John Lennon knows a thing or two about obsessive fandom. Ten years after the breakup of The Beatles, the

famed musician from Liverpool has to run the gauntlet of Fab Four devotees camped outside his Manhattan

apartment building on a daily basis. On December 8th 1980, Mark David Chapman is amongst them, but when

Lennon emerges, instead of producing an album for him to sign or a notepad for him to autograph, Chapman

draws a gun and shoots one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century four times in the back.

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