Inside John Lennon’s last days in NYC before his 1980 death
rock ’n’ roll photographer Bob Gruen, and invited him to the Record Plant studio in Midtown Manhattan. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, were working on a new song there, called “Walking on Thin Ice.”Gruen had shot the iconic photo of Lennon wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “New York City,” and they had established a friendship where the singer would regularly ask Gruen to photograph him.It was Friday afternoon, Dec.