Yoko Ono tweeted a picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses Thursday in an effort to bring attention to the issue of gun violence. The Beatles legend's wife paired the picture of the blood-spattered spectacles with the following statement: The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. ...
(Image credit: @yokoono/Twitter) Yoko Ono joined the U.S. gun debate when she tweeted a picture of the blood-stained glasses her husband, John Lennon, was wearing when he died. Lennon, one of the Beatles, died in 1980 after being shot in the back four times at the couple's New Yo...
She framed this as an act of demystification—“This is what John is now,” she said pointedly—but it was just as easy to see the bloody glasses as the presentation of a relic, the mortal remains of a pop-cultural saint. The world might have imagined what Yoko Ono in mourning would...
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the driver's seat was Lennon, looking much as he does in the colour photograph included with the Beatles' 1968 White Album: faded blue Levi's jacket, white T-shirt and jeans, dirty white sneakers, his shoulder-length hair parted in the middle, and wearing the now famous "granny glasses"...
“The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience,” Ono writes. “After 40 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him. ‘Imagine all the people living life in peace.'” Along with the note, the post features a well-known photo of Lennon’s bloody eyeglasses in front ...
By August Brown