John Lennon
The Lennon Diary 1969
New York City, USA: Roaring Fork Press, 1970
[unpaginated], 4 x 3.25", softcover
Edition size unknown
The Lennon Diary 1969 was published as part of Aspen #7 (The British Issue), which also included a flexi-disc of Yoko Ono performing the three-part track Song For John. Other works included in the box were two ‘souvenirs’ by Peter Blake, a sewing pattern by Ossie Clark, The Gay Atomic Coloring Book by Eduardo Paolozzi, concrete poetry by Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Notes on Rumpelstiltskin drawings by David Hockney.
The Lennon Diary 1969 is from an intended series of "Diaries of the Future”. It consists of a facsimile of a 1969 pocket diary, filled in November 1968, and not published until 1970.
Lennon's diary entries are more or less identical, with only a few variations: “Got Up, went to work, got home, watched telly. ” Occasionally he adds “fucked the wife“.
The title was reprinted in 1982, with a cover featuring a doodle by Lennon of he and Yoko. Both are scarce and hard to come by.
Lennon died on this day in 1980 - gunned down by Mark David Chapman outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York City that he shared with Ono.
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