#8dec1980

Naked John alert... 

[P]hotographer Annie Leibovitz recalls how John Lennon wanted Yoko Ono on the cover with him for a December 1980 issue. At the last minute Ono didn’t want to take her clothes off. 

“So when they lay down together and John was nude, curled up against her clothed, he looked much more vulnerable,” Leibovitz says. “That was the last picture of him. Several hours later, John was murdered. Dec. 8, 1980.”

[The story of the last photo taken of John Lennon, which became a Rolling Stone cover after his death, is told in the documentary Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, Johanna Schnellers, Special to The Star, 5th November 2017]