August of 1980, wearing a sexy sundress & Candies. She actually got into the Dakota, and the Security Guard (after telling her that it would be hours before he came back, and then he'd go back to the studio) let her leave a letter to John & Yoko. She said that it was a very nice letter, thanking him for the joy he had brought through his music, and told them that if they're ever in Pittsburgh, let her know.

After Double Fantasy was released, and John was killed, a book on the day to day events in the last year of John's life came out. If you listen to the very end of "Starting Over" you hear "Love Airlines, Flight 12 - Pittsburgh" sounding like it's coming over a PA system. My friend visited the Dakota on August 12 - the day that they did the final cut of "Starting Over"!

So - many Beatles experts feel that was John's way of acknowledging her message!