New Lennon Exhibit

I'll forevermore be a Beatles fan. It's part of who I am. When they split I bought every solo album Lennon or McCartney put out. David took me to see the Concert for Bangladesh film. I think I'd read every book about them at the time.

A new John Lennon exhibition will include the clothes he was wearing on the night he was shot dead - still soaked in his dried blood.

His widow Yoko Ono received a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the medical examiner in December 1980, when the former Beatle was gunned down in New York City aged 40.

The 76-year-old has left the clothes in the bag, and this is on display alongside Lennon's guitars, letters and other personal effects.

'It was hard to include,' Ono said. 'And I thought it might be criticised as well.'

Ultimately, Ono said, she thought it was important to let people see the effects of gun violence.

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