It’s been nearly three decades since Mark Chapman fatefully fired his gun
outside New York's Dakota building, but the fever surrounding the memory of the
murdered John Lennon shows no sign of cooling. As one quarter of The Beatles, one half of the
Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership and one of the
most charismatic figures in modern popular music, the nostalgia and
adulation which he engendered places him high on the list of most
influential musicians in living memory. There will always be a thirst
for Lennon-related information and that means that the forthcoming
exhibition in the NYC Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex, “John Lennon:
The New York Years,” is a guaranteed hot-ticket. Exhibits include letters
documenting Lennon’s battle against deportation from America,
handwritten lyrics and most controversially, a paper bag containing the
bloody clothes from the night he was gunned down. Yoko
Ono admitted “It was hard to include,” but added that it was
“important for people to see that, and for people to understand what
violence is about." In the exhibition, a poignant placard containing a
quote from his widow presents the bloody bag to a world which still
mourns their idol: “John was king of the world. John who had everything
any man could ever want came back to me in a brown paper bag in the
end.”
The exhibition is open now and is expected to be open until the fall.
--SoundUnwound
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