The final day of Lennon’s life began with breakfast at Café La Fortuna with Yoko Ono, his spouse of 11 years, and a haircut at Viz-à-Viz. Then it was again to the Dakota, the famed Central Park West constructing the place he and Ono had lived since 1973, for an at-home session with photographer Annie Leibovitz, who was snapping the couple for Rolling Stone.
“John got here to the door in a black leather-based jacket,” Leibovitz recalled, per Smithsonian Journal, “and he had his hair slicked again. I used to be thrown a bit of bit by it. He had that early Beatle look.”
She knew RS editor-in-chief Jann Wenner needed her to seize Lennon solo, however the musician insisted it’s him and his spouse. “I wish to be with her,” Leibovitz recalled him saying.
The photograph shoot resulted within the iconic image of a totally bare Lennon curled round a completely clothed Ono (who refused to undress), the couple mendacity on the plush white carpet of their front room.
Leibovitz informed RS many years later, “I keep in mind peeling the Polaroid and him it and saying, ‘That is it. That is our relationship.'”
As an alternative of being the duvet picture for the publication’s deliberate unfold heralding the couple’s album Double Fantasy, it served as the duvet of their Jan. 22, 1981, Lennon tribute problem.
