On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician
John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and
fatally wounded in the archway of The Dakota,
his residence in New York City. His killer was
Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who
travelled from Hawaii.
Chapman said he was angered by Lennon's lifestyle
and public statements, especially his much-publicized
remark about the Beatles being "more popular
than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs
God and Imagine.