The official story is well told. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were mixing a Yoko Ono song on the evening of the 8th December 1980. At roughly 10.30pm they both exited the recording studio and got in a long grey limo to head home to the Dakota.
The writer Fenton Bresler wrote that John Lennon suggested before they left, that he wanted to stop off at the Stage…