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Tearful Yoko Ono defends John Lennon murder clothes exhibit

A tearful Yoko Ono has defended the inclusion of a paper bag containing the bloody clothes of murdered husband - singer John Lennon in a new exhibition.

Ono received the items from the medical examiner in December 1980, when the 40-year-old former Beatle was gunned down in New York City.

"It was hard to include," Ono said. "And I thought it might be criticised as well."

But ultimately, Ono said she thought it was important to let people see the effects of gun violence.

The Lennon items are part of a new exhibit at New York’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex. John Lennon: The New York Years, includes Lennon’s famous New York City T-shirt, his upright piano from his Dakota apartment, and a posthumous 1981 Grammy Award for the couple’s album, Double Fantasy...
Read entire article at Liverpool Daily Post (UK)