John Lennon was just 40 years old when he ... Chapman, who bought the gun three months before the shooting, then traveled to New York City from Hawaii to carry it out, was denied parole for ...

Songwriter John Lennon's audacious claim in 1966 ... banned on the radio - they said it was about shooting up drugs. "But they were advertising guns and I thought it was so crazy that I made ...

John Lennon infamously declared in 1966 ... was banned on the radio – they said it was about shooting up drugs. But they were advertising guns and I thought it was so crazy that I made a song ...