John Lennon was killed outside his New York City apartment 43 years ago. Here's what the killer has said about his motivation on December 8, 1980.

John Lennon, who rose to unimaginable fame first as one of the Beatles, then as a solo songwriter and activist, was shot and killed outside of his home in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980.

The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday.

John Lennon said that he was "not about to get myself shot" in a phone call with drummer Jim Keltner eight years before he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman.

Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in 1980, while Harrison died in 2001 following a lung cancer diagnosis. The ...

John & Yoko follows John Lennon and Yoko Ono at a curious point in their lives: He has left the Beatles, is planning a ...