• When John and I were sayig, "The world is one, one world,'it's almost like fate told us, 'Ok, prove it. Prove it with you8r life.'And that's what John did. At the time of his death, the world definetly became one." That's Yoko Ono in Rolling Stone less than a year after John Lennon's Murder. In a series of candid conversations, Ono adderessed her suicide attempts ("As a teenager I was always trying to cut my wrists or take pills") and her and John's drug use ("When John took drugs, he took them in extremes, and that was true of me, too"). For the cover itself, though, she insisted on wearing sunglasses."Maybe it was something private,"says photographer Annie Leibovitz. "Maybe she wanted to stay in mourning , and that was like wearing black. I thought the cover shot was very simple and strong, and I didn't think it needed anything more than that." Leibovitz had photographed Lennon and Ono on the day Lennon was shot, so returning to photograph Ono by herself and with their son, Sean, had an obvious poignance. Other photos that ran with the story show Ono without her sunglasses, both in bed with Sean (who is standing on his bed) and in a spare and direct portrait with her eyes closed. "Annie was one of us,"Ono says about her and Lennon's long relationship with the photographer, who first worked with them in 1970. "We had a mutual respect for each other. At the time of this cover I didn't have much distance. I was in a daze, but it helped that it was Annie who took the picture, rather than a stranger. As I look at it now, you can see my sorrow, even through the dark glasses. You can also see a determination that I am going to Show myself as I am, rather than with a lot of makeup."

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