Dear Yoko, John will never ever ever ever let you go

Or so he said in this beautiful late song of his. Mr Lennon was shot thirty years ago today. Here's a neat video of him practicing "Dear Yoko" in 1980.

Yoko's short and simple piece in the New York Times today ended:

They say teenagers laugh at the drop of a hat. Nowadays I see many teenagers sad and angry with each other. John and I were hardly teenagers. But my memory of us is that we were a couple who laughed.