"Yoko called me. She wanted me to help her take a picture of the glasses that John was wearing on the night that he was shot. She took out John's glasses and the glasses are broken and bloody. We were both crying and it was really horrible to see them. It's not just a picture of some bloody glasses, it's a horrible moment brought out in public and stated publicly. Why shouldn't she shared that? What can't she share that? That's what she saw.
- Bob Gruen, photographer
"I used a photo I took of John’s blood-stained glasses on the record cover. The record company called me and said the record shops would not stock the record unless I changed the cover. I didn't understand it. Why? They said it was in bad taste. I felt like a person soaked in blood coming into a living room full of people and reporting that my husband was dead, his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage – and people looking at me saying it was in bad taste to show the glasses to them. "I'm not changing the cover. This is what John is now," I said."
— Yoko Ono
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