stable family life. like the album's aptly titled first single, lennon was starting over. ♪ our life together >> in his last interview on the day he died, he seemed to speak for his generation. >> i'm singing to them. i hope the young kids like it, as well, but i'm talking to the people who grew up with he. i'm saying he i am, how are you? how is your relationship going? wasn't the '70s a drag? let's make the '80s good because it's up to us to make what we can out of it. it's not out of our control. i still believe in love, peace, positive thinking. >> on december 8, 1980, just as john lennon was launching a new chapter in his life, an obsessed former fan, mark david chapman, waiting in the shadows here at the dakota, ended it all in a hail of bullets. it was a shocking death. for his family and friends.