John Lennon couldn't have known he'd only live to be 40 years old. And had he not been shot outside his home — New York City's famous Dakota Apartments — on Dec. 8, 1980, he might've lived to see his ...

Throughout the conversation, John Lennon would mention little things that Yoko Ono had taught him or told him, share an experience he had with Sean, or mention his former bandmates in passing. Since ...

"I remember everything like it was yesterday," recalls Jay Hastings, who worked at the Dakota while Lennon lived in the N.Y.C. building Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.