Yoko Ono: A 1992 Interview
Paul Zollo, 'Songwriters on Songwriting' (rev. edn, Da Capo), 2003
IT WAS A SAD and a little spooky to walk into the Dakota on this dark and rainy winter night, an evening not unlike the one on which John Lennon was killed here twelve years earlier. It seemed like no time had passed since I stood here in shocked silence with hundreds of others on the terrible day after, the old iron gate woven with flowers. And now I was back at that same gate, but this time with an appointment to go inside and talk to Yoko. To enter the old building, one passes through the bleak guard's station, a gloomy room made more mournful by the recognition that this was where John staggered and fell, before being taken to the hospital.
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