In 1971, John Lennon moved to New York to try to leave behind a life in which he was the constant center of attention and in which the press observed his every move. His nine years of residence in the metropolis, where he raised a family and gave free rein to his creativity, led him to fall in love with a city that nevertheless saw him die assassinated 40 years ago.
“He always said that New York is the best city in the world”, said a few weeks ago Sean Ono Lennon, the son of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, during an event in which the iconic Empire State Building paid tribute to the musician in which it would have been his 80th birthday. “As everybody knows, New York is a city where you don’t have to be born here to be a New Yorker, you just have to fall in love with her.
So my father was a New Yorker at heart, “he added shortly before lifting the lever that illuminated the skyscraper with a peace symbol on a blue background. Despite the fact that Lennon was born in the British city of Liverpool, during his stay in the Big Apple He proclaimed to the four winds his love for a metropolis he called home, where her second child was born, the fruit of her relationship with Yoko Ono, and where her messages of love and peace were solidified.
These are the places that marked his passage through New York:
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