John Lennon News
With a Little Help From my Friends
April 1980
According to the New York Daily News, the March 21 edition, for their anniversary, John gave Yoko a diamond heart and had 500 gardenias flown in. A surprised and pleasedYoko countered with a vintage Rolls-Royce.
Lennon recording rumors still abound. Even one of the doormen at the Dakota thinks he's up to something. He has been working in his studio apartment and has been out of town in mid-April, again, supposedly to record somewhere. Hmm.
Rita Hanson, who just got back from vacationing in New York, told us a few interesting tidbits. One of New York's tour buses goes right by the Dakota, and she saw Sean from the bus window. She also saw John and Yoko returning from somewhere on April 15, at 11:20am, looking very tired and talking with one of the doormen.
Rita learned a few things. Comusako, who looks after Sean, quit because she wanted to go back to Japan. Sean and the nanny had a near accident with a taxi. So now, John rarely uses a cab. It's always the silver limo now, whether Sean's going to the park or to the store.
John's seventh-floor apartment faces Central Park, the whole floor on that side, but also the courtyard, which is where the kitchen is. John has three pianos, two white and one black. The doorman Rita talked to helped do some moving and said he saw a whole wall full of pictures sent to them of him,Yoko, and Sean. Also, there's a white room where you can feel pure, but you can't go in without shoes. Every single thing in the room is white. The decor is modern, and they have oriental knick-knacks. Sean has a playroom with swings coming down from the ceiling, a slide, and monkey bars. The floor has two to four inches of foam in case he falls.
Whenever traveling, Sean and the nanny always go separately, never with John and Yoko. They go ahead or behind on a different flight. John still gets an enormous pile of mail daily, like over 100 letters. John, at the time Rita saw him in mid-April, was wearing a blue jacket, jeans, his hair Shaggy and almost shoulder-length, and a tapered beard. He was slender and very much in a hurry. She also heard that Sean was pulling out of school because they weren't satisfied, whatever that means.
John gets up early on Sunday mornings to get the Sunday paper. Also at the time she was there, a film was being made at the Dakota in the morning, something to do with a janitor.
Remember the postcard we mentioned that our friend Beth and Mary got a while ago in the last newsletter? They sent him photos they'd taken around Liverpool. The postcard you see above is the result, by the way, after getting that card, they did send him a photo of the art college, and he sent another thank you note in response.
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