John Lennon’s Final Months in 1980: Family and Music
John Lennon spent his last months rebuilding a life that had become quieter and more settled than many people expected. After years away from recording and tour...
The Dakota
The Dakota is the famed Upper West Side apartment building where John Lennon and Yoko Ono made their home in New York City. It matters both as a real residence and as the place most strongly associated with Lennon’s final years and the public memory of his life.
- Located at 1 West 72nd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there after returning to New York in the mid-1970s.
- It became the center of Lennon’s family life with Ono and their son Sean.
- The building is closely tied to Lennon’s death on December 8, 1980, outside its entrance.
- The Dakota has become an enduring landmark in Beatles and New York cultural history.