John Lennon's collaborator Jack Douglas revealed hair-raising premonitions the late The Beatles member had in the years leading to his death.
The terrifying murder of Lennon is being revisited in the AppleTV+ documentary series, "John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial." It includes the details and findings of the most thoroughly researched examination of the singer's death, "which shocked and saddened the world."
Before his death on December 8, 1980, his collaborator reportedly saw him for the last time looking "so happy."
John Lennon Predicted His Death?
In an exclusive interview with People for the magazine's latest issue, Douglas revisited the time he saw Lennon following their usual work in the studio. He revealed that, at that time, Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, stayed at Record Plant in New York City to record her "Walking on Thin Ice."
The collaborator saw Lennon for the last time when the latter headed to the elevator and told Douglas he would see him again the next morning.
But it never happened.
Mark David Chapman killed the musician a few hours later as he was triggered when he commented that "The Beatles were more popular than Jesus" in one of his interviews. The suspect admitted to planning the murder for months and waiting for the singer at The Dakota.
Lennon was rushed to the Roosevelt Hospital but succumbed on Dec. 8, 1980, at 11:15 p.m. after the bullets shredded his internal organs, although his doctors tried to revive him for 20 minutes.
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According to Douglas, Lennon had premonitions about his death in his final years.
"He would say things like, 'I might be gone soon.' He would say, 'When I die, it's going to be bigger than Elvis.' And I'd say, 'Stop talking like that,'" he continued. "He insisted on journals being kept for every moment, everything being documented, me placing microphones all over the studio so that everything could be recorded."
Douglas acknowledged how Lennon seemingly had a feeling something wrong was coming "almost supernaturally about things."
His wife learned about the news and ran to the studio to tell him what happened. They drove to the hospital, where they remained until the doctors pronounced Lennon's death.
He helped Ono hold a private memorial service for Lennon in the studio two days after the murder.
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