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For 40 years Yoko Ono has kept a silent dignity in the face of global vilification meted out by legions of Beatles fans. But today, in an emotional interview, she reveals the last words her husband John Lennon uttered moments before he was gunned down on a New York street in 1980 by Mark Chapman.

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TechnologyExpert
June 10, 2007, 1:16 a.m.
"I said 'shall we go and have dinner before we go home?' and John said 'No, let's go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep'," Ono, 73, told Kirsty Young on 'Desert Island Discs'.
Young then asked Ono if Lennon had said anything after he was shot, to which she replied in almost a whisper: "No."
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amazed
June 10, 2007, 2:44 p.m.
Julian is Cynthia's son, not Yoko. John and Yoko's son is Sean.
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bill-smith
June 10, 2007, 3:10 p.m.
Julian is John Lennon's son from his first marriage, not his son with Yoko Ono. John and Yoko's son is Sean Lennon.
Oh, and by the way, Julian Lennon had a top 40 hit in the 1980's. How many have you had Spanky?
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MacR
June 10, 2007, 3:59 p.m.
Ah, Julian was not John and Yoko's kid. He was John's but Yoko and John had Sean. Julian was from his first marrigae.
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jock
June 10, 2007, 4:28 p.m.
Well, Lennon and Ono's son is SEAN LENNON. He is a talented musician-but he does not seem interested in following in his father's larger than life footsteps. JULIAN LENNON is John's son with his first wife Cynthia. And I am a fan of Yoko's art myself. She is a brilliant artist in her own right,as was her husband. Julian's music I can live without.
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mr_roboto
June 10, 2007, 9:10 p.m.
But Julian is not their off-spring. He had Julian with Cynthia. Sean is the off-spring of John and Yoko. Julian Lennon did have that one rather catchy song in the 1980s.
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Natureboy
June 10, 2007, 11:03 p.m.
"Lennon and Ono have got to be the weirdest two people that ever lived."
They couldn't compete with Ron and Nancy on that basis. Anybody who slips the keilbasa to a woman he calls "mommy" is one troubled soul.
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blinkers
June 11, 2007, 12:37 a.m.
Yoko Ono had nothing to do with Julian Lennon's birth, who's mother was John's first wife. You are confusing him with Sean, born much later, to John and Yoko.
But sadly, yes -- neither of them had one-fifth the talent of their Father.
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jdhatl
June 11, 2007, 5:44 a.m.
Sean Lennon is their child, and he's one of the nicest people I ever met.
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albionperfides
June 10, 2007, 3:38 p.m.
Alfalfa
That's your opinion and little else. BTW what did your son do?
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irishpatty
June 10, 2007, 4:41 p.m.
say what you want Yoko, i missing John
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evelyna
June 10, 2007, 5:58 p.m.
If he would have never married her he wouldn't have been shot. Wierdness breeds even more wierdernest.
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Hobe
June 10, 2007, 6:20 p.m.
' Yoko breaks silence to reveal Lennon's last words'
Does anybody really care what YOKO says??
The music, well, isn't all relative???
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ningyo
June 10, 2007, 6:36 p.m.
yoko has really gotten a bad rap in the press..she doesnt come off well on camera at all as well as being blamed for breaking up the beatles..that aside i find a lot of her art very quirky and interesting..some not so much--her music is very japanese which most western ears have a hard time appreciating..very atonal..no melody..i dont care much for it--but the shrieking screaming sort of singing is very popular there..as well as hong kong--i had the pleasure of meeting her several times years ago and she is very different in person than her public image here--very pleasent ,easy to talk to,not some weird devil woman--i dont believe she ever wanted to be or understood what being mrs lennon was to so many--she came from a very private wealthy family and was very successful on her own raising cattle--sean used to rattle around the j-pop world some..ciba mato..shonen knife..havent heard anything from him in some time tho--and what could possibly motivate someone to sink this story??
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NelsonR
June 10, 2007, 7:26 p.m.
John Lennon was ahead of his time and knew the pitfalls of Nationalistic ideology. It pervades all nations and Bush is the point man for this thought. Yes, its been a long time since his murder but the conservatives have benefitted. Ongoing deaths, wars and misery is a human need, I guess so what is, is.
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GOBUCKEYES
June 10, 2007, 11:47 p.m.
OKAY....for a true fan it is BEATLES not BEETLES. Geez, at least learn to spell. Yoko couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and the kid is worse. When John died so did the music.
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navyrunt93
June 11, 2007, 12:17 a.m.
the woman is nuts. She and john were both very hypocritical in what they preached and what they did. She only has the star status because of her marriage but if you read up on her she slept around. Because of her wealthy background, she had the upbringing of thinking she is better then others.
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aceofspades1
June 11, 2007, 12:59 a.m.
I can't open the story - just what did it say John's last words were?
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Starbuck
June 11, 2007, 1:35 a.m.
It's funny. You can always count on the Neo-Cons to come busting out on any dead "percieved" progressives to hammer home their insidious dogma. They're always eager to discredit anyone who hoped for a better future that doesn't involve murder, money, or religious conflict. Sad, sad people. To them, everyone's hypocritical. There are no good peple to them, only hypocrites in disguise.