MONEY couldn’t buy him love — but John Lennon still looks like he is coining it in.
The singer is going from Penny Lane to quids in as he is immortalised in a collectable coin.
John Lennon is pictured on the coin alongside the title of his 1971 single Imagine as part of The Royal Mint’s Music Legends series[/caption]
The Give Peace A Chance singer was married to artist Yoko Ono, now 92, until his death in 1980[/caption]
The Give Peace A Chance singer, who was married to artist Yoko Ono, 92, until his death in 1980, is pictured on the coin alongside the title of his 1971 single Imagine as part of The Royal Mint’s Music Legends series.
It is being released to coincide with what would have been The Beatles star’s 85th birthday.
On December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot and killed by a fan at his residence in Manhattan, New York.
Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife Yoko Ono.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Roosevelt Hospital, after getting four major gunshot wounds.
A memorial close to where he was shot, called Strawberry Fields, is located in Central Park.
Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of Lennon and was sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment.
He has remained in prison ever since, having been denied parole ten times due to campaigns against his release after he became eligible in 2000.
Chapman, a Beatles fan who had idolised Lennon, allegedly started planning to kill him three months before he committed the murder.
He turned against Lennon after making his religious conversion, and was angry about Lennon’s well-publicised 1966 comment that Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”
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