documents illustrate how the government was focused on throwing john lennon out of the country and it was that 1968 british drug conviction that was one of the tools. there is nothing john and yoko could do to this country that could do it any harm at all. he had the media and the american public squarely behind him. this was a losing battle that the government was fighting but it still carried on a very long time. still immerse in their legal battle, john and yoko traded downtown for uptown in 1973. they move inside the new york legendary dakota building situated at the corner of west 72nd street in central park west. and their new neighbors included actress lauren becall and composer leonard bernstein. are despite outward appearances all was not well in the lennon s marriage. there was an impasse between john and yoko.
amsterdam hotel room where they had a bed in for peace. they held a second one in montreal two months late. sitting here in bed because it is not violent. it is an example of nonviolence. a lot of people thought you and john did some crazy things,. we thought it was normal. and when the 60ss ended so did it the beatles. the band was falling apart by 1969. the final album was let it be in 1970. for john and yoko there was no looking back. when we return, john and yoko decide to settle here in new york city. but some people in the u.s. government were not happy about that decision.
had won a great victory and the great victory was a victory between god and satan. it was basically satan saying kill him, kill him, kill him and god saying don t. meanwhile, john lennon continued to work on his comeback. the double fantasy album was released on november 17. those songs were his statement to us about his state of mind, about his vision, about his life. it did get a mixed reaction. it was a kinder sweeter john lennon that maybe the critics weren t expecting. you re looking at pictures photographer allen tannenbaum took of john and yoko in their favorite spot in central park november 21, 1980. it was very casual. the pictures for the most part were candid and they were enjoying being with each other and joking around and then we walked back to the dakota and i did a shot of them with the
traveled to bermuda and he had an acoustic guitar and boom bock box and recorded songs and was going back and forth with yoko on the phone and they were inspiring each other. he was as prolific as he had been in his life. i didn t know what came over me. i didn t know what possessed me. it s rock and roll devil, you know. a reinvigorated lennon decided that time had come to get back in the game and entered new york city s hit factory recording studio on august 7, 1980. there is a big veiled secrecy about the session. he didn t know if it was going to work and wasn t completely sure and that would be a big embarrassment if it was a big press to do and the record didn t come out. these exclusive unpublished photos document lennon s first day in a recording studio in nearly five years. the sessions proved to be quite
you didn t know who he was? no. john felt that he was imprisoned by the beatles. this is why when met yoko who was a real artist, a conceptual artist it hit him so hard because yoko did not give a damn what anybody thought of her and said to john be the same as me. i was so paranoid and it was 18 months or a year before we even got near to each other physically. but when they did get together in 1968, they became inseparable. that same year the couple was arrested in london for cannabis possession. although the charge against yoko was dropped john plead guilty. years later would come back to haunt them both in new york city. still not seeing much of his five-year-old son, john divorced cynthia and married yoko in march of 1969. their honeymoon took mays in an