On this day in 1980, John Lennon was shot dead as he walked into his home at the Dakota building in New York City. The Woolton-raised former Beatle was gunned down by Mark David Chapman ...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono pictured backstage at Top of the Pops in 1970 Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, has apologised to the late Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, 40 years after his death.