These color pictures, some rare, that captured John Lennon on streets in 1980. Several pictures were the last hours of his life. ...

9:00 A. M... Dakota Building... New York City...John Lennon, celebrate his last birthday in life...His 40 years, along with Sean, that day he turned 5 years old...For such an occasion Yoko Ono hired a

Lolita's heart-shaped glasses, Kanye's shutter shades, and so much more.

“C’mon, Mister-all-the-way-from-Baltimore, you can do this,” Stuart Zolotorow remembers Lennon telling him.

“John Lennon 1966 the #Beatles”

John Lennon, filming the Paperback Writer and Rain promo.

John Lennon, 1966.

Photographs from November 1980 by Allan Tannenbaum